Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "What Exactly Are Hedge Funds (And Why Are They Always Causing Problems)?" video.

  1. The only casino where card counting is mandatory.
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  2. SEC rule is you must file if you own 5% or more of the company.
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  3.  @brianjohnson5272  are you high?
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  4. The original hedge fund was market neutral and had a lot of leverage, so the manager advertised the fund as hedged and that it would provide uncorrelated returns, thus hedging the partner's overall market risk from their other investments.
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  5.  @brianjohnson5272  I'm not berating you. The rambling makes me think you're on something or just really angry whilst only having a vague idea of the topic.
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  6.  @brianjohnson5272  I only skimmed the first too rants, I ain't reading this babble.
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  7.  @brianjohnson5272  shut up
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  8. It's the top 2% of incomes. That's gated community kind of cash.
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  9. Who? You parents?
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  10. Jealous, much?
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  11.  @TheBoostedDoge  you should talk
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  12. Well, it was a hedge fund until the manager was banned from investing other people's money. Same people, different name, only investing the manager's money.
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  13. A select few did. A lot of them bought into the bubble by speculating on real estate, too.
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  14. There's a channel under the name Patrick Boyle. He's a former Hedge Fund manager.
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  15. Gamblers imply degenerate behavior. These guys are counting cards.
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  16. Not all of them do that.
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  17. HarDeeHar...
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  18. How would that kill Hedgies? It just equals a lot of people who would buy mutual funds instead buying hedge funds. Whether this is good or bad is debatable.
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  19. Jealous, much? And yes, active investing keeps markets efficient by bringing market value closer to real value. There are also arbitrage methods where real world services are provided and a natural profit is turned (like risk arbitrage).
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  20. That's literally impossible to pull off unless you're minting a cryptocurrency.
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  21. Hedge funds are just autists with a lot more money.
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  22. You lose.
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  23. Dude, these guys couldn't crash the economy even if they tried. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW BIG THE MARKET IS!!! And the only money at risk belongs to the rich chumps you hate so much, so why you angry?
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  24. Not if you have any idea what you're talking about
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  25. Even giant banks can fail like the Lehman Bros, although it's unlikely since the Feds hate to see normal people lose jobs/savings and so will often bail them out with low interest loans. With hedgies, it's just rich and dumb money, so no one cares.
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  26. Your dream, not ours.
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  27. You'll need to get a license to give financial advice (degree and exams required) and enough seed capital to get an investment bank to send rich chumps your way.
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  28. They don't make or enforce rules and don't break them any faster than anyone else.
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  29.  @VotePaineJefferson  you wish. But round here voters make the rules, which isn't really an improvement.
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  30.  @VotePaineJefferson  most people aren't as dirty as you.
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  31. He ain't exactly singing their praises.
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  32. You can employ the same investment methods as hedge funds, you just can't do it with other people's money.
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  33. There's a lot of investment scams out there.
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  34. The majority of that money was from large investors including several hedgies.
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  35. The name comes from how the return is intended to be uncorrelated to the market.
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  36.  @lcmiracle  anyone can play as the house. It's called the Wheel.
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  37.  @lcmiracle  because it isn't gambling
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  38. If you must lie, you must know the truth first.
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  39. The difference is it was a hedge fund that was banned from investing other people's money.
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  40. It's called deep value investing. Buy failing companies for peanuts, turn it around the best you can, then sell at a profit.
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  41. And then those guys lost money and went dark.
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  42. What does that make autists?
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  43. No one actually knows if that's true since there's no auditing or public disclosures required.
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  44. Total value of labor needed to obtain an item.
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