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Benn Eifert 🥷🏴‍☠️

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Hedge fund manager (volatility/derivatives), QVR. Personal account. Oathbreaker paladin and Nightreign princess bodyguard. Chief Investment Officer of Antifa.

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1Nov 2, '25Sam Altman is a fascinating new type of person -- someone who is transparently a sociopathic liar and grifter and immensely unlikeable to 99% of humanity, but within Silicon Valley64×1.5M29k2.1k2.5k
2Jan 3, '25If you think Citadel, Milennium, DE Shaw and company putting up double digit returns every year regardless of what the S&P does with almost no beta and on 3-5% volatility and m55×1.3M3.8k1471.1k
3Feb 5, '25"I made Roblox. Give me the launch codes"53.8×1.3M54k2.7k850
4Apr 18, '25Noted communist rag The Financial Times43.3×1M8.8k1.5k974
5Apr 13, '25I was told by so many rw bros who heard of the IMF for the first time today that Argentina was an economic miracle under Milei39.3×941k14k945736
6Apr 20, '25"Mom, how did we get so rich?" "Your father democratized access to private equity for retail investors to find exit liquidity for trillions of dollars worth of unsellable assets, s39.2×938k8.7k3691.5k
7Oct 24, '25View post on X36.6×876k11k427318
8Mar 15, '25Putting together a thread-of-threads on options and derivatives. It's kind of hard because I never tag them with the stupid thread symbol (i hate it). If you have others of mine yo35.5×849k2k1875k
9Jan 4, '25The replies to this, and to the original post, illustrate a lot of confusion about what the multi-manager platforms do, confusing them with high frequency market makers, etc. I'll 35.2×843k1.4k931.3k
10Apr 23, '25if you're worried about birth rates, try asking young couples how they feel about the amount of maternity and paternity leave they get, how affordable they find child care and hous34.2×819k24k2.5k445
11Aug 14, '25The people wanted a covered calls / option selling mega-thread, a one-click response to all the charlatans out there trying to farm retail investors. Systematically, blindly sellin33.2×796k2.5k2374.1k
12Feb 24, '25Hi, derivatives guy here. Convertible bonds are debt securitities that have to be paid off in cash if the stock price is below the conversion price, your investors will want good o31.1×744k3.1k203547
13May 20, '25"the financial freedom the derivatives markets can provide" is perhaps the most terrifying phrase I've ever heard28×670k6.3k250352
14Feb 6, '25The people who built Silicon Valley and changed the world in incredible ways are gone. Much of the current generation are hype mongers, asset gatherers, get rich quick gurus, ponzi27.3×654k15k1.7k1.3k
15Jun 25, '25To all the people bull-posting about this: do you understand why Morgan Stanley expects seven rate cuts and what that scenario looks like26.5×635k4.7k185548
16Jun 18, '25Fully automated, agentic money-losing24.7×592k9.2k202791
17Dec 23, '24I was one of Palantir's early beta clients for "autonomous cross-domain reasoning over heterogenous data structures" in finance. What that term means is a dozen expensive on-site e23.1×552k2.1k97712
18Jan 10, '25in all seriousness, this should be 100% illegal, that's not big government telling people what they should or shouldn't do with their money, that's saying you shouldn't be incentiv22×526k9.4k646286
19Nov 15, '25Jesus Bill, you couldn't waterboard this out of me21.1×505k2.3k42144
20Jan 24, '25to be clear, if you use enough leverage to make 48% in a year of selling, you will zero your account with near certainty on a sharp drawdown in the market19.9×477k1.8k28244
21Oct 28, '25JP Morgan is not a hedge fund. All those screens are for derivatives salespeople to copy and paste bids and offers from their traders into Bloomberg IM chats with their clients 🖤16.6×397k3.9k119335
22Jun 21, '25fwiw i invest with startups when no one has heard their name and they are in the office on sunday morning at 5am because they love it and would never be anywhere else short this vi16.1×385k2.4k38341
23Jun 19, '25Warren Buffet ran over the most sophisticated derivatives desks on the planet for many billions of dollars and ran the project with a team of MIT grads and PhD's. Grow the fk up an15.9×382k2.4k135783
24Nov 10, '25Vlad Tenev is partnering with billionaire private equity titans to dump their bags un unsuspecting retail investors at insane bubble prices and you're bearish?15.8×378k2k158231
25Feb 9, '25Hi Austen, let's create a polymarket bet on this. I have whatever size you are interested in.15.3×367k3.4k46112
26Apr 30, '25This is the most VC thing to say of all possible VC things that could be said15.3×366k7.2k276309
27May 27, '251. Lehman. Wells Fargo prop lost hundreds of millions of dollars on converts, bond basis and levered loans. Head of the desk went to the board and asked for $4 billion in balance s14.2×340k1.4k42933
