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    Want opinion on collective2

    Perhaps not entirely true: Q Who we are Collective2 "went live" in 2003. Over the past seven years, we have analyzed over 14,000 trading strategies. We are based just outside New York City, and are subject to U.S. laws and regulations. We are registered with the Commodity Futures Trading...
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    what is wrong with my system?

    when looking at some cta sites, they usually display the up and down graph of individual cta's aum in order for potential investors to compare the progress of aum against the up and down of performance. i guess c2 should have provided this statistics as well.
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    what is wrong with my system?

    do you know how many total subscribers for all the systems for the whole site?
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    Want opinion on collective2

    "Another issue is that they conceal any subscriber statistics." perhaps, until c2 provide aum (i.e. total number of subscribers with c2 for an individual system) statistics like all other cta sites do, it'd be hard for potential investors to evaluate/compare the systems' performance and...
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    Success in trading stocks a prerequisite for success in trading options?

    A fact, and a myth as well! "Prerequisite" probably is a proper word indeed! imo, trading ULs well does not guarantee a success at all in trading options. Trading options requires to acquire/develop further/incremental edge and a quite different mindset beyond simply trading ULs...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    More sites and done: zacks.com and stockworm.com . Q http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/category.jhtml?id=178 Stock Screening Star stock pickers have always sworn by stock screening. Citing a quantitative modeling approach, they've sifted through a wide universe of stocks to find hidden...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    Many thanks for the great site. Much appreciated. I just found that had been discussed here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=63222 Do you use the site for large cap stocks? Q dwpeters : FYI, an interesting article on the shift from value to growth with some...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    Thank you guys for asking the questions (while i am still awaiting feedback from others regarding my previous questions in this thread)!
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    Even worse, for many of the variables/factors, a same factor can be used to serve two conflicting objectives. An example is book-to-value ratio provides totally opposite weighting to value-investors (preferring high ratio for a cheap bargain) against growth-investors (preferring low ratio for...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies Q Renaissance Technologies is a hedge fund management company of over 300 employees and more than $15 billion in assets under management in three funds[2]. ... Renaissance employs many specialists with non-financial backgrounds...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    i am merely a completely fresh newbie, expecting to learn something never heard before myself. its like a high-tech approach of using statistical techniques (including a lot of high-power applied maths under this umbrella) to do quantification of sophisticated fundamental analysis plus...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    Where is the most popular forum of quantitative investing for stock picking? Q http://www.wilmott.com/index.cfm?NoCookies=Yes&forumid=1 Trading Forum Quantitative trading, algorithmic trading, black-box (as long as we can take a peek inside) trading, arbitrage, buy low sell high...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    Thanks for the input. I think quant Trading is more (,if not all,) about timing of individual stock. Simply buy and sell within a year maximum. Making decisions seldom base on balance sheet data, disregarding any stock value or returns. I believe quant Investing is more about selecting...
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    Prop firm asking for source code and strategy??

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion "An opinion is a subjective statement or thought about an issue or topic, and is the result of emotion or interpretation of facts. An opinion may be supported by an argument, although people may draw opposing opinions from the same set of facts. Opinions...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    My second question is: Where can I get any commonly available data(bases) for analysis of quantitative equity investing? Q http://www.shkhedge.com/file/media_center/m47e1bbf8ee2db.pdf Strong dependence on data Clearly a high quality financial database is necessary to run a credible...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    Unsure whether the following represents a fair picture/outline of quantitative investing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_investing Q Quantitative investing represents an investing technique typically employed by the most sophisticated, technically advanced hedge funds. These...
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    About Quantitative Equity Investing

    Since this forum is for "all aspects of ... short-term investing", I would like to start a thread about Quantitative Equity Investing. My first question is (as far as you know,) what is the usual holding time (of a stock) for quantitative investing, practically? Here is another thread...
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    Prop firm asking for source code and strategy??

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honesty Q Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and denotes positive, virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness along with the absence of lying, cheating, or theft[1]. ... Others would not define preferable behaviors as...
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    Prop firm asking for source code and strategy??

    http://www1.worldbank.org/finance/html/self-regulation-in-developing-.html Q Regulation of Market Transactions Self-regulation of market transactions ensures that they are executed and completed by each member according to pre-agreed rules and modalities. To this purpose, the SRO...
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    Prop firm asking for source code and strategy??

    Please don't avoid the issue by saying whatever you like to say, if you don't try to intentionally misunderstand the underlying isuue as you want to. I now plan to open a prop firm, a llc. I recruit traders as the firm's employees to trade for my firm. All of them are required to sign a...
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