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Come on capadre, you know as well as I do that the border states are the problems. Yes, all border states. But FL has a mix that most other border states don't have which is lots of money, lots of criminals, lots of con men and government that is completely indifferent. That along with being...

There are no p&l requirements once you go live. Trade as little or as much as you want. Here is what I think the draw is for most guys. Obviously it does not take much to fund a futures account. Hell I think Amp let's you open an account for $500 or $1000. I think for many guys they are...

I lived in FL for three years. Southeast FL is hideous. People want to own there for the homestead and bankruptcy protection. Also rich north easters like to live there 6 months and one day to claim state residency over say NY. Saves them about 12% in state income taxes. But most people I...

Let me see if I get this right. They should be shut down because the traders fail at trading? Should we shut down our school system for producing idiots? Should we shut down IB for charging commissions even though most their retail clients lose? Hell, we should shut down ET. God knows 99%...

This is NOT those threads. This is a different thread. I simply pointed to an ETF that "uses" a trend following approach. It uses the 200 day avg to identify the trend of the market. And stays long until that trend is violated. Once violated it moves money into fixed income. And looky...

Dude, you do understand that was like 3 years ago right? LOL. He is no longer AT a prop firm. He has an IB account. And no, I'm not going to re-read this entire thread to see what he paid in commish 3 years ago. He is no longer in the industry.

Now before this thread goes way off topic let's start over. Surf, you start a thread saying trend following is dead. You follow that up with "evidence" by pointing to one single fund who is struggling. In other words, you're cherry picking. I then respond with my own "cherry" that refutes...

Who said it had to be diversified. It uses a trend indicator to identify a trend then stay in that product until the indicator says its no longer in a trend. That is a called a trend fund. LOL. You guys are funny.

Also Surf, can we safely say hedge funds in general are dead? Unless you think getting killed every year by the little old S&P 500 is a good thing. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/why-hedge-funds-glory-days-may-be-gone-for-good

Surf, did you know that is a trend following ETF (TRND)? Looks good to me.

Surf, you know as well as I do that trend following is HIGHLY cyclical. In fact, it tends to only do well with risk assets do poorly. Well, we all know how seldom that happens. However having said that, there is enough data out there to suggest that being long risk assets while being long a...

Well to be fair, you alluded to trend following been dead "now" and citing "this" year's performance of FX Concepts as your proof. So I'm citing "this" year's performance of Superfund. Superfund has always been very volatile and their fees are the highest in the industry. But their...

Surf, a better proxy for trend following would probably be the notorious Superfund which is up 13.5% YTD net of outrageously high fees. Care to explain that?

Here's the problem with Miami. Everyone is buying but is anyone living there. Miami is like our Dubai. Property gets bought up by investors but the units are vacant. I don't think it's sustainable. Almost everyone I knew who moved there left there. Prices are upticking because they got so...

To be fair, the 2016 primary has started and Rand is giving speeches in Iowa already. That has to be pissing Christie off. So you are going to see him Christie take shots at Rand and Cruz daily now. Having said that, I do agree with you that Christie is all over the map politically and he...

Zero. Bright doesn't do business with banks. PTJP was a hedge fund under Worldco's umbrella. They were separate from the day trading business. They paid millions in fees to get access to pre-ipo pricing in hot internet stocks. It was common practice back in the hey day. And they made a...

I gotta back Max up on this. Yes, they are attacked by all the hypocrites on the left who supposedly defend women and want to empower them. I think we all know the left doesn't really give two shits about women, children, blacks, hispanics, jews, etc. That's all a ruse. But just because the...

WTF are you talking about? The guy trades through IB. Are you on the wrong thread?

Max, I never understood how Bachmann ever became so popular on the right. Everytime I hear her scream we need to take this country back meanwhile she supports the war on drugs, NSA, patriot act, etc. Does she mean take the country back from us? LOL.