Whitney Tilson Was As Surprised As You Are To Learn That He Was Long Netflix On The Way Up

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NFLX is up 75% year to date so you probably assumed that Whitney Tilson had gotten rid of it sometime last year. You were not alone:

We thought it was a little strange when Whitney Tilson and Glenn Tongue’s hedge fund T2 Partners’ latest 13F came out earlier this week and Netflix wasn’t included.

We sent the hedge fund manager an email to find out why and there’s now a corrected version of the fund’s regulatory filing out.

It turned out, it was just an error.

As of December 31, 2011, T2 Partners had combination of 89,771 shares and 81,000 call options in Netflix, according to the updated 13F.

Here’s Why Whitney Tilson’s 13-F Didn’t Have Netflix In It When It Came Out [BI]

Comments (11)

  1. 1
    Posted by Guy with A.D.D. | February 16, 2012 at 4:34 PM

    Who are you? And what have you done with Matt!?

  2. 2
    Posted by Spencer | February 16, 2012 at 4:55 PM

    I'm calling bullshit somewhere. After a terrible, you forget to tell people about the one time you actually call it right?

  3. 3
    Posted by Guest | February 16, 2012 at 5:02 PM

    Matt and the Sports Book Manager are trading places today

  4. 4
    Posted by Guest | February 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM

    Yeah wtf is going on here. No explanation is given in referenced article.

  5. 5
    Posted by Guy with A.D.D. | February 16, 2012 at 5:42 PM

    I bet John Paulson is digging through the holdings of his "Advantage Plus" fund right now hoping he forgot somethign too

  6. 6
    Posted by 2_Small_2_Bail | February 16, 2012 at 5:44 PM

    Whitney's actually choked about this…I'm positive there was a piece in the last year where he stated that they "hoped the stock would go lower so they could add to the position." Only guy on the street that yells at his monitor for his long positions to go lower.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | February 16, 2012 at 5:50 PM

    “If you go back and read our original Netflix piece, we pretty well nailed it,” Tilson told Forbes today. “But we were quite early – we were almost a year early. So we got clobbered to the point that we couldn’t take the pain, and we just said, ‘You know what? There are better shorts out here.’ And later, to the Journal: “It’s been frustrating to see our original investment thesis validated, yet not profit from it. It certainly highlights the importance of getting the timing right and maintaining your conviction even when the market moves against you. The core of our short thesis was always Netflix’s high valuation. In light of the stock’s collapse, we now think it’s cheap and today established a small long position. We hope it gets cheaper so we can add to it.”
    http://dealbreaker.com/2011/10/whitney-tilson-t2-…

  8. 8
    Posted by trojan_ | February 16, 2012 at 5:55 PM

    every once in awhile someone will double down on the Hi-Lo and 2 or 12 actually gets rolled

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    Posted by Guest | February 17, 2012 at 7:12 AM

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  11. 11
    Posted by guest | February 17, 2012 at 9:16 AM

    2 posts 1 article…Straight crushing it