Recent content by capitalMan

so is your "skepticism" and denial of trend following or attributing richard dennis 's success to luck (over 40 years?) a symtom of your inability to make money? taking out your frustration on trading techniques and aligning with yourself with loser who blow out won't help your trading,you...

I met with Roy's COO.AnD specifically ask how the systems are related between Roy and vic.. There is no relationship, so stop talking about stuff u don't know. Have u ever met Roy? U are just a outsider " oh really" Is that the best attack against trend following you can come up with? Go run...

In regards to your "simple" example, it's the magnitude not frequency that matters, dumbass, how many times do we need to bang this into your head...Instead of these simple example, go do a search on mean-variance ratio or hurst exponent...

may be it takes 30 blewup to make it statiscally significant? I wonder how many times Victor have to blew up b4 MarketSurfer will finally stop to kiss his ass..I bet it will take much more than 30, there seem to be something beyond camradarie and friendship going on here...pretty kinky stuff...

I guess you didn't know that Roy 's fund use breakouts and mometum strategies (a more acadamic phase for trend following), so I guess you are saying Roy has NO edge and he and his success is just another example of survivor bias. Talking about survivor bias, in 20 years time, when no one...

He doesn't deserve any respect at all, a top trader don't blow up..period...all these mention about trader who blew up indicates to me that you guys believe trading is about high adrelalin and having the balls to take big risks and making big money...as if blowing up is a characteristc of a top...

I haven't post for years but I feel this overwhelming urge to respond to MarketSurfer 's ludicrous assetsion that victor is a top trader, you are almost redefining the term, I just can't believe you said that, how bias can u get? you acknowledge he blew up two times and yet you still consider...

I invest 90% of my net worth in my own hedge fund and have done so for the past 4 years but I am beating 99% of the hedge funds in 2008 with a 65% return, I hope this doesn't sound hubris, but it's just hard to find managers that are better...

this guy almost blew himself out( he almost went bankrupt but was bail out by his friends) in the 97-98 financial crisis trading index options. Living his life to his fullest, I am expecting a spectacular blow out somewhere down the road. As a trader, his money managment skills is on par with a...

you should be very specific in your goals. I have a two pages "things to do" that I tick off when as the year progresses. break it down into sections like IT infrastructure strategy improvement backoffice new markets to explore It makes your life much more disciplined.

according to my initial calculations, we are up about 8% for May. We got hurt like everybody else in some markets, but these days are when diversification really helps.

I think a lot of people is misunderstanding drawdown here. drawdown or Max drawdown goes out with the square root of time and it's a function of your expectancy, correlation in your trades, freqwuency of your trading and the distribution of your P&L. A very complicated and interesting...

No prediction needed. The key is what happens monday in Asia. In every crash, positive feedback and extreme correlation is seen. If Hong Kong and Nikkei or Kospi crashes big, then we definitely is going see something happening and all these markets don't look too good to me. I guess the...

On the topic of recent performance of trend-following fund.. if the performance is sustained, It's probably still going to around in 10 yrs..

Thanks for the prompt reply. I would like to get more info, do u have a contact at Nordnet? Can this broker support platforms like GLtrade or ORCExnet May be you can PM me his info and also how much comission are u paying? I head FIP charges something like EUR0.4 for executions...