This week's thread is a very funny topic posted on the EliteTrader boards: "Altucher guesses: trend funds to disappear within the next 10 years..." You would think the thread would actually hold some value considering James Altucher and Victor Niederhoffer are some of the posters. But, the thread mostly ends up as an ideology debate similar to my football team is better than yours.
You do have to give the originator of the thread some credit...the opening post below sure did the job of drawing many traders into the fire:
"successful hedge fund manager and author, james althucher, states in his new book--"super cash"---- that the trend following funds will be history within the next 10 years. he cites the dismal performance of the major trend funds over the last several years, over leverage, and investors pulling out. his new book is fantastic reading into the cutting edge of hedge funds. definitely check it out!" -- marketsurfer
Even I had to post a few comments. See if you recognize which ones those were.
As a follow-up to the thread...check out Niederhoffer's post on his DailySpeculations site here. You'll have to search down for the following post, Comments on a Trend Following Discussion, dated 12-Apr-2006.
Later Trades,
MT
2 comments:
What is Victor Niederhoffer's alias on that forum? I didn't see him identified.
And if you are marketdog, yours were some of the most intelligent and reasonable posts in the discussion.
profturf is Niederhoffer. He won't admit it though.
You're correct...I'm marketdog. Very good. What gave me away? :)
And thank you for the very kind words regarding my posts.
Take care,
MT
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