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Of course you have to look for positive expectancy trades. I believe that for a retail trader I believe sharpe ratios are not the right way to measure risk. It will lead to suboptimal portfolio allocations to manage the noise unless you have to fund a fixed liability (like paying your rent...

thats what I would have had my money on. there can’t be that many good retail quant strategies

Trump lambasted Hillary as the party of well street and he was the party of the working man. That certainly has not been true.

they are in the caravans that everyday come across our wall-less border

don’t discriminate. Many of trumps cabinet came from Wall Street. Same with bush 2.

unlike someone from government Sachs.

one of the shills in this thread should be able to answer this

Its easy to mobilize people if there is an enemy. That's why Oceana had Emmanual Goldstein.

Are you getting senile?

foxnews told me that she’ll become the head of the democrats if Biden wins. And she will kick out all the republicans and bring in transgender muslim illegals from Mexico to replace them in congress.

But, but, but this time.... AOC!

I kind of disagree with this. I think trading for a retail trader is about maximizing dollar profit. Your risk and your base capital are constraints. There’s no honor in earning 2percent a year with a sharp of 10. .

Increasing the senate by population makes no sense. Each state gets its #of Congress + #of senators as its count in the electoral college. Dc gets three (like it was a tiny state). Republicans win more states, democrats win bigger states. the point is to balance population density against...

No. Robots are expensive. Child labor is cheap. If robots become cheap, then child labor will be cheaper. it’s a race to the bottom for wages.

An option that is at the money-ish has the highest sensitivity to stock movements (ie Gamma). Theta is the cost of having Gamma. Time value is the sum of the expected theta which will be highest for an at the money option.

better than being a cow

For someone that might be useful. For me, its being able to access all the information i need to determine if a trade makes sense with a few key strokes. (not knowing what the information will be apriori). Plus excel API addins make doing time series research and risk management really easy. And...

bloomberg terminal. its like 25k/year.

I pay for a Bloomberg and live equity and live US options and live futures for vix. it’s expensive but typically pays for itself several times a year in the form of trades that would have been difficult to research on my own.

Boohoo.... my life is hard. I make more money in half an hour than my bitchy sister does in a year. What should I do?