28Jun 19, '25In a van down by the river, yes. You think I joke but a friend of mine ran commodities at a big physicals shop and her hardest business issue was that the kind of guys who worked f14.1×338k4.6k71425
29Aug 19, '25- Altman is a huckster - Few companies are deriving meaningful value from these products - The capex is rapidly depreciating waste - Markets will correct rapidly when the hype fall13.7×327k2.2k187431
30Jan 20, '25If inflation continues to surge and grocery prices push Trump approval ratings down, he will propose Venezuela-style price controls and try to extort companies into lowering prices13.6×326k1.7k113127
31Aug 9, '25Funny (?) health care story. Stomach had been hurting for a few weeks. Got on a plane from LA to SF and all the sudden got way worse, like 9/10. Went straight to the ER after landi13.2×316k1.5k33247
32Apr 23, '25The President of the United States13×312k8.3k297211
33Jan 15, '25sir, in financial markets we usually refer to the term "bloodbath" as indicating assets going down in price, not up12.8×307k1.9k4991
34Apr 17, '25Couldn't have happened to nicer people. Mark it zero11.7×279k2.4k92122
35Dec 23, '24Unvaccinated patients are 2.46 times more likely to die of COVID than vaccinated patients, based on 6 studies with 21.6 million cases. Peter Thiel is a smart guy, he can read a sci11×263k2.8k433377
36Jun 11, '25Robinhood sprays confetti all over the screen when you lift the offer on 25% wide option contracts. What exactly do you think our advanced trading tools look like at QVR and Capsto10.8×259k1.4k39139
37Apr 12, '251) game theory is a real thing. for example, it revolutionized the auction mechanisms used to sell ads on search engines, creating massive revenue 2) almost everyone who tries to e10.0×238k3.9k135868
38Oct 31, '25First and only Bill Ackman post I've ever liked9.9×236k1.9k2282
39Mar 23, '25President of the United States launching Solana scamcoins out of a Delaware LLC and pumping them on Twitter, and you think he is going to "set our country on a more sustainable fis9.4×226k7.6k1k347
40Mar 31, '25why do farmers need bailouts when tariffs make us rich9.4×226k9.8k1.1k142
41Jan 23, '25every single one of these guys believes in absolutely nothing but their own greed9.4×226k6.6k455138
42Dec 29, '24Do not, under any circumstances, listen to people who push unmitigated trash on unsuspecting investors and light their money on fire, and then tell you not to invest in index funds9.4×224k1.9k125130
43Mar 4, '25We are going to see mass protests in the not too far distant future. Trump is going to call them illegal and have Hegseth deploy the military to crack down. Would not be surprised 9.4×224k1.5k103132
44Feb 19, '25These guys are such unmitigated clowns. When we raised tariffs on steel in 2018, that added 1000 jobs in steel producers, but raises input costs for American manufacturing firms, c8.8×210k3.3k187233
45Mar 14, '25bwahahhahahahaha DOGE is such LARP comic gold8.7×209k2.5k9873
46Feb 7, '25Office 365 is now by default changing attachments I try to send into OneDrive links which no one external to the firm has access to. Why would anyone ever want this? Why does softw7.9×188k2.3k6377
47Mar 22, '25Let's start with people who scammed tens of billions of dollars out of investors in the SPAC craze7.7×185k4.8k27287
48Jan 2, '251) i am (obviously) left wing 2) i think this kind of thing is disastrous for the progressive case. the capacity of the state to deliver outcomes, or work with private sector partn6.9×164k2.1k112161
49Mar 24, '25From you, to Citadel Securities, by way of Robinhood6.7×161k2.8k10093
50Dec 26, '24wealth management is the extreme opposite of technical fields that are heavy H1B users, dominated by white liberal arts majors from wealthy backgrounds with connections. I can see 6.5×157k1.9k89165
51Mar 28, '25The reason its so easy to know how the Trump presidency is going to evolve is because it's modeled on third world tinpot dictatorships6.4×152k3.6k380183
52Apr 17, '25I don't get the hate for university endowments on here. Rich people give money to universities, they invest the money, most of the proceeds go to fund financial aid for smart low i6.2×148k1.8k53107
53Mar 4, '25will the short term pain of stagflation and unemployment be worth it for the long term pain of becoming a failed banana republic?6.1×145k5.5k394143
54Dec 26, '24Don't think being a model minority will satisfy the racists Don't bring them in as political partners and be surprised racism is their priority Don't stoke racism against blacks, m6.0×144k2k271195
55Apr 25, '25Generational wealth starts with building a great company, not crossing Uncle Ken's bid/ask spreads while Robinhood sprays confetti across your screen5.9×141k1.4k7099
