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Discussion (6 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

furytrader•about 1 hour ago
The irony is that the WSJ had profiled Situational Awareness with a glowing story just 1-2 months ago. It reminds me of my old adage: "You don't want to read about your positions in a newspaper" - it paints a large target on your back.
darkwizard42•9 minutes ago
I think this is probably true. Allowed for Citadel and others to create a ton of pressure on SA's highly leveraged positions.

Always a bigger whale out there with the ability to exert pressure...

hbcondo714•30 minutes ago
More precisely, 23 new positions were reported in their latest filing just a couple months ago, most of those being semiconductors:

https://last10k.com/sec-filings/2045724

nrenegar•7 minutes ago
It should be clarified that a number of those were puts.
d_silin•about 1 hour ago
Reminds me of LTCM fund story (very smart people X highly leveraged portfolio = a perfect recipe for massive losses on black swan day)
vzcx•36 minutes ago
LTCM was actually a lot more sophisticated, this fund's thesis was basically "number go up."

Count the OOMs!