Ah, the Obama win now makes this a tougher trade.
And a lower US dollar won't help the shorts.
Still, if US Equities tank from the fiscal cliff, this guy is going lower...maybe below $3.00.
That's one way of looking at it.
The reason why 95% fail is simple:
THEY DONT'T HAVE "IT".
"IT":
1) intuition
2) guts
3) perseverance (thru the drawdowns)
4) instinct
5) patience
Look, There's no way this game could ever be simple.
I must agree, given his later professional accomplishments. But isn't it a bit odd that he never provided any details of how he knew what he was doing ?
I mean he never demonstrated knowledge of any aspects or details of the coffee market....at all.
Interesting comment. I remember when I had backtested the Donchian strategy a few years ago, it had an incredibly consistent equity curve upwards....even with the choppy S&P 500 emini contract. I wonder if that's no longer the case.
Scalping is harrowing to say the least. I did it once, and what a rush ! That being said: In the end it wasn't worth it.
Today, this is done by HFT algos....and it works great....for them.
No emotion in software !
Sounds like everyone in the USA is collecting welfare then ?
I'm not. I'm working my ass off trying to keep up with the "faux" inflation (copper > $3/lb, Gas > $4/gallon, etc) from QE2,3.
That's exactly the right course of action. We can't continue to postpone the correction needed to reverse all of these poor economic policy decisions of the past 8 years.
No question Bush is guilty as well.
He's likely long/short the futures contract and as he mentioned, he'll offset that position with a corresponding long put and/or short call if he is long futures or the reverse if he is short the futures.
That had to be agony-to-the-max.
So Red Kite gets $20 million for every $100 million of net gains ?
And $2 million for every $100 million invested win or lose ?
Wow.