"Compromise" is possible when only people share basic assumptions. That's no longer the case in the US and the "problem" of not sharing basic...
I don't view politics as being about "change", but about "power". I don't like people, regardless of how well-meaning they say they are, having...
I've got the opposite problem. What's the point in trading well if the profits will just go to some parasite, whether that parasite is a welfare...
Honestly, I don't even have the energy to begin to debunk the amount of strawmen and false choices, along with the pseudo-fatalistic invocations...
Einzig died in 1973. While I'm not a believer in the idea that someone's ideas can't be based on permanent principles, rather than fleeting...
Ultimately, you guys are all missing the big picture, which is that we need to find a way to divide the country into two separate geographic...
All the more reason for the US to ramp up oil (and energy in general) production.
Every industry has its "quantity" plays and its "quality" plays. If you think what you have to offer is a commodity (in the pejorative sense of...
Yep, if you need a multi-paragraph thesis to justify your trade, it's probably not going to work out for you, you might as well call it an...
"The higher it goes the more toppy it will become" is a tautology, since the market can't top unless it makes a high. It does nothing to help...
Any conspiracy that grows beyond a certain size will have at least one member incompetent enough to reveal it to the larger public. Once that...
As a rule, I consider every conspiracy theory which requires a conspiracy larger than the largest conspiracy ever uncovered to be false. If a...
I've gotten good info from people who know a thing or two about testing strategies against randomness, curve-fitting and performance metrics....
While I agree with much of what you're saying, here are a couple of things surprise me about the unremittingly negative posters: 1. Those same...
Some will disagree with me about that, but it seems to me that we are all trying to do the same thing, which is to put the odds in our favor....
Right, I know that. But, what I'm saying is that, in the final analysis, even TA is itself a "statistical study", just with a different data set...
Absolutely, it does. That's because bad traders "know" things at such a high level as to be worthless. People who know that you have to "buy...
Once you have a number of trades, executed on whatever basis, aren't you using statistics when you pick and choose among your future trade...
"Trouble" is my middle name :) No, I can see what you mean by that when you say people aren't receptive to the idea. Also, there are some...
Sometimes I wonder why any trader would write a book about trading. Unless you are keen to give away the details of your trading methods, it will...
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