Wow, so some crank friend of yours demands to be paid in "wealth" and that suddenly becomes the normative standard for terminology in discussing...
Wow, you really miss the forest for the trees, eh? While the money/wealth distinction is useful in general, in the context of this debate...
How so? I think there are vendors who border on being con artists who push mass psychology as part of their "products" (any vendor selling...
I could have easily said "wealth" instead of "money" in the employment example. As an employee of a company, I have a claim on some of the wealth...
Your objection 1 is only true IF the other 9 applicants are able to get another job which pays equal to the one I got over them. If they are...
How is this any different from the fact that if I get a job and 9 other people who applied don't, 90% of the applicants lost? It happens all the...
Definitely the intellectual challenge of figuring out the market puzzle. All of you guys who are so worried about "social value" should just...
Anytime I sense the potential to get whipsawed, it's tough to enter because I absolutely hate getting whipsawed.
I agree. The time to think about your strategy and its signals is after-hours, not during.
Says the guy touting his 1-month returns in his sig.
You make some very good points. I definitely don't view winning percentage in itself as an important characteristic and agree that a strategy has...
Not only is the trader with a 30% success ratio more dependent on a single winning trade, he's also less able to determine the moment at which his...
Why would you not trade as many contracts as you can so long as your VaR at your maximum loss point is less than the optimal percentage bet based...
Just think of an elephant eating an orange.
Hey, thanks for the reply, but I didn't mean to imply I thought there was an arbitrage play here. I agree that if there was one, it would be for...
Because I need the nearly 24/7 access to maximize the potential of my strategy, I'm going with the ES using stop limit orders, based on what the...
I guess I'm implicitly assuming that I'm getting a good value on average, so long as my winning trade percentage is higher than my losing trade...
All things considered, the Holy Grail might just be the ability to withstand drawdowns. Why? Well, in my own case, I have a strategy which...
I was not clear that I'm not looking for gamma to go up, just to have some positive impact so that the synthetic 500 SPY shares/1 ES contract is...
True, but in this situation, I think the relevant comparison is the gamma for a high-delta option vs. the complete lack of gamma in the ES. You...
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