56May 23, '25Get in losers, we're doing this again5.7×136k1.6k6861
57Apr 21, '25He told you literally everything he was going to do. He replaced all the adults in his circle with yes men and clowns. He repeatedly claimed the election was stolen. He said J6ers 5.6×133k2.4k21683
59Mar 4, '25Trump just ravaged the heavily export-oriented US agricultural industry, based in geographic areas which voted overwhelmingly for him, and signed off "Have fun!"5.2×125k1.6k134126
60Nov 10, '25Anyone who refers to their ceo's work travel as "forward deployment" should be sent to a Siberian zinc mine4.9×118k2.2k3840
61Dec 25, '24yep. happened to fancy finance guys on twitter too4.9×118k1.8k140212
62Mar 3, '25If there is one lesson from global economics over the last century it is this: stability, rule of law and the quality of government is much more important than corporate tax rates 4.8×116k3.2k419263
63Apr 20, '25The thing is, its not even going to translate into a meaningful tax cut for the rich. Cancer research spending is a rounding error in the federal budget. They're literallly just do4.7×113k3.6k420114
64May 12, '25View post on X4.7×113k1.5k4552
65Feb 2, '25"reshoring mining"4.6×109k2.5k5534
66Apr 17, '25Eliminating central bank independence is one of the first ten things every tin pot dictator in a dysfunctional country does (along with ending press freedoms, suppressing dissent, 4.5×108k2.1k223105
67Mar 2, '25Daddy Trump is coming to bail out a16z's underwater crypto funds and borrow fiat currency to have the government prop up cyberpunk libertarian censorship-resistant currencies4.5×108k1.8k16880
68Mar 3, '25For example, the government might launch a strategic crypto reserve to buy the five coins you hold in your LP interests4.5×107k3.3k30679
69Sep 6, '20Thought I'd clarify a few different mechanisms that are getting confused somewhat: 1) retail speculation and short term call buying ("Robinhood") 2) institutional call spread trade4.4×02.8k6911.2k
70Mar 29, '25View post on X4.4×104k1.9k5151
71Feb 19, '21One popular argument goes as follows: “We are long-term investors. Volatility doesn’t matter to our portfolio.” This is an appealing idea. (thread)4.3×02.4k4321.6k
72Feb 26, '25some of my favorite market narratives 2007 commodities - they're never making more 2014 biotech - we're curing cancer 2020 tech - we'll all live in the metaverse 2021 p2p lending -4.3×102k1.5k110248
73Dec 22, '24counterpoint: lots of people just have regular jobs that they do to provide for families that they love and don't have some goofy obsession with e/acc or ayn rand or bitcoin or wha4.1×98k1.7k6976
75Apr 16, '251) I am all for this 2) Trump's inner circle is making billions of dollars buying short dated options ahead of every move he makes so how about we address that too4.0×95k1.4k5738
76Mar 14, '25Hearing rumors of a junior database analyst pod blowing up today, some issue with hard drives over 60k rows in a query3.9×92k1.3k2838
77May 17, '25View post on X3.8×91k1.7k10874
79Apr 21, '25In two years Chamath is going to be doing land acknowledgments at all his meetings and giving his new SPACs they/them pronouns3.7×89k1.6k4434
80Mar 22, '25literally the dumbest people you ever imagined existed3.7×89k1.6k5355
81Mar 7, '25View post on X3.6×86k1.5k4083
84Mar 10, '25The post-truth world is embarassingly stupid3.0×71k2.3k10544
85Apr 28, '25take them literally and seriously. masked gestapo2.9×68k2.6k31448
86Feb 13, '22Got some grifters out there lately pushing a narrative that the rise of broad-based aggressive individual trading activity is somehow empowering, so here are some links below to ac2.8×01.7k365832
87Mar 27, '25People who make memes about dragging crying brown people off in chains would not hesitate to drag off your loved ones and shoot them against the wall in some dark prison because th2.7×63k2k16151
90Jun 18, '25Wonder if these guys still think it was worth it2.3×55k1.6k4454
91Mar 24, '25California, ruined by woke, stay far away1.9×46k1.3k1345
92Jan 5, '22you were literally tweeting every thousand dollar price increment in bitcoin from 20k to 60k1.8×02.6k7619
98Dec 27, '20watching cypto kids try to talk about finance and markets is 😂😍🤑1.1×01.4k9939
99Jan 27, '21GME isn't going up in real value; there are a fixed number of shares. What is happening is the fiat economy is being debased all around us1.1×01.4k8115
100Jul 2, '21by age 30 you should have - three laptops running seven different incompatible python 2 and 3 environments - a serious problem binge drinking diet cokes and scrolling Zillow - t-sh1.0×01.3k6321
101Oct 5So proud of Honey and the rest of the Zero Parades writing team for making the shortlist for best storytelling. They’re up alongside games with ten times their budget! Play the cri0.4×9.7k2300

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