Halloween 2008Halloween 2008 | Scariest One Yet2008 is proving to be the hardest market which hedge funds have faced since the first hedge fund was formed half a century ago. The top 5 scariest things about the current financial crisis and the state of the hedge fund industry:Hedge fund gating clauses, lock-up periods and other agreements screen the true level of hedge fund redemptions. Is it hard to know how much capital is waiting to leave the industry.While I don't believe is, Soros could be right. The hedge fund industry could shrink by over 50% and it could take 5-7 years to climb out of that hole as an industry.I have not ran an analysis of this yet, but I seem to be seeing more frequent cases of hedge fund ...