People discuss strategies here on ET like it is life or death. This is one of 10 equity and future strategies I employ. When you learn to see the market as a game and financial laboratory, you will truly understnad the difference between risk capital and rent money. I'm in this for the ride, not to be the next Warren Buffett. So what. I lost 5K.
Trading is a game for a$$holes. You need to out a$$ the other a$$holes. What's not to like about doubling your cash, Goliath? Unless you're a disgruntled, broke trader.
Yep. Trick is spending a billion in one place and doubling it. You'd have to diversify like any billion$ fund mgr which means diminishing returns.
Absolutely Ashcroft! For now, I'm with Scottrade. $7 per side, market or limit. If this works out and my positions are at least 5000 share blocks, might have to go with a professional execution platform.
Actually, there are several that have 100% returns on an annual basis. In fact, if you were using a rolling 52week chart of the entire market, you will always find several with 100% returns. Of course there is some juggling to do since injecting $100k into the market is different than injecting $100M into the market. As of today, the top gunners are NEU (+264.36%), CLB (+137.48%), LVS(+137.40%), AMR (+126.61%), and PCLN (+120.31%). 52 weeks from today, there will be another set who have >100% return. The question is how to pick them off... It is alot easier than most can concieve and I have executed and explained it many times. 99% of the time, it just was not suited for folks personalities, specifically SITTING ON THEIR HANDS and keeping oneself from getting hyper as the capital appreciates. The funny thing is that people have no problem sitting on long drawdowns in the hopes that the asset cycles back. However, as soon as some gains are in place, folks are quick to pull those gains off the table. I showed the concept to a physicist who sits in the office next to me. It took him 30 seconds to realize how to do it but that's simply because we can relate the matter to simulating a generic stochastic interest rate process. The critical points are the crossovers...
As Shakespeare would surely have said: "Methinks thou art a shithead." Hey, don't look at me. It was Shakespeare.