Sharpe Two

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@uttdkola Hulk

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@MMAFullMount That's assuming that Gaethje has any brain cells left, mate.

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@NEDUszn8

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@justalexoki Is this a weekly or a 5hours reset though?

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Oops he did it again.

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Raising an eyebrow. Maybe even two.

[doomer @doomerfied]

[ DOOMER ]

ROBINHOOD AND KLARNA TEAM UP TO LET USERS BUY SPACEX IPO SHARES USING 'PAY IN 4': BBG

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@Vtrivedy10 It feels like magic. The product just works.

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@RevenRV It all makes sense now.

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@CtrlAltDwayne Hard to disagree.

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Interesting argument.

[Rob Bezdjian @robbezdjian]

I brag about simplifying complex trades. This is not one of those instances.

Finance 101 questions:

1) What does beta mean?
2) If you short something higher beta and go long something lower beta, is your expected return positive or negative?
3) If you move forward anyway, what BEST describes the process:
a) pushing on a string
b) eating an elephant
c) dressing up like you’re playing Elder Scrolls and fighting imaginary dragons in Central Park?

@bennpeifert I noticed you publicly blamed allocator pressure for pushing you into “risky trades.”

That caught my attention.

My SSRN papers Am I the Patsy? and Who’s the Dog, Who’s the Tail? — much of which was provided to the SEC under whistleblower protection — suggest incentives in modern finance may be far less “aligned” than the public is told.

This is not just about fees.

The sharper question is whether the same ecosystem directing client capital into structurally weak trades also has affiliated desks, counterparties, market makers, or liquidity providers economically positioned on the other side.

Before people scream “conspiracy theory,” finance has seen versions of this before.

See: Goldman Sachs and Abacus.

Goldman helped structure and market a mortgage product while a hedge fund involved in selecting the underlying assets was positioned for that product to fail. Goldman ultimately paid a $550 million SEC settlement related to disclosures surrounding the deal.

Clients are told the walls protect them.
Everyone collects fees.
Everyone is “hedged.”
Everyone is “risk managed.”

Then somehow the client still ends up holding the bag.

Maybe that’s coincidence.
Maybe that’s satire.
Maybe it’s both.

Since no one else seems willing to ask the obvious questions, I’m asking in an investigative capacity:

Can you publicly explain the math behind the trade and the expected return profile?

Because from a Finance 101 perspective, shorting the higher beta instrument while going long the lower beta instrument is not hedging. It is not arbitrage. It is volunteering to slowly die in Excel.

And if allocator pressure really is that extreme, I suspect a few whistleblower attorneys would love to understand how those incentives actually work behind the scenes.

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@ScottPh77711570 @bennpeifert Yeah well he still blew up. And not with his own money. And not exactly in the toughest market conditions. And when you’ve been such an insufferable prick so quick to brag about your intellect, at some point, the street will present you the bill.

[Ven @edgefills]

Junior Trader interview question: do you put the name of your previous employer that blows out on vol, or do you just claim that you’re under an NDA?

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@creapills @PublicisConseil @Orange_France Au moins on sait déjà qui a tué John...

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@AmmarAtal Plus de responsabilité = community manager et responsable de la communication sur instagram.

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@r0ktech > You are right
...
> Proceed deleting 125GB of hardly acquired data over the last 24 hours.

And you can't even fire that mf. You're in it .. for the long haul...

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First rule of investing: do not blow up and avoid margin calls.

2nd rule: avoid stealing/borrowing people's money for personal use.

[SBF @SBF_FTX]

many such cases…

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@itsolelehmann Fix your f** product then. I am not paying for a gen Z employee, but for a non deterministic function.

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@LeFigaroTV @adeguigne Voila ce qui se passe quand on passe trop de temps à intellectualiser les choses au lieu de les vivre. La seule nostalgie que je vois c'est celle de la khol de culture gé en khagnes.

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The {type:"thinking", thinking:"", signature:"…"} shape means the API returned it that way. This is not Claude Code stripping — the CLI faithfully serialises what the SDK received. Anthropic changed the default for opus-4-7 to suppress plaintext thinking and only ship signatures.

Dirty.