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    Back Testing Survivor Bias

    Doesn't seem like a very good solution - buyouts, mergers, or failure to comply with various exchange rules (e.g., minimum liquidity) result in a lot of delistings while the stock trades over $10 or $20. And then, of course, such a rule doesn't account for the cases where a stock goes from $20...
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    500k with 50% return

    All kidding aside, though, I do have a serious question about this post. Suppose somebody was able to make 50% annual returns consistently, year after year after year (ignoring the fact that even the greatest investors and traders in history didn't) - and supposing (even more unlikely) that...
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    500k with 50% return

    Sure-fire method, although it's for a consistent 100% return, not 50%. I hope that's okay: First, change all your money into five-dollar bills. (This only works with five-dollar bills AFAIK.) Then, eat your money. Wait. When you pass the five-dollar bills, you will find that they all turned...
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    Is QQQQ Shortable?

    This is simply a small-caps vs. large-caps effect. QQQQ does not track ^IXIC, so divergence is to be expected; ^IXIC is a cap-weighted composite of all the NASDAQ stocks, while QQQQ tracks the NASDAQ 100 Index, which is a cap-weighted composite of 100 of the largest non-financial NASDAQ...
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    data on Japanese stocks

    Hi, onepac. Delurking to field this, since I was recently looking for the same thing. MSN Money has free historical end-of-day quotes for Tokyo stocks; for example, here's the last year's daily data for Sony (Tokyo:6758)...
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