Recent content by alphav6O3q

I think the forum is fine. However, somethings that may add a lot of value is a)adding a way to thank a poster, which would add to his reputation. Maybe something similar to bodypoints and RepPower on forums.bodybuilding.com. I think that would help users to judge the quality of a post...

Suppose you believed that a particular state was going through a rough patch, because of which its worth has been grossly undervalued. Or that the economy of a particular state is likely to boom in the coming years. How and using what instruments would you use to trade on this idea...

Hii.. I wonder if there is any known trend in which the different sectors grow in a developing economy. For example China is supposed to grow rapidly in the next decade or so.. What sectors are likely to grow fastest? I would think that not all sectors would would grow at the same pace...

I tend to go through the weekly issues of the IBD one at a time every weekend, without looking at the later issues. This helps me see whether my predictions have are correct or not. Last weekend I couldnt do any,so I tried to catch up. Here is the analysis following for the week of Dec 18 to Dec...

I believe this happens mainly because hedge funds have much more flexibility to use various instruments and strategies. Unlike the mutual funds which as a group always lag the SPY, and have to be always invested in the market.

http://www.hedgeindex.com/hedgeindex/en/default.aspx?cy=USD The hedge fund index(sort of an average of all hedge funds) does outperform SPY

I apologize. It was not my intention. I cannot really say against what you said, because I only have intuitive, and now it seems rudimentary understanding of these concepts. Hopefully I will be back with better arguments, but it was an interesting discussion nonetheless.

anyways enough of this discussion.

I guess I am back to the first question. My premise was that the above (directing funds, price discovery) should be the value that is produced by the trading/investing industry. But for the most part at present it is not doing that properly. Why dont we try to encourage longterm investing...

The reason I put Bogle's name was because his views fell in line with mine. Not the opposite. I dont agree with everything he says. I am not trying to justify his views.

http://ablazeofbrightblue.blogspot.com/2011/11/tax-wall-street-transactions-petition.html

a)trading/investing as a whole industry at present in my opinion doesnt produce any "societal value". Read previous post by "sle". "Oppurtunity to speculate" is a not a societal value. So a lot of very smart/motivated people are essentially working in an area which is not producing any societal...

Pot/cocaine/drug industry also has a value- provide delusions..But why is that not legal? The term that may be important here is "social" value. Oppurtunity to speculate may have some value to an individual, but to the society in large, there is no value. Most people will loose.