We just bumped up the max leverage from 20x to 50x on international perpetual futures.
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A great story about the mindset of extreme winners:
"Larry Ellison had dinner one night with Roger Federer, and he mentioned a conversation he’d had earlier with another tennis great, Jimmy Connors.
Larry had told Connors that sometimes he went out and “just hit” without really focusing on anything in particular.
Connors looked at Larry and said, “Oh, you don’t want to do that.”
Larry recounted how Connors had given him a look “like I’d just told my rabbi that I was converting to Catholicism!”
Larry was intrigued by Connors’s reaction.
To Connors, the idea of going out and hitting without being focused on improving your game was sacrilege.
Larry had come to understand the “charmed, tormented life” of athletes, that fitting subtitle of Jerry West’s autobiography.
Whereas Larry found a brutal but welcome clarity in sports, he had seen how professional athletes—including his dinner mate Federer—were defined by minutes or even seconds of competition.
West wrote in his book:
“Can you imagine what it’s like to feel like you have a game won, and then you don’t?
One shot, one play, one call?
What I do know is that it hurts, it really hurts.”
The athletes Larry knew were obsessed with the game they played.
They were like his friend Steve Jobs, who worried about the color of the screws inside a computer, who wanted one switch and not two to control the doors in his plane.
They reminded Larry of a line from Tombstone:
Wyatt Earp asks Doc Holliday:
“What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?”
Doc replies:
“A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.”
For better and worse, Larry had the same hole, and he tried to fill it by winning.
But as soon as he closed in on one of his goals, he immediately set another difficult and distant goal.
In that way, he kept moving the finish line just out of reach."
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