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The source for the stats: http://www.marketfolly.com/2009/05/barrons-hedge-fund-rankings-2009-top.html Barron's Hedge Fund Top 100 averaged +13.16% in 2008, with a standard deviation of 21.32%. Barclayhedge fund index was -21.63% for the same period. Barron's breaks down their top 100 list...

Buying the underlying commodity is a valid alternative, but if your holding with the view of receiving a passive dividend of somekind, then owning stock in the commodity producing company achieves that goal.

I posted a long term recommendation on BHP a month ago a few posts back of mine and its doing really well so far. RTP (Rio Tinto) is probably just as good if not better, extraordinary volatility, its doubled over the last 5 months and yet it is STILL 61% below last years dizzying heights, not...

What was the ***last*** thing you had to master before becoming profitable? Reading and/or posting on www.elitetrader.com.

Basically you want to know the durability of the moat of your edges. Well, all i can say is that some edges show up for weeks, some for a few months, some for a few years, I have seen quite a few things come and go in my 4 years full time trading. Gut feeling.

a) I can handle 20 losing trades if they are equal to 2% of my account balance in total (i.e. 20 x 0.1% of fixed account balance risked at the start of each day/week/month). b) Otherwise I can handle 10 losses if they are equal to 2% of my balance (double risked per trade of above.) c)...

Yeah we were having this conversation in chat a couple of Fridays ago, where you take a few losses in a row and alot of guys go down in there leverage and make a profitable trade or two, and then as soon as the leverage goes back up again the losses start. Some days trading is tough and if your...

Interesting thread. In the same period SPY was roughly -36%. (dividends excluded) What about emerging markets for the long haul? To quote Jim Rogers “If the 19th century belonged to Britain, and the 20th century to the United States then the 21st century will surely belong to China." For...

All good and fair points, but the question remains, his stock portfolio of large caps as it stands has gone basically sideways over the last five years (although the dividend streams are there that can be counted on for the most part). If not goog, then something else has to be his next KO...

Skip this part if you just want to read the ARTICLE, below: You only have to look at Buffetts portfolio of large cap. publicly traded stock holdings over the last 5 years to see that they have not been performing terribly well and that this may be making him rethink his strategy in taking...

Lets say a successful trader decided to make an investment in a portfolio of "safe" stocks/real estate/bonds etc a year ago order to 'take it easy' - he/she is down a significant amount by now. In that period if same successful trader, trading his own stake once a day/week/month risking a...

You can easily daytrade a $300 million stake with low or zero leverage in fx markets. But there is no-one (yet) that made the Forbes list doing just that.

One mans toxic investment=another mans windfall Trillions of dollars in toxic loans/cmo's/investments made went somewhere right? Those developers who are probably sitting on a beach in the carribean right now laughing at all those investors who were trampling all over each other to get a...