Recent content by j109sb

I'll bite am a CFA student and this has been my hobby for a decade bored enough in confinement to consider your offer start with evidence this isn't a theft of my time or worse

Humility. Risked too much and earned a gambler's ruin? Assumed you were wicked smart and traded right away? Felt like you were owed profits and a ready made strategy? Trading is first an exercise in humility, then in ability. That markets punishes arrogance and greed is to me evidence that they...

From what I can tell the bot just increases it's exposure as soon as it goes through a drawdown to 'float' itself. Vulgar gambling bot add to the martingale trashheap I'd think.

There's a lot of well informed posts in this thread stating in a way that's it's a new paradigm. Perhaps we really did have a short bear market and this is a fresh run. Perhaps we will have another last leg up. Perhaps that US equities have outperformed will lead them to outperform longer still...

Can it be considered it's own asset class and a way to diversify a portfolio or just a leveraged bet on oil? Even if it is it could be a cheaper way to bet on oil by avoiding the roll or could be an arbitrage opportunity. It's up 230% over a year. "A carbon credit is a generic term for any...

Bubbles only pop when there's no more liquidity left to keep it going, like a ponzi scheme. I think equity markets are operating on this dynamic. For now CBs haven't done any significant tapering, retail 'investors' are finally buying too and everyone's either ecstatic the market keeps going or...

That's confirmation bias you're describing. Funny how it helps a lot when trying to understand the 'advice' these fund managers seem to dispense generously. Last I checked Dalio ran a mutual fund with better marketing and risk management, so if that's what you need help doing his advice is...

in the 1987 trader documentary ptj didn't come off as the smartest guy, going through a 5%+ drawndown in a day, trading off a crude correlation to the 1920s bull market, wine bottles in the corners of his office maybe he's not the all-star he's regarded by many as maybe he really is great trader...