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I guess the reason is that trend following got harder to trade after the 1970s. This is why even the Father of the Turtles faltered even though some of his Turtles continued to do well. You would have done well if you were one of his Turtles.

Richard Dennis made lots of money with trend following in the 1970s. He did not do well later when trend following seem to lost its effectiveness later on. Why did trend following fail to work as well in the past few decades?

Yellen said case for rate hike is stronger now. Why didn't the stock market crash?

Most CTAs that I read about use trend-following strategies. Few use mean-reversion. Why the preference for trend-following, in particular to commodities?

I have been thinking about this topic for some time. Here is my personal opinion; The 2 essential criteria that better be met before taking the plunge as a full-time investor is; - Do you have enough money? If capital is not large enough, even good returns is not enough to cover the full-time...

Thank you for the reply. May I ask what would you consider a reasonable period of time? 2 years, 3 years, 5 years or even longer?

What are the signs to look out for to know one is ready? Conversely and perhaps more importanly, what are the signs to look out for to know one NOT is ready? I would like to hear from those who have been there, done that and most probably wiser.

I would like to subscribe to an API which provides me the raw financial data to create a global stock screen customized to my liking. I don't intend to sell it. It is for my own use because I am not able to find a commercial stock screener today flexible enough for my needs. What is the most...

Using it as signal to buy.

Which is a more significant event in technical analysis? Breaking of sloping trendline or horizontal support/resistance line?

IB is good. Problem is they show the stocks list spread over several pages. If only one could show everything in one page. That would be wonderful...

Pretty tedious to capture 30 stocks one by one. But it is better than nothing. Thanks.

I would like to have a list of the stock symbols of companies listed on Germany's Xetra exchange that can be used on Google Finance or Yahoo Finance. Where can one download this list, if it exists?

Does this happen every Saturday?

Not sure if this is my own problem. Anyone face the same problem?

May I ask which are you using now that you like better?

Interactive Brokers offers 2 options for secure login - a credit-card sized token and a mobile app called IB key. If you have experience with them, what is your preference? Which do you think is better? Wondering which to use myself.

Does IBKR have a trading desk that engages in proprietary trading? This makes me nervous. I guess if financial crisis hits, one solution would be to simply buy money-market ETF or short-term bond ETF which are almost as good as cash. Seems like securities are easier to recover and lower risk...

One thing good about Interactive Brokers is that it is extra insurance on top of SIPC coverage of 500k. However, this extra insurance is only up to an extra 150m (See link at bottom). Given that IBKR is such a large broker, can the extra 150m be enough to cover all its clients? A few hedge funds...