I specifically asked about market returns, not about the visual look of stock charts. According to your theory, in any timeframe (daily, weekly,...
Are market returns displaying a random distribution, like coin flips do?
Read this book if you believe material gains and money make us happy: "The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse"...
20 years ago people were moaning about program trading now they whine about algo trading. There's always a scape goat du jour. "You adapt,...
I'd want to own oil MLPs.
I agree, let's just say though that life in the US over the last 30 years has been terribly good so let's not complain. IMO many have forgotten...
The good thing is that all those who believe gold and other precious metals will help them preserve their wealth in the future can simply hedge...
These computer driven trades rarely represent directional risk trades. Rather they represent arbitrage trades of different global petroleum...
Inflation benefits all those families who are heavily in debt. The debt they owe will eventually become worthless and they can pay it back with...
When Volcker started raising rates in the early 80s gold went from $500 to $800. The threat of rate hikes doesn't mean precious metals have to...
These stories of huge factories/hotels/department stores selling for a single ounce of gold are fairy tales at best. To my knowledge, there is no...
Looks like the ECB didn't learn much from their debacle in the Summer of 2008. Rinse and repeat.
I have to disagree. IB have hands down the best short availability I've seen in any other comparable broker. I've been shorting hundreds of...
Bernie Madoff would be proud of that equity curve.
The poster assumes there are tradable (exploitable) trends in random data. There aren't. Try it in Excel. Throw up 1000 random time series and...
Raj Rajaratnam.
In the last 18 months we could well have had a 30% bear market. Afterwards we could have attributed perfectly logical explanations and...
I know first hand there are a number of wealthy people living on their yacht getting busted by tax authorities around the world every year. If...
Quite shocking. Some people have no problem buying $75 high grade motor oil for their car but would never pay $20 for a bottle of high quality...
Prechter isn't trading, he's selling newsletters. Repeatedly calling for new bear market lows is more headline grabbing than predicting a boring,...
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