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khurramon Ask HN: How do you evaluate a stock tender offer?

When I worked in markets I would often get asked questions in the form of: should I short X? Should I trade X currency now or later?

More specifically many questioned whether they should buy GBP/USD the day before brexit or the day after. The only good advice is to buy 50% the day before and 50% the day after, that way you are wrong both times.

khurramon Slack Taps Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO

(worked at Goldman)

Despite having this, all the traders just end up using Bloomberg chat. GS tooling often gets in your way more than it helps.

khurramon YouOS - A bright example that intelligent people are not enough to create a successful revenue business?

I think webOS are definately going to be in business. http://G.ho.st is really doing well. On your personal observation, i agree to the fact that busienss acumen is more important then a strong technical abilities.