Attention....Could I have your attention please!

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Rickshaw Man, Jan 30, 2019.

  1. Your not paying attention:

    On the other hand, buying and selling during the day has generally been a money-losing strategy — one that would have been far more painful if you had traded frequently, incurring steep costs, which would have compounded your losses.
     
    #11     Jan 30, 2019
  2. smallfil

    smallfil

    Now, that everyone knows the strategy, what happens when and if everyone starts doing it?
    More buyers at the end of the day will mean higher prices? After all, the law of supply and demand still exists? More sellers the next day and not enough buyers will crash the prices?
    Unintended consequences. Successful stock traders have an edge they use to make monies in the stockmarket, you do not see them going out and spreading it for everyone to use do you?
     
    #12     Jan 30, 2019
  3. Twenty six years of data, 21.00% a year on average. Call it what you want.
     
    #13     Jan 30, 2019
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  4. Just keep following the gurus. An argument can be made for everything.
     
    #14     Jan 30, 2019
  5. Exactly... make it your own. Just trying to help folks.
     
    #15     Jan 30, 2019
    fan27 likes this.
  6. On average 20.00% annually.
     
    #16     Jan 30, 2019
  7. I didn't say the notion "hasn't had merit", but we should also consider the caveat. Since 1982, we've had the biggest decline in interest rates and the biggest money-pump by the Fed in all of financial history. Likely not the same in the future.
     
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    #17     Jan 30, 2019
  8. Since the strategy is a long only, i fail to see how FOMC printing would be a negative.
     
    #18     Jan 30, 2019
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  9. It's not. It's a big factor in how positive it has been. Will "such conditions" (lowering rates a large amount and "print-money") continue to be the same in the future?
     
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    #19     Jan 30, 2019
  10. smallfil

    smallfil

    I do not follow any guru. No different than following any study. You have to have your own opinion as long as you have tested it yourself.
     
    #20     Jan 30, 2019