[fractionalhare]

> Considering this is a hedge fund, I just assume they're lying because, you know, it's a fucking hedge fund.

If this is your prior for approaching evidence, you're always going to catch big finance lying. But not because you're actually calibrated on evidence. And you won't be able to distinguish between actual fraud and baseless conspiracy.

[kshacker]

Well this has been going around on the reddits today. See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI

> Says Cramer: What's important when you're in that hedgefund mode, is to not do anything remotely truthful, because the truth is so against your view, so its important to CREATE A NEW TRUTH to develop a fiction...the great thing about the market is it has absolutely nothing to do with the actual stocks

[vmception]

quite a bit has changed since 2006, specifically in the financial reform bill of 2010 and the jobs act of 2012

not a lot, but a bit

circulating a clip from 2006 as your only insight into the hedge fund world just proves all the talking heads right about retail traders being a joke.

[protastus]

> quite a bit has changed since 2006, specifically in the financial reform bill of 2010 and the jobs act of 2012

> not a lot, but a bit

I don't know who you could persuade with such lack of conviction...

[vmception]

it was mainly to satisfy pedantic financial professionals passing by but I can see how that is not reconcilable for pedantic software engineers at the same time