understand the chinese tourist naturally more, because you are chinese versus sheldon adelson or steve wynnhat is an advantage we would have as well. i was born in hong kong. spent time in hong kong and macau. at the same time was educated in north america. i get a good sense of the best of both worlds. the formation of melco crown 10 years ago was based on that belief. how do i marry the best of the east with the best of the west? >> it is easy to see the asian touches when you walk around his properties. companies. the dragons. the feng shui that he incorporates into the layout. >> when we first started, it was gold and iron metal bars. it resembled the bamboo, but then feng shui came in and said no, no. it has to be real. >> but adelson, who once called himself the richest jew in the world, says there is no monopoly on culture. >> by vast majority, most of our employees are chinese. my chinese dealers andmy chinese service people interact with chinese customers. what is the difference? >> they would say they know the people. they are chinese. they know what they want. >> i can't be a suc

the smallest violin in the world is playing for steve wynn right now. the trade on the casinos? >> stay put. wait to see how macaw turns around. get the pure macaw play, not wynn. >> love that play. jane wells is the answer. >> i hope jane is listening. no, no, no. when it comes for casinos, would you opt for a u.s.-centric casino play? >> the macaw name has gotten beaten up. wynn held 140 a number of times, trade wynn on the long side against 140 which is basically twar right now. >> microsoft one of the hottest trades in 2014 and a big trader made a run today that it could take a breather. dan is over at the big board with the action. dan? >> won't be anything financial this week. options market implying a 2% move between now and the weekend. that's more reflective of the volatility environment that we're in. it ran three times average daily and one really large trade that caught my eye. that is a year from now, trader sold 15,000 of the jan 16 calls at 1.50 and likely did that against a long stock. 420,000 shares at 46.35. this was likely an override

and you said steve wynn is going create something in vegas.these long-term ideas which you're famous for, what's the thing that we'll sit here saying wow we were early and we got it right? >> well we have in our firm -- we manage $26.8 billion. and we have 450 investments. and the top ten represent 18% of our assets because they've been very successful investments. we have 38 investments that are over $200 million. there are only two of those that are over $200 million investing. tesla is one. manchester united is another. and both of those have been made in the past year year and a half, two years. and those are the only two that are even. the others are all big increases. i think for example, manchester united is going to be this fantastic business. i'll make two or three times our money in four or five years. i think tesla in ten years, we'll make ten times our money. so i think we have $2 billion in tesla. >> i mean viewers know tesla. they know the story. what is the manchester united story? what is misunderstood? that's your specialty un

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