jackflash, have you always day-traded or you tried swing trading as well? I know you've traded commodities, I guess you did some position trading...
No - because everyone else can make their own rules as well. In fact this would make the game even more complex than a "simple" Texas Hold'em game...
Maxpi's analogy comparing the market to a single opponent is weak. The market is the result of combined actions of many opponents. I prefer a...
What's the investment horizon? A year, or more ?
Whether or not there is a dependency in price is irrelevant. What is important is that you have perfect competition looking for patterns - only...
I wish it was as simple as classical mechanics :) When I say impossible to understand, I am talking about complex adaptive systems - things that...
I acknowledge that every system has some bias, some non-randomness to it, including a roulette wheel or a dice. But how do you find that bias? You...
Traders fail because the market is perfectly competitive, therefore unpredictable and random, and they are trading noise. It's the same as playing...
Gabfly1, you are not asking the right question :) First of all, what difference would it make what everyone believes. You should have...
But I am also interested why so many people voted commodities and how would they implement such strategy :confused:
I didn't vote for commodities but if I had, I would buy the PowerShares Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Traking Fund ETF [DBC] - it is the most...
I don't think governments will allow water monopoly... Electricity generation for example is state owned in most countries.
That would probably be a very competitive business, there is nothing difficult in processing water. So I doubt that these companies will be a good...
This would be the best choice, perhaps, but there is a big difference in that you will actually have to work or at least exercise continuous...
As a matter of fact I haven't put art and jewelry in the options, because they are not securitized, but I doubt that this is what he has in mind...
Anyone else? Let's make it a respectable 100 votes!
It seems that half of the voters prefer their capital to be in real assets (gold, commodities, real estate)... But it'd be great to have some more...
That's a great one :D
We are getting interesting results so far :)
Completely agree about inactivity. What I can't figure out is the explanation why is it so difficult to go with the trend on the way down? I...
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