It's only carnage if you're long. Cut your losses. But I, too, am surprised by the sharpness of the move. Wow!
Have no clue what the German guy said in German, but I've got a different question... Greentradertax says the German owes US tax on the income...
Good point, candletrader. In fact, if Mr. Scientist is making money but only having tiny little drawdowns, he could be making so much more money...
Can you give us the context in which it was used? I believe an external series would be a time series other than the price of your tradeable....
For years I've been having dreams where I can fly like Superman.
100%+ annual returns aren't very common. Make sure you have a Plan B.
What is w3/w6 oil blend? I've heard of wd30 and 3-in-1 oil, but I wouldn't want to eat them. The spinach & cheese omlet sounds good!
Print out your post, Flashboy. Someday you'll be a 50-lot trader and you'll come across your post and think back to your early days and the joy...
You're not kidding, Aaron, about the long term trend followers having problems. John Henry's results are up at his website www.jwh.com and June...
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I thought there was an exchange imposed 250 contract limit per trade. How could someone do 50k contracts? Are the limits not enforced on Globex...
Aha. Thanks, chinook. That rings a bell that premiums are only deductible against earned income. That makes the strategy of hiring your spouse...
Health insurance premiums are partially deductible, sometimes even 100% deductible if I recall correctly, at varying percentages over the next 10...
Good point. And I'm not suggesting finding a profitable strategy might not take X years or an additional Y years to be able to even know a...
Yep. You got it, Chinook. Next steps (depending on how aggressive you want to be taxwise): Hire your spouse. Provide her and her family with...
I disagree that it takes X years to become profitable. I think it takes however long it takes to find/create/buy/steal/invent/learn a profitable...
I'd agree it's a waste of time to try to figure it out when I could just tell you. Here's the answer: The savings on slippage and the speed of...
A CME membership only makes sense if you do above 10k round trips per month in CME products. Divide the cost of leasing a seat by the difference...
Here's part of a post of Gordon Gekko's: <font class="quo"><blockquote><hr size="1">i recently bought a new computer and copied my old hard...
From the article it sounds like the pay, stress, and turnover is pretty high among SAC employees.
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