{"id":2582,"date":"2006-09-21T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-09-21T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T21:10:00","slug":"up-and-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/09\/21\/17\/10\/up-and-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Up and Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/nationalpost\/financialpost\/story.html?id=7dbce877-a0c5-4f0c-bd9c-6526eb7a60c0&#038;k=9750\">Brian Hunter, 32, raked in an estimated US$75-million to US$100-million in 2005, good for a share of 29th spot in Trader Monthly&#8217;s annual ranking. Mr. Hunter generated US$800-million in profit for his employer, Amaranth Group Inc., making him one of the world&#8217;s top natural-gas traders.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB115861715980366723-lMyQjAxMDE2NTE4OTYxMTk3Wj.html\">Of all the traders gambling big sums on energy, a 32-year-old Canadian named Brian Hunter made some of the brashest bets and the fastest money. Last week, he fell hard &#8230; Mr. Hunter headed the energy desk for a Connecticut hedge fund called Amaranth Advisors. At the end of August, trading natural gas, he was up approximately $2 billion for the year. Then Mr. Hunter lost roughly $5 billion, in about a week.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hunter, 32, raked in an estimated US$75-million to US$100-million in 2005, good for a share of 29th spot in Trader Monthly&#8217;s annual ranking. Mr. Hunter generated US$800-million in profit for his employer, Amaranth&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}