No foul. Damages are damages. Doesn't matter whether you started with $10 million and lost it all that way or during the same time you made $10 million and then lost it.
Now the defendants knew it was easy to prove I didn't start with $10 million. Where they've got some problems is explaining how I had one trade of $250,000, another of $115,000, one of $85,000 and dozens at $10-50,000 a pop. But all of those trades were trades held overnight on my own, or held all day, trades I chose myself. BUT, on the millions of scalp garbage kickback trades Rea called, I lost all of it back.
Losses are losses, whether you lose your inheritance or you lose the work and profit of two years.
I wasn't going to discuss this, but I decided there's no harm, because the defendants surely know it.
I think the jury will see how quickly this adds up to $10 million, with $1/4 million, $115,000 there - all blown on kickback advice. Now you begin to see how someone could lose $10 million and it not sink in: it was being made and lost at virtually the same time.
Furthermore, when we discuss damages from opportunities lost, what those are, the jury can look at some of the gigantic trades I did nail, on my own, wonder why Rea never called those, and then start thinking how much that might have been. |
