Recent content by Steve Ladd

These answers seem good though contradictory. Perhaps I understand as well as I need to.

Is an ETF's share price driven by supply and demand for the ETF shares themselves or by the total value of the ETF's holdings? In other words, is an ETF's minute-by-minute price action due to those buying and selling it or by what's happening to the ETF's component parts?

What does a study such as you describe say is the contribution of shorting to a trend-following system?

Trend Following In Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Backtest, PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS, January 2, 2016 and Trend Following in Focus, QR Capital Management, LLC, September 2018

Since there is no .com by that name you imply that this web site isn't for long only?

Let my stops execute and wait.

I am an intermediate-term trend follower. Some call it position trading. I don’t short-sell because studies show that shorting adds approximately zero to a trend-following system. This is because 1) it runs counter to the overall up-trend of markets, 2) you don't reap dividends, and 3) the...

If it were calculated that you were in the top 1% globally, which is likely given how the Abyssinians through Zimbabweans of the world drag the average down, would you gladly give up your savings, paltry to you but extravagant to them?

I made a mint in commodity-related stocks in 2020 too, but my stop orders executed a couple weeks ago and I have, unfortunately, hesitated to get back in.

Thank you for a straight answer. Half of me says you are right, half says we need theories to guide our science.

Would you want your savings stolen? "Do unto others . . ."

I think of the broad indices as leaders and the commodity producers (COPX etc.) as followers. Granted, the producers had been driven into the ground. But surely the producers can't lead for very long.