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They got no grand entry. No art collections. No mahogany boardroom. No twenty-foot ceilings. They don’t need ’em. ’Cause they got no investors. They just got hundreds of millions of dollars of capital. All their own. Accumulated by trading options, through a tumultuous decade. And they got an army of young kids; Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, MIT. Dressed in baseball caps, frat-house wear, and mathematics di

See the signs brother? Yeah me too. Everything’s connected. Pope Benedict is 85. Retiring early. Hasn’t happened since 1294, when his Holiness, Celestine the 5th, was Pope for 5mths and 8days – then hit the bid. His successor, Boniface the 8th, immediately placed humble Celestine in prison – where he promptly died. Went to heaven, and was canonized as a Saint – for that early exit. While Boniface clung to

Hope all goes well. “Please don’t ask what I think,” sighed my buddy, atop his prodigious pile of paper. “Every single call I make is wrong.” Which of course is just as rare, and as valuable, as its inverse. “But tell me what you see,” he continued. And I explained it feels we’re entering the most exciting trading environment for years. Maybe a decade. “Why?” he asked, surprised. And truth is, I don’t know exactly wh