Edge types, efficiency, etc

Discussion in 'Trading' started by New2thegame, Jan 10, 2010.

  1. spindr0

    spindr0

    It depends on your metric and time frame. My first exposure to pairs trading was 20+ yrs ago when I came across the strategy of buying Value Line ranked #1 stocks and shorting the #5's. That would make sense for "investing" per se. For short term trading, one would want overvalued versus undervalued, regardless of the quality. There a e many ways to skin the sking. Some even work :)
     
    #131     Jan 14, 2010
  2. You included ;) I get it though... Just a squirrel vying for a nut. Wisdom peeks through here and there and it's helpful.

     
    #132     Jan 14, 2010
  3. I would agree with this. Even things such as quantum theory which are generally conceived as chaotic, in my estimation it virtually need to be explicable via some means. Even if those means are beyond the scope of human intellectual capacity. That said, I've kind of always considered that some things are literally deterministic, but effectively chaotic, solely because we lack the means to analyze sufficiently the necessary data to well, determine. Therein lies the issue...

     
    #133     Jan 14, 2010
  4. mikasa

    mikasa

    I think people are afraid of you, you seem smart

    get a new name and do this again but this time act stupid

    someone will say darn it, I'll give him a nugget to chew on :cool:
     
    #134     Jan 14, 2010
  5. Great way to get the point across :) Yeah, up to the conclusion it is perfectly reasonable to assume that chance could have caused all the happenings. An educated man would take that into consideration. The uneducated man would throw that possibility out the window, if he ever conceived of it at all. I suppose the rounded person would know while it's possible to simply be chance, it's best to take advantage of information in whatever form it's delivered.... Noted. As wise as this seems to be, I still am of the mindset one needs to be quite careful that what they see or what they think they see means anything. Of course this can be done ad nauseum. I hope to learn to strike a balance between skepticism and faithful. It would seem that is where trading opportunities become ripe for the picking.

     
    #135     Jan 14, 2010
  6. Ha ha. Thanks. Jack made me feel stupid, you made me feel smart. Ups and downs just like the markets. ;)

     
    #136     Jan 14, 2010
  7. I think progress is somewhat circuitous, beginning at simple-naive, moving to unnecessarily complex, and then hopefully settling at simple-elegant. It seems like coming full circle, but not quite.
     
    #137     Jan 14, 2010