I'd wait after Bernanke speech at 3.30pm
Momentarily close my paper short at 1740.25 +17 pts at present Max drawdown 17.25 pt which lasted 9 days from entry (even if at first trade was...
Generic Trade is an IB for Ironbeam, Zumo is a division of Ironbeam. With Zumo you pay 50 cents instead of 59. If you use Firetip you have no...
Maybe there was a typo in your information, it was October 2031 instead of October 2013? :D
Paper short ES at 1757.25
To get a better idea, I took the values of SP500 Total Return at http://ycharts.com/indices/%5ESPXTR: Current SPTR:3150 SPTR on Jun 1988:271 -...
I want to gain a lot of "paper" money, but most of all... I want to do The Halloween Short :)
For me what's bearish is that they didn't increase QE. Now 85 billions/month are too few :D
Still not convinced. Are firms which failed taken into account?Are firms with no dividend taken into account? Is the tradingjournals' survivor...
Is it the net after taxes that goes into investors pockets?
I didn't think about the survivor bias in indexes, but I think their quotes are still quite representative of the behaviour of all stocks. See for...
I think so.Tomorrow I will paper short the ES.
I took the Dow quotes as an example for all most important stocks, but dividends is another matter: they vary too much. And where did you find...
Where do you find 3% a year? Statistics say for example something like 2,3% for SP500 and 1,4% for NASDAQ, but we don't have the average for ALL...
Buffet 20% a year was luck (besides his skills) due to this special period (1970-2000). Buffet himself knows that and in 2000 said "I won't be...
Hey guys, how about learning some math and picking up correct data? Are you able to use a calculator? From Wikipedia: Dow Jones starting year:...
Don't worry, I know mathematics and know what I'm saying. Mine are not statistics (I'd need a book to write the whole thing down, including...
Nikkei Dec 1989: 39000, today 14300, avg return per year=8%? Nasdaq Composite Mar 2000: 5000, today 4000, avg return per year=8%? S&P500 Mar...
If you use words like "by far" you may have already done enough analysis, at least at an unconscious level. Let me tell you my experience.I began...
When in summer Bernanke announced a possible tapering,before a not so big market decline there was a good spike up. Even if they are not like in...
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