I used Alpaca for a few months and stopped recently. It's an okay platform but very young, so be prepared to see some mistakes. Their system...
why does the price of a seat fluctuate so much?
I was looking at leasing an IOM seat to reduce my commissions and CME has the historical purchase prices for these seats back to 1990. Right now...
did you guys read the original post? this new book has the following superstars! - A trader who turned an initial account of $2,500 into $50...
I love the irony. maybe you're right. without any hard proof how can you really be sure, right? u a smart kid
haha why the animosity?
How do audit someone with 50 accounts and just shows you one account where they took risks and hit the ball out of the park? this happens ALL the...
you're right, i'm just judging the cover. the COVER contains impossible claims only a sucker can believe. I can also set up 50 accounts, fund...
survivorship biase is a generous interpretation. selective accounting is the more likely explanation.
scam artists hahaha has anyone done the math on HOW incredibly wealthy these traders are right now...all billionaires now!!! before you feel...
if trend * discipline = 1, then leverage = 1 else leverage = 0
whenever your backtest is showing a sharpe ratio above 5, you have a fundamental error like look-ahead biase. overfitting usually doesn't produce...
while i agree that this forum is too negative at times with lots of dumbasses, i would just offer my words of caution. The market that we're...
agreed. linear regression is powerful and generalized enough to work well in most cases.
yeah Taleb wasn't just mechanically buying vol, he was picking his spots. but even experts like him and his associates couldn't make money over...
you probably would never know whether you will regret the move. tough to track execution slippage you get at Schwab, but you will surely have...
trend following systems = let your profit run until it goes parabolic or breaks trend mean reversion systems = take profit after reversion you...
Markets are pretty efficient, just not all the time. you can make a lot of money with a 51% win rate system assuming a 1:1 RR as long as you do...
btw, let's not talk about theory. Let's look at the numbers. Over the last 50 years, you would have lost your shirtS (probably your whole...
Assness is right on tail hedge. Taleb's theory is useless. plus he is a complete ass. saw him on a flight once acting like a spoiled...
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