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The June 07(almost a year) 125 call on the SPY is trading at 9.50. You could buy 100 of those. That's a hundred thousand shares point for point over 125.

Thats my point one bad WEEK in the SP and you're out.

so you think you're gonna you 10:1 margin. What happens if you get a margin call?

The fund would have made 8.9 percent on 10 percent of asset under management. Thats more like 5.5 percent. not 13. Look you need to win risk trades to make it as a fund manager. I would just go buy a million dollors worth of 30-year t-bonds. Or in another country make nearly double...

So essentially your dream was about you wanting to invest other people's money in CDs. I think you just want to be a bank teller. Half the time the SP will go up, half the time it will go down.

How are we collabing if I have to go buy data?

what if the SP goes down 10%?

is it true?

i thought a soldier was kidnapped

Hey I'm a programmer between jobs (last friday was my last day, I'm going back to school) and I can run some tests for you. I just need the data.

college

Does anyone trade like this?

isn't monte carlo methodology about random events? I don't see how this applies to replies vs. views.

Double weight??? I don't get it.

1st When Genius Failed 2nd Ed. of a Speculator

This was a few years back. Let me see. There's the Market Wizards by J swchager(?), Logical Trader by MBF, a couple jim roger books . . . The other titles, I can't recall the authors, but they focus on tech. analysis and a few of them on psychology. The books are designed to teach guys...

You're gonna have to read about twenty books. You gotta pass all these tests. Then you're gonna go work for some underling. The underlig is gonna give some other underligs strategy to trade, maybe day and night. If you don't screw up for like a year, you might get a chance to present...

I used to work for MBF. Still very loyal to those guys . . hell he took a big chance on me. I'd be interested in hearing how you got in though. Like it was posted, Mark doesn't pick many guys. Are you interning, clerking?

This is where I'm at: If you throughly tested a strategy . . and it has no historical drawdown . . This DOES NOT mean you won't be exposed to a drawdown in the future. All it shows is that the setup worked very well in the past. It's impossible to say with CERTAINTY that any tested...

Any mechanical strategy that has potential to make a profit, an exposure to risk, has the the potential for drawdown. A drawdown of 10% over a five period isn't terrible. Sure it "can" happen. But what's the probablity?