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    What is your favorite Position Sizing method ?

    %% 100% risk?? Depends on the market Risking 100% on REAL Estate could work well/ not that anybody with sense would risk their home like that. Much better to risk what one could afford to lose; your Mac Book illustration ''practically have won the lotto '' proves my point.'' IT does make...
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    What Performance Metrics do you like to Track?

    Good points, TW, except i like part of MacBook extreme vieW \partly; Bernard Baruch said ''losses = laziness'' What if BBeruch is only 80% right on ''losses = laziness?? Rev King , [like most of the crooks he noted, ]was so wrong on Vietnam war; no wonder ''he never made it to the promised...
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    Monopoly: Who owns the world?

    %% He has some very good points; but completely wrong start /Pepsi, Coke are nowhere near owning the beverage market. Also interesting a WSJ chart now shows their bottled water sales bigger than thier sugar water.LOL:D:D A wrong start\wrong title like that ruins any theory. like wrong start...
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    What Performance Metrics do you like to Track?

    %% I WOULD not, even though that may feel good + could profit sometimes [2] TWO Exception$ to that + i may do it once........ on a short term trade, as part of a wise battle tested plan. [3] Another reason to increase size on a loss\ if you had not put on a normal size starting\out\ on a...
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    Peter Schiff: Somebody Has To Pay For Student Loan Forgiveness

    %% THAT; + Mr Biden has such a good track record of being overruled by SCOTUS. Maybe months after the election, SCOTUS smacks down that nonsense + the borrowers now owe much more interest.........................................................................
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    How to track the "smart money"?

    %% Exactly+ thus the note trying to catch bottoms /tops= bad risk reward. And even Paul Tudor Jones had a recent duck shooting ad in Ducks Unlimited MAGAzine[DU]; mainly being super selective when it comes to shooting ducks.:caution::caution: I would not call it smart money even though...
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    Are there Pros and Cons to trading SPX options instead of SPY?

    %% LOL just like a star wars mov ie.:D:D MeanWhile back on planet earth; SPY = liquidity leader, and as mr K noted lower price; + No decay on SPY............
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    How to track the "smart money"?

    %% Good points ''following points''; especially since money has no mind of its own, nor is it intelligent. NOT a prediction+ not insured by any federal agency, as the asset managers warn with wisdom. Bad risk reward, always trying to catch the exact turn point ; even though Paul T Jones did it...
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    Help me understand margin

    %% Good shot+ good points MarG ; but when they liquidate its all most always a fire sale, ready\ fire-shoot\Funny unless it happens close to ones own home. Herkufsa may be on to something with his simple moving average\ not that would help with a margin call/ but that'$ is a good trading-...
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    5 Things I have learned in 5 years of trading!

    %% V + V= good pattern. W pattern good also\:D:D
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    Best time ever: UVXY TZA SOXS SQQQ

    %% REALLY just a bear rally; SPY never closed much above 200dma except in MAR. Never hit 200 dma AUG\ not yet anyway:D:D QQQ =even more bearish based on those signals
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    UK electricity bills to rise by 80% Socialism in Action

    %% MY power bill goes up more in summer or winter extremes. USa is in better shape because the greenies have not scammed all into green energy, we still use coal + gas /fossil fuels. But overrtaxed \over regulated CA has had blackouts + power brownouts . The whisky ain't workin' anymore\...
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    Junk debt during a period of rising rates

    %% ''Junk'' was a word coined by bond salespeople to help sell hi priced bonds + it seemed to work well. Well ,until M Milken made a fortune in it. Junk silver,LOL is not really junk. Default % on them + foreclosed homes except for 1930s + such %'s are better than one would think. I like...
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    What's your personality? Which one makes the best traders?

    %% Books are the best bang for your bucks; Jack Schwager \William o Neil books have good charts + info. Study price data; or price data with charts. THIS is not the best illustration, for sure, but i look for patterns anywhere; Elephant Rips Handler in Half in Thailand -Fox News reports today...
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    What's your personality? Which one makes the best traders?

    %% Little kids pattern?? Solomon Cohen said when he was kid , the man never took his ticket , so he gave it to some one @ Eiffel tower + that person gave him money for it:caution::caution:[Source = book, Bulls Bears + Millionaires] I remember when i was a kid , looking @ Real Estate with a...
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    SPX 2008 vs 2022

    %% Always crashes in fall + winters?? LOL:D:D FEB + MAR + SEPT are known for downtrends. Markets also bottom + uptrend in he the quarter also/2018/SPY. Good down move in QQQ........
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    What's your personality? Which one makes the best traders?

    %% Exactly. One of his classmates asked, ''Larry [MINT] Hite, a multimillionaire??'' He was the one[mostly blind] that ran into walls:caution::caution::cool::cool:
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    Liberals- victims of violent crime at alarming rate

    %% NRA , NRA-ILA, right defenders of 2nd amendment = good crime stoppers. Some members of NRA are not conservative / but most are. Thanks; good question................................ Same with GOA, JPFO.
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    What's your personality? Which one makes the best traders?

    %% THATS another of the great things about capital markets\ cant predict or predict who will make millions or more?? Reading about a failure prone kid [by his own admission ], mostly blind+ poor sight in ''good'' eye, runs into walls, not athletic/LOL He said he was the only one that did not...
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    SEC whistleblower awards program may have revolving-door problem, study says

    %% Sounds like Rebecca Katz= right :caution::caution: Overall a good idea, even if there room for improvement.......................................................
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