this is such a cool tweet pic credit @directioncorrec after semis lost a little bit of momentum "some forces" -wink wink- started correlating all of leopold's levered positions as his portfolio drew down -10% after -10%, all at the same time, he blew up x.com/CL207/status/20844578413…
The thing with LTCM (at least in the common understanding of how it went down) is that the fund's managers had good a priori reason to think its holdings were uncorrelated. But they all had in common one thing (that they were owned by LTCM).
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