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RE: Barron's Report on CTA performance: another oldie gets"hit"



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Yeah - there are actually new strategies out called "Turtle Soup" that I
think are countering the original strat !
Apparently, the NEW ONES are working.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy [mailto:rdsmith5@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:22 AM
> To: Allan Kaminsky
> Cc: prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Omega-List
> Subject: Re: Barron's Report on CTA performance: another oldie gets"hit"
>
>
> Yeah and I recall during the period 1990 - 96 of the top 20 CTA
> accounts  7 were
> Turtles.
>
> Randy Smith
>
> Allan Kaminsky wrote:
>
> > He's also the guy who trained the turtles.
> >
> > Allan
> >
> > At 10:57 AM 8/2/2000, M. Simms wrote:
> > >Remember a guy named Richard Dennis ?
> > >Back in the 70's and 80's, he was a top commodities trader....
> > >I believe he took a $50,000 account to something like 8
> million in a matter
> > >of a few years.
> > >
> > >His trading company "Dennis Trading" can be found on the bottom of the
> > >performance list in the recent edition of Barrons.....(-74%) YTD
> > >performance....right near the bottom.
> > >
> > >Whatever he did back then, apparently is not working in
> today's markets.
> > >
> > >Times change, markets change. If you don't change with 'em,
> you're history.
>
>