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grinder? The t-note rallied like almost 20 full ticks.

Yeah, a 20-30% drawdown is typical with any systematic trend following program. But your point about hfs and high water mark is correct. The thing about hfs is that people expect low vol from them. But I think CPO/CTA and futures funds do have large drawdowns of even 50-60%. And if you...

Yep. Problem with overcapacity. Everyone jumping in front of each other. Too much money and not enough opportunities. Did you read in the Bloomberg link above about how one of John Henry's futures fund is down 26% and the fund has $1.6B. That's like over $400M poof! oh well.. just like...

Stop BLAMING hedge funds. Convenient excuse. ===================== Hedge Funds: Wall Street's New Bogeyman Saturday May 21, 9:59 am ET By Michael J. Martinez, AP Business Writer Hedge Funds, Failing to Produce Solid Returns This Year, Blamed for Array of Wall Street Ills NEW YORK...

Perhaps, the bond market is discounting that once the real estate bubble cools off/burst, then there's nothing else going for the U.S. economy! Thus rates are going back down... Monetary policy is not going to work this time around when you already used up all your juice with low rates...

Mayeb deflation is going on... And we just hit the peak of inflation with home prices,etc. Now, we'll go into the "Japanese" phase and have deflation for the next 10years!! Whoa! They kept lowering their rates to almost 0% and no effect on their economy.

Hedge fund managers settle for $2.4M Three managers accused of illegal short-selling agree to payment; don't admit or deny wrongdoing. May 19, 2005: 12:14 PM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three hedge fund managers have agreed to pay a total of $2.4 million to settle charges of illegal...

Yeah, "goods" are cheap! But nothing else. Education, health care, HOUSING, gasoline, and all of the other ESSENTIALS that's not really count in the core CPI are at all time high! I think a person needs more that some widget or toy from Wal-Mart to be dirt cheap in order to live!

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050518/wall_street.html?.v=19 How can inflation be benign when education, housing, gas(even after the recent downturn in oils) are at all time high? I know they are measuring "core" CPI and energy and housing aren't consider core? Who thought of that smart...

I sure hope it's that way. It's coming back up. Not very pleasant...

so, if one uses https://mail.yahoo.com does this mean your company can't read your email or is it still possible? just wondering...

wtf?!!! This thing doesn't come down...

DT, Yeah, I did a free 5 day trial with TI. I thought it was pretty good. But I was still thinking of how to automate it. You still have to look at a lot of alerts and pick the best ones.. But it's better than nothing. Much better. What kind of stuff do you look at?

DiamondTrim, And the amazing thing is you guys are doing it for a living! I remember how hard it to trade for a living. I'm very impressed with those who can actually do it day in , day out. Despite my institutional background, I tried it and honestly, I didn't do as well as I wanted to...

livingston, I don't know why you feel the NEED to put down other people at the start. That's the first post you did on this thread. And I responded that if you think 2K/day is worth sh*t then just multiply it up for 250 trading days. Yes, I've traded for 5years. And being in institutional...

It's a 100pts drop, which is pretty regular event nowadays. And on some days even 200pts. So, that's vol for you. But I wouldn't say free fall...

how did you lose 2K in a few minutes? You were long lots of ES and it tank on that news? just wondering... :confused:

White House and Capitol Are Evacuated; Reason Unknown * E-Mail This * Printer-Friendly * Reprints By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: May 11, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Capitol and White House were evacuated Wednesday. War planes were seen flying overhead and...

rtstrading, This is kinda cool. I've been looking for something like this. You know how IB sends the daily statement as .htm files in the email. But when I went to http://www.maxtrader.net/ I did NOT find anything about importing old IB statements. It seems like it only records your...