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This is exactly what our non-US-citizen counterparts are doing, because they are not taxed on global income. So they simply move to a friendlier locale and trade from there. Getting out for those of us with US citizenship is a whole other ball of wax as previously mentioned. You need to go...

P.S. There is always the option of giving up your birthright, and switching teams, assuming some attractive tax-haven will take you as a citizen. You get hit with a one-time exit tax and then you are done. Compound away. This would have been unthinkable to many Americans in decades past...

Disclaimer - As always you should consult a real professional expert on such matters. I assume you are a U.S. Citizen. Once you get to a certain size, your marginal tax rate is 35% for federal, which is extremely painful (and most certainly to be raised soon) when you are competing against...

I'm following this thread closely, if for no other reason than it is on options, which I have limited knowledge and experience with but a (perhaps dangerous) curiosity for, and I am an ex-Ohioan (now basking in 80 degree CA weather... I'll try and send some over Howard). My experience with...

I'm just curious how you guys can trust MT4 as a backtesting platform? Just data quality issues alone makes one really pause and think.

I believe you will find, that when fully equipped with modern firearms (which didn't happen on any significant scale until it was too late), the native american was a formidable, and dare I say, FREE, enemy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn In terms of someone...

You're joking right? You do realize that in the history of the world, more mass "murder" (aka defenseless people being killed) has occurred at the hands of tyrannical powers and their armies, right? The gun is the great equalizer of history! It is a "And Ye Engineering Nerds Shall Inherit The...

Model Society? Please quote me where I said THAT? You see, we are both making assumptions. I simply stated that their policy on firearms is attractive, not that everything Swiss is attractive (although, I do like you Swiss introverted super hermits you!). My assumption, based on, what...

Why wait indeed. I hear North Korean gulags are fabulously "cool" this time of year. I'm sure someone who is there would gladly swap you circumstances, and the best part of all is, you don't have to worry about your fellow workers who are probably half way to insanity at the very least, shooting...

If and when the vast majority of this once great country shares your mindset, I will happily emigrate back to the land of my forebears as it is certainly a viable alternative in such a circumstance. Since I don't believe we are there yet, doesn't it make more sense for you to go to Cuba/North...

Again, this is a clever man who has laid it all out for you in very simple, common sense ways including this statement. I'm proud to say (I believe?) he is a fellow Californian and we could certainly use about 30 million more of him.

Yes of course, just like Switzerland. That wasn't a teddy bear that 5 year old was cuddling in Gstaad, it was an H&K Assault Rifle with teddy bear camo...

Please tell that to the families of millions of victims of Joseph Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Various African, Central American, and Latin American regimes. What I find absurd is that these populations allowed themselves to be disarmed, and then subsequently slaughtered and terrorized by...

[self therapy] I'm still somewhat shocked to this day by how idiotic the majority of the people in this country truly are. Gone are the days of the moderately educated but highly paranoid and suspicious American. The American who thinks carefully (such as Tom Davis on here, who with...

I can't tell you how many times I have worked with a hypothesis derived that people say works only to find out that when tested over a long enough time period with data with no survivorship bias, that it is worthless and in fact does not work to my satisfaction. A lot of things that I thought...

Perhaps the more appropriate question is can you survive a 2 year drawdown with no other source of income, and still be around with enough capital when your strategies bounce back? The thing with trading is your capital is the only growth engine. It isn't like a high barrier to entry...

It would be helpful to hear from Curtis himself on this topic, but my guess would be that his email was directed not at mechanical trend followers, but at friends and family who are in index funds or otherwise "amateur" investors. I'm not sure if he is running any trend following programs...

It is the average return on the amount risked. If I buy $50K of a stock and make a $2,500 profit, then my return on risked capital is 5%. So average all of those profits/losses for every trade and you get your average return per trade. The shorter the time frame for the trade, the better you...

Certainly there have been systems developed to counter specific trend-following entries (the anti-Turtle short term reversion system comes to mind). What is more interesting is the topic of dynamically detecting large imbalances being created by systematic orders in real-time and adapting to...

Mark, Are you seeing significant non-random order flow behavior on say, events that would trigger an entry based on your oddball system? You are then taking the opposite side of the trade when the order flow goes back to random in appearance (aka everyone is piled in on the oddball signal)?