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    How much risk capital should one use in a single trade?

    I think this is closely relevant: Calculating minimum capital http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=267941
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    When will the China bubble pop?

    When will the China bubble pop? 2015~2020
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    Questions about credit spreads!!! Help me!

    Q http://www.cmegroup.com/education/files/Opalesque_MANAGED_FUTURES_Roundtable_Chicago.pdf We know that of all the things that one can measure in our industry, volatility is one that is highly predictable. Everybody can tell us with some level of confidence what the range of the S&P or of...
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    How can we improve our trading skill ?

    one possibility is perhaps to follow his approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_and_enumerative_statistical_studies
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    When price makes unexpected move

    I think traders usually should not live anywhere above 2nd floor.
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    How much risk capital should one use in a single trade?

    When holding overnight positions trading futures/options on say weekly basis, not only the timing of knowing a wrong trade happening would be unforeseeable/ unpredictable , but also the maximum risk could be uncontrollable until it's too late if not adequately hedged.
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    When will the China bubble pop?

    http://www.afr.com/p/national/northern_china_city_of_ghosts_b6b9ymGVdV7qu5jeK2qmDI Northern China’s city of ghosts Q Only five of the 43 projects in the first phase of development have been completed, but over the next 18 months to two years, property group DTZ estimates 1.57 million...
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    When will the China bubble pop?

    Q Inside China’s Shadow Banking The Next Subprime Crisis? An Insider’s View of China’s Microcredit Industry and Some Stunning Predictions for the Future Is shadow banking in China likely to become the source of the next global financial crisis or simply a little understood area of...
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    Got Risk?

    Issue 7.12 | Dec 1999 " In the early '80s, Greenbaum and his protégé, Struve, agreed that dynamic hedging techniques were needed to manage portfolios against ordinary market moves as well as the possibility of shocks. Rather than risking their money on static assumptions, they used those...
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    bull call spread - if markets closed, how do I know if I need to exercise

    http://www.optionseducation.org/strategies_advanced_concepts/strategies/bull_call_spread.html "Assignment Risk Yes. Early assignment, while possible at any time, generally occurs only when the stock goes ex-dividend. Be warned, however, that using the long call to cover the short call...
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    Schonfeld Group

    Seems very interesting model: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121219005165/en/Schonfeld-Group-Strengthens-Commitment-Funding-Leading-Portfolio " December 19, 2012 Schonfeld Group Strengthens Commitment to Funding Leading Portfolio Management Teams * Increases Focus with...
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    Brain science - 6 reasons science will not make you a better investor

    My guess is many New ideas/ things would be made possible in the financial markets industry! " The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street [Paperback] Thomas A. Bass (Author) ... Excerpted in The New Yorker and...
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    System Achievement Score

    Scorecard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_scorecard
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    Need to be a great stock trader before you trade options ?

    perhaps a possibility would be having a Good options strategy tradig volatility, at the Right timing, before Important stock news.
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    Brain science - 6 reasons science will not make you a better investor

    Very well said! And ... Your individual behaviour as stated above has been already predicted analytically! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_game "In game theory, a Bayesian game is one in which information about characteristics of...
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    Brain science - 6 reasons science will not make you a better investor

    Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die [Kindle Edition] Eric Siegel (Author), Thomas H. Davenport (Foreword) " You have been predicted — by companies, governments, law-enforcement, hospitals and universities. Their computers say, "I knew you were...
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    Brain science - 6 reasons science will not make you a better investor

    Brain science - 6 reasons science will not make you a better investor http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-streets-gambler-brain-lacks-moral-conscience-2013-05-15 " 1. Wall Street uses brain science to gain even more control of investors 2. Brain scientists keep investors...
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    Wormhole

    alternatively, might be better going back to the past investing long term in something very profitable (as you now know today) with your long existing investment accounts. then you'll be very rich today!
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    Wormhole

    http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/ideachev.html " Worm Hole transportation Just when you thought it was confusing enough, those physicist had to come up with wormholes. Here’s the premise behind a "wormhole." [graphic] Although Special Relativity forbids objects to move...
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    Wormhole

    Wormhole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole https://www.google.com/search?q=Wormhole&client=firefox-a&hs=PF9&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=xo2hUaGuOcKIiQew0oCICw&ved=0CDgQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=472 "Faster-than-light travel Further information...
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