This is sticky stuff especially with hundreds of trades a year. The letter from the IRS, a year and a half later from the tax year in question,...
If you are talking about choppiness in "short term" pricing, it is all part of the randomness and chaotic nature that exists. By the time the...
Jim Cramer has a colorful history. We can figure that he's made millions from "The Street", "Mad Money", and as an author. Prior to that, as a...
Those systems are "black box" affairs. As the systems on C2 operate in opacity, you will never know what the logic is behind them. Even if they...
You can see the various displays of technical indicators within a timeline from 2004 - 2009 from one of the most popular financial blogs...
Good to clear that up .. the combination of: 1) fear of loss ( loss of capital that you "care" about ) and 2) uncertainty ( the strategy needs...
Examine your use of the words and phrases "feel" and "seems to have" and "not sure". As one of my financial planner mentors asks " Do you have a...
I used to trade many markets in the late 80's + 90's. I occasionally used leverage. Didn't have instant real time charts and hand plotted...
Taxes ... Yet another, rarely mentioned, time consuming and expense bite ( using a tax preparer for a yearly $400 bucks and up ) that trading...
Which markets are you trading? Are you trading off of chart patterns? Are you day trading / short term trading ? Are you using leverage? Are you...
It's interesting that a whole cottage industry has spawned quant outfits * and products that are generating programs to disseminate an edge from...
The shorter the trading / analysis period, the closer towards 50/50 ( random ) that you get. Keying ( equity ) investment positions and analysis...
It's because basing decisions on the short term doesn't pan out. Short term price action is "random" in nature; with large funds scaling in and...
How can you backtest something that is based on subjectivity ? http://www.psyfitec.com/2010/12/technical-analysis-on-display.html
Old trading adage ... don't quit your day job ...
The S&P500 is the standard benchmark in the financial industry. Small cap value * has been academically proven to produce highest decile alpha...
Good revelation NXT7. There is a perception that a backtesting package can provide an "answer", when it basically is a database machine that can...
Just don't quit your day job ( because you think that you can be a trader )
Invest in markets that have provided a statistical "edge". The U.S. equities markets are supported by good policy, monetary stability, consistent...
Who is "everyone else" ?
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