{"id":8941,"date":"2008-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"cramers-mad-money-recap-hedge-fund-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/cramers-mad-money-recap-hedge-fund-madness.html","title":{"rendered":"Cramer&#8217;s &#8216;Mad Money&#8217; Recap: Hedge-Fund Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Street &#8211; Forced selling by hedge funds is behind the late-day market volatility these days, Jim Cramer told the viewers of his &quot;Mad Money&quot; TV show Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>He fears we may never see a bottom until the selling comes to an end. <\/p>\n<p>Cramer said many hedge fund strategies have just been dead wrong, such as the betting on a Chinese recovery after the Olympics that failed to materialize. As evidence, he used the Baltic Dry Shipping Index and the Shanghai Composite Index to graphically show how much China&#8217;s economy has slowed. <\/p>\n<p>The result of hedge funds gone bad is forced selling, he said. At around 2:45 p.m. each day, hedge funds begin preparing for the next day&#8217;s round of redemptions by liquidating their ill-conceived positions. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/print\/story\/10443997.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Street &#8211; Forced selling by hedge funds is behind the late-day market volatility these days, Jim Cramer told the viewers of his &quot;Mad Money&quot; TV show Thursday. He fears we may never see a bottom until the selling comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3347,528,327,3348,716,989],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-franklin-resources-inc","tag-lu","tag-manhattan","tag-oral-hearings","tag-pariah","tag-reuters-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}