You can never replicate the spot returns of a commodity. Unless you buy physical and store it at your house. And even that costs money...
A blast from the past: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/japans-debt-downgraded-as-yen-dives-1154414.html Japan's debt downgraded...
I wonder the same when I see business school professors selling MBA courses and business books. If running a profitable business was so simple...
What you're looking to do is called "backward adjusting" of historic future contract data. Here's a good introduction:...
I refrain from shorting things when they have been strong. Silver is no exception. I'll happily play the short side once it sells off and makes...
Obviously 99% of their desks' business is quoting institutional customers bid and ask prices and ripping them off in the process. I am surprised...
Look at it this way: the speculators now help up drive cotton which in turn will convince more farmers around the world to commit acreage to...
That's your assumption though. What makes you think all traders are forced to conform their own skillset to one certain trading approach? Why...
I recently went from a HDD based system to an SSD based one and apart from 30-40% faster boot times I notice the loading and saving of big files...
How do you arrive at such an absolute statement? How do you know one can easily be taught and the other simply can't be easily taught? I am...
100% annual returns in a near-normal distribution imply a catastrophic monthly drawdown of 100% to happen every 24 months or so. If you shoot...
The proof is out there and not hard to find. Go through a list of well-known hedge funds. Many are as successful if not more successful in...
You're comparing a self-employed entrepreneur making $15.50 an hour (which basically puts him in the group of a median worker with the additional...
I don't understand why people would say that a trader has to learn to trade a certain method or market, even if he's untalented in that particular...
Most traditional business start ups fail because the wanna-be entrepreneurs are under-capitalized and go into their venture with unrealistic...
Four years of outperformance by the SP500 vs. HFRI certainly doesn't help attract money of private individuals that tend to look at returns more...
I have met dozens of people in my life with great "thoughts" and "dreams" of turning their ideas (business, independence etc.) into reality....
In many European countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Austria) college and university education up to a master's degree is...
The only thing more pathetic than calling the top/end of the market(s) at any given point in time is calling the end of trend following...
CAL 44.82 -2.61 (-5.50%) UAUA 44.81 -3.94 (-8.08%) LUV 15.37 -0.14 (-0.90%) Not a bad call on the airliners there.
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