Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility

Post by mgh2 » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 5:52 AM UTC

bko wrote: post #7

This fund returned 47% in its first 6m and over 400% prior to the downturn. I don't understand how the investors didn't realize this was going to blow up. Returns like that are not asymmetrical and can only be produced with leverage, at least when you're trading paper. When something is inevitable and there is a large enough position, this makes adversarial attacks likely. Every small drop causes an amplified amount…