The 2 sides of a speculator. The first is the moment when I knew that my end was nigh. I found myself at a macro conference in Barcelona in 2017. My guys literally begged for the organising bank to let us in...
I spent 2 days in this cubicle pitching to low quality macro investors. Track record? Uncorrelated and positive carry returns over 15 years...convex too, which is too say i made a lot more than I ever lost. Yeah sure but how do you spell the name of the fund? You got a pen?
Write this down«  F-$-C-K-O-F-F »
I blasted the filter to show the rage bubbling inside
The 2nd is from the other side; from the life i created for myself. Today, I like surfing and big cars...what can I say? And last week I even surfed in my trousers!
Surf was perfect and I forgot my shorts...what’s a boy with a head full of nonsense got to do around here? And hats off to the wonderful Layla - the queen of the islands - who has become the face of my villa, Blanc Bleu.
And for those interested in those carbon futures, they trade under the moniker, MOZZ1. But really, to follow the story, you got to watch it all unfold on my YouTube channel youtube.com/c/HughHendryOf…
Not the beginning, not the end, I’m just movin on with a curious and playful mind.

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21 Mar
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The creative who’s taken the path of time and space to the end knows that where it all ends, it all begins... Not the beginning, not the end
Me? I’m just movin on with a curious and playful mind. Remember, I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe and I’m determined that all those moments won’t be lost in time. These aren’t tears in the rain and this isn’t a time to die...we got bull and bear markets to discover
Read 5 tweets
19 Mar
Bear-to-Infinity? Few people remember my transformation to the bullish camp at the end of 2013 with SPX bubbling under 2k. Here’s an extract from the letter that caused a billion $s to walk. No one could handle a bullish moi...
Bob Ryan, from the US cable TV show Entourage. The show chronicles the workings of Hollywood
and Ryan is a legendary movie producer credited with a string of box office winners. His problem
is that his success was rather a long time ago.
So no one is certain of his skills anymore. He makes seemingly absurd promises – think along the lines of "...what if I were to tell
you that this movie will cost peanuts to make, will earn you four Oscars and will gross $100m...is that something you might be interested in?"
Read 15 tweets
7 Mar
There was a time when i thought that to speculate you had to be a nihilist set on destruction - tu consens ou plutôt aspires à ta ruine?? That you had to yearn for your own demise..? Hold on..? Perhaps I succeeded?
I got to thinking like this owing to some scrapes with death when i climbed Big Mountains. I can recall the perilous position of climbing steep ice gradients many thousands of metres high in the French Alps.
You would leave the mountain hut at 2 am high on adrenalin with your flickering head torch and ice picks. Boy, did nature reveal its majesty and glory at those moments when the sun began to tentatively rise and spread a glimpse of the new day across the inky black horizon.
Read 26 tweets
6 Mar
Sunbathing in a building site...why not?h
Plus I should mention that we published the latest confessions podcast yesterday
or you can listen to the thing at...

buzzsprout.com/1017043/8084063
Read 7 tweets
6 Mar
Back in the day, some amazing institutions would give me $100m clips to invest. They would do a ton of due diligence. They asked so many questions but I always thought they missed one crucial question. What were you listening to at the age of eleven?
Me? I loved the first album of Adam and the Ants. It was the bridge between Punk and the age of the New Romantics. I was hooked. Watch the video of Kings of the Wild Frontier...i so wanted that jacket !
To understand the man you need to consider what they listened to as a child in those formative years when the brain cells fuse together. And remember, that "below those dandy clothes you’re just a shade too white"...
music.apple.com/gb/music-video…
Read 4 tweets
27 Feb
Looking back, i constantly bang myself for spening too much time living in the future - what the legendary James Dines referred to as a lower state of being, a dog of doom perhaps? When everyone knows that the greatest wisdom comes from being in the present, the yogi Ohm...right?
Fake Bono...
Better a life spent wrestling with reality, in the here and now, rather than conspiring with an imaginary hypothesis? But then i read Schopenhauer again and as a committed fantasist my spirits soar, for he reminds me that you might call this celebration of NOW a common falsehood
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