Wow, it’s just starting and it’s not going to stop. Basis Capital is an Australian hedge fund. They run about a billion dollars under management. What you have to keep in mind however is that hedge funds use LEVERAGE, big leverage.

The average hedge fund manager in the United States is using 6 times the capital base of the money he is managing, as leverage. In the race for performance or the elusive alpha, some hedge fund managers are pushing

The force of the knock across the financial sector over the past 12 months has exposed the weaknesses in the global financial tectonic plates. From New York to London to Hong Kong to Tokyo, the newly formed global network cracked under the strains of the economic quake as the ground shook. Some of the institutional pillars of the financial world shook.

Each of us has one main goal in mind and that’s to make as much money as we can in the shortest amount of time. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could double the value of your investment portfolio in a matter of a days? The fact is that while a goal like that is largely impractical, people have that very goal in mind and they invest looking for fast gains without any work.