Today’s twaddle @ Twitter: Quant fund losses, Barclays, EDUCOMP trade
In case you didn’t visit the site today, here’s all of today’s Twitter messages (latest one first). - you might find some of the links worth a read .
- Out of EDUCOMP @ 2668, Low volumes, Morning trend down
- Again playing with EDUCOMP intraday, in at 2662 @ 10.40am, morning range was 2640-2695
- Came across this while googling EDUCOMP: http://tinyurl.com/2zfxxj; From 120 to 2700; perhaps fundamental analysis is insufficient?
- Motilal Oswal IPO: August 20-23, Price range: Rs 725-825 per equity share.
- ET: Seven broking firms received ~$270 million in investments by private equity firms during the first six months of 2007.
- Subprime Trouble @ Barclays: http://tinyurl.com/2t8pmx (Jeff Mathews), http://tinyurl.com/2wj6fc (Economic Times)
- More Saut: unusual occurrence of 3 90% downside-days where points lost, and A/D ratio, showed over 90% negative daily readings since July 19
- Latest from jSaut: Despite investors’ panic, these selling-stampedes run 17 – 25 sessions before exhausting themselves on the downside.
- Via mCovel: David Faber reporting today that GS and all “other” top hedge funds are 75%-100% done delevering their stat arb funds.
- Sarcasm from pKedrosky: GS’s GEO quant long-short fund losing 30% last week;tough to do in a market neutral fund, so kudos to ‘em.
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August 19th, 2007 at 5:39 am
hi i enjoyed the read