Sorry, Baron. I debated whether to include a link to the posting (not sure whether I wanted to continue to aid and abet a self-promotor). The...
Back on Aug. 8th in the Trading forum, I replied to a posting that I knew was self-promotion. An person whose user name was identical to that of...
Nice analysis, BKuerbs. I should have recognized the Chebycheff's inequality numbers (the probability of a random variable differing from its...
I used the formulas for the binomial distribution from the CRC Math Handbook, which is the exact same formula quoted by BKerbs on page 3 of this...
RE: Data on N100 Stocks: Oh goody, yummy yummy data! Thanx jperl. Now, lets look at the results of coin-toss, using the binomial...
OK, you are right. I guess I was not very clear on what I meant by believing in streaks. The issue is that there are two definitions or...
Martingale strategy is a money management or bet-sizing strategy of doubling the bet size after a loss (see also...
The 50 +- 5, 5000 +- 50 is exactly right. Two issues here: 1) If price movement were like a 50-50 coin flip (thus having a standard...
www.dovebid.com is heavily into business auctions of the type you mention. I've never used them, but they do handle a fair number of office...
Hmmm... first posting by "Mark Conway" is a book cowritten by Mark Conway. May I assume that you are a coauthor on the book that you are...
You might take a look at "Trading Systems That Work" by Thomas Stridsman. It does discuss some of the areas that you mention. Note that this...
Aug 14th and Y2K are not comparable for two reasons: 1) Y2K was flogged to death by the media, Aug 14th gets barely a mention. 2) Y2K...
If you are superstitious, you could try going heavily short on the stock just before the close. That should make it go up overnite, right?:D...
Forget the "historical" average for P/E values. Too many investors have had their fingers burned by the current bear. It will take time for...
RE: Stop-loss Whether you use a stop-loss order to limit losses or to protect open profits depends on your beliefs about how prices behave....
ROTFLMAO! And, I notice that the Blue Line shot up after 4:30 PM, so only people holding Blue Line Index Futures overnight or those trading the...
As rs7 points out, paper trading is different from real trading. Leaving aside the massive subjective issues of having real money at stake in...
LOL!:D OK, this is getting interesting and exactly my point -- the rules ain't the same for every trader or trading system. It looks like: 1)...
Actually, all I'm saying is that each trader needs to test these rules, not assume that they are true. I'm glad that you have learned that...
I used to think that if enough trading books said it was true, then it was true. For example, "cut your losses short" seems like a very...
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