Im a trader and collect dividends all the time. I also end up paying some for short positions. Overall though it adds to the bottom line nicely.
BJS/SPN does look like a decent short, there is a nice fundamental edge there as well
archie karas is a famous story of turning a few bucks into millions then losing it all in a week. It happens now and again, you just have to have...
If you take a trade and have no reason for it, you deserve to lose. You can do everything right and research the heck out of your trades and...
One does not lead the other, they trade independently of each other the reason that they trade with each other is arbitrage. An institution can...
ES is the mini futures contract for the S&P500. It does not "follow" the cash market. It trades at a fair value to it.
this is the same "trader" who had their pump and dump penny stock thread removed 2 days ago. Totally clueless. I've been long FCX and short BHP...
your understanding of market mechanics is flawed. One doesn't "follow" the other necessarily. ES trades at a premium or discount to the fair...
the people you are referring to are technical analysts of stocks, so their expertise is looking at volume, RSI, support, resistance, chart...
trading a tight relationship like that is very difficult, similar to trading a/b stock pairs or mergers. if the markets are moving fast,...
you trade with the imbalance, you can LOC, MOC, or just get out before the bell. AHL, WCN, IR, SY were good for me today, BAC had 17 million to...
I trade a portfolio of pairs with a fundamental bias based on P/B, P/E, dividends, and also a technical bias based on trend and moving averages.
Art of the arb is general pairs trading intraday using simple straight forward strategies and it also contains recaps of Rob and Steve's thoughts...
I trade a portfolio between 350k to 600k in pairs positions with position sizes at 100 or 200 shares for each layer of my pairs and about 50...
If you cannot clearly define your edge, you don't have one. Don't trade if you don't have an edge. As a previous post stated, write a business...
The Zoetrading platform ATS trades through RediPlus and actually submits orders and automatically cancels and replaces fishing orders in the...
In my experience diversification with as many different pairs as possible is the best way to go. There are a lot of pairs out there right now...
averaging down is a perfectly legitimate strategy if your plan calls for it, especially if you are using a statiscal arbitrage strategy, however,...
In my experience, you want to embrace the risk of stock vs. stock pairs instead of ETF's because you get much more oppurtunity, especially when...
there are a lot of prop firms that could care less what you do with your capital or your account. They make money off you no matter what you do....
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