The source for the stats: http://www.marketfolly.com/2009/05/barrons-hedge-fund-rankings-2009-top.html Barron's Hedge Fund Top 100 averaged...
Buying the underlying commodity is a valid alternative, but if your holding with the view of receiving a passive dividend of somekind, then owning...
I posted a long term recommendation on BHP a month ago a few posts back of mine and its doing really well so far. RTP (Rio Tinto) is probably just...
What was the ***last*** thing you had to master before becoming profitable? Reading and/or posting on www.elitetrader.com.
Basically you want to know the durability of the moat of your edges. Well, all i can say is that some edges show up for weeks, some for a few...
a) I can handle 20 losing trades if they are equal to 2% of my account balance in total (i.e. 20 x 0.1% of fixed account balance risked at the...
Yeah we were having this conversation in chat a couple of Fridays ago, where you take a few losses in a row and alot of guys go down in there...
Interesting thread. In the same period SPY was roughly -36%. (dividends excluded) What about emerging markets for the long haul? To quote Jim...
All good and fair points, but the question remains, his stock portfolio of large caps as it stands has gone basically sideways over the last five...
Skip this part if you just want to read the ARTICLE, below: You only have to look at Buffetts portfolio of large cap. publicly traded stock...
Lets say a successful trader decided to make an investment in a portfolio of "safe" stocks/real estate/bonds etc a year ago order to 'take it...
You can easily daytrade a $300 million stake with low or zero leverage in fx markets. But there is no-one (yet) that made the Forbes list doing...
One mans toxic investment=another mans windfall Trillions of dollars in toxic loans/cmo's/investments made went somewhere right? Those...
excerpt from his FT article where he talks about the trades he made in 2008: THE SOROS INVESTMENT YEAR: Positions I took were too big for ever...
"Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do" J.P. Morgan I guess using your logic then, JP Morgan was also "someone who wildly chants...
I don't like to blow my own trumpet but theres alot of ignorance on this thread. Here is a live call I made only 2 days ago in ET chat based on...
I was planning to share a bit more of how I day trade the various moon phases as any of the active traders in ET chat have heard me recently make...
Attached is a daily eurusd chart for this year and I have marked in the occurence of new and full moons. A number of systems can be designed...
filter, filter, filter...:) keep those charts coming!
Thanks for posting this. Could you generate and post more charts like this (like the one without the gaps)? It looks so "real". Why do I see...
Separate names with a comma.