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https://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Manageme...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

> Initially successful with annualized return of over 21% (after fees) in its first year, 43% in the second year and 41% in the third year, in 1998 it lost $4.6 billion in less than four months following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 1998 Russian financial crisis requiring financial intervention by the Federal Reserve, with the fund liquidating and dissolving in early 2000.




That's the thing with high-risk high-reward financial gambling. When you're always all-in at one point you're going to lose it all.


they were more than "all-in"; they were levered 25*.




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