I completely agree. {edit} Should point out too that I wasn't claiming that my second strat has a 3.4 Sharpe. Only the first one. That is why...
100% agree with what you are saying. But that doesn't negate my points either. I recently calculated my Sharpe (weekly returns) for 2010. Right...
Yes, I said most.. not all. There are a few whom I know from personal association are the real deal. Two of them have left recently and don't...
+1 Wasn't hard at all to get a couple hundred thousand in conventional debt at <10% interest a few years back. By the time I was thinking...
You are acting as if I said that there was a cutoff at $30MM. That is not at all what I said. I said returns start to diminish after $8MM-ish....
Why is it that Ben Bernanke always gets nailed to the wall and not one word is ever said about the guy who actually contributed more to this...
Well, many of the absolute most successful traders aren't interested in OPM because they face scalability problems. It takes a couple years to...
I really was asking a serious question though. I wasn't trying to be facetious. I know there were several alternative fuel tax credits and...
I'm just wondering to which tax cuts are we referring? Are we talking about the Bush tax cuts that were simply not left to expire? I'm only...
Please don't take this the wrong way, but given your comments I think you're going to end up looking for another day job within 2 years of...
I would wager my entire trading account that at least 9 of the 10 traders you know aren't beating the broader indexes each year. I'm not trying...
A huge portion of the population looks at the current situation and realizes that Romney was in fact most equipped to handle the challenges of the...
No, in fact it is generally accepted fact that many players utilize such tools. Calculating odds can be done by a good player in his head on the...
I should've attached a better explanation, but I didn't. I wasn't referring to gambling in the classical sense of the word. IOW, to risk money...
Agree with what surf said for the most part, but would like to point out that for about 99% of traders, there will be no discernible difference...
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Objectively speaking, it wouldn't really matter if certain info had been deleted and filler substituted in its place. There isn't any way they...
The whole arena is hype anyway. Your biggest players in the poker world are miniscule in comparison to their counterparts in the trading world....
I was with you during the last election. At the time, he was the best man for the job. I was convinced of it then, and with 20/20 hindsight he...
I like the fact that StockStalker brought up Neve's performance because it also demonstrates the other point nicely. At the end of last year...
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