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A Look at D.E. Shaw's Q408 Holdings: Just for Fun

He's going to lose his shirt on those Apple Puts... very risky to Put Apple right now.... good for us that are long, though.

Most of his Calls and increased positions look pretty solid, though.

Farallon Capital's Q408: Betting on MasterCard

Nice to see another Hedgie remove it's position on Apple. If you notice, the removed positions of the funds, have now become a lot more stable, and many like Apple are on a steady rise, with individual investors back in control.

Here's a question: Should there be a law that prevents investors with a certain volume of shares, from putting or shorting their own stock? I mean, you know these funds, made money on the sale and then on the subsequent short caused by their volume sale... not that that's bad... it's just that they have such a huge influence in one fell swoop because of volume trading. Watching fund portfolios now has to be a major part of an investors decision & time... it would be nice if they could be automatically tracked, with some kind of software or service... and more then regular filings, that a certain volume of any stock would trigger a requirement for real-time viewing of the funds actions.

So much power in one place. I propose we start a fund "investment club". Individual investors can band together, and time a mass sale or mass purchase and benefit from the same market calls & puts, but caused by their OWN actions.... wouldn't that be trip! We could stay as individual investors, but pool mass resources like the big boys do!