Whoa, this must be a first for E'trader. It's customary to call other posters on a thread "assclown" or some such...
It's easy to get started in Excel, but I've seen many spreadsheets grow like kudzu, becoming unmaintainable and unverifiable. Such projects would...
OK, but if cost is a concern, why not go with http://gnu.org/software/octave/ if you love Matlab syntax, or else with http://www.r-project.org/...
In fooling with Excel2007 on Vista in recent months, I've found the "million rows" is meaningless -- a sheet of any complexity runs your machine...
A couple of clippings -...
Elitetrader.com is a magic land where everyone's Sharpe is sky-high, everyone's NAV is always rising, no one ever has a losing trade, and every 25...
Enlightenment! You have snatched the pebble from my hand..
I just got back from 10 days down the shore, and this thread is still alive? WTF? What more is there to say about Mr Sykes?
I think this gets to the heart of the matter. Mr Sykes's book was given a hedgefund title, one imagines, at the suggestion of an editor or...
Help me understand this. Someone who reads the book.. is bored or stupid. Whereas someone who writes lengthy posts about a book he hasn't read.....
Well, it appears you care about Timmy, since you've spent the time to write and post numerous flames. Don't you have work to do, or heaven forbid...
Again, the book is better read as a 'troubled birth of a new business' story. Imagine that instead of a $1.5m fund, he sank $1.5m into buying a...
The 'town-hall meetings' are, AFAIK, assemblages to hear presentations by invited guest speakers, rather than company-wide discussions of strategy.
Again, I have no axe either way as to Mr Skyes, but I don't understand this gripe. Mr Sykes lays out his performance in detail in the book. Far...
I assume you're intelligent enough to understand I never said "all hedge funds invest heavily in pink sheets," so you're misrepresenting my...
This betrays a very deep misunderstanding of how markets work. The fact that a security is illiquid doesn't make it unsuitable for a hedgefund....
I have no axe to grind either way as to Mr Sykes's merits as a money manager, but.. this post illustrates a common error...
WTF? Why does anyone care whose homes you've visited? What does this have to do with reviewing Mr Sykes's book?
Well, I said I'd stop posting.. but I'm weak. Did anyone follow my suggestion and actually check what high-quality derivs books from non-Wiley...
I promise I won't post again.. You, and others on this thread, have made a special point of tagging Wiley as an expensive publisher. My simple,...
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