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The only way I can trade is 100% systematically. When I've tried discretionary trading the emotional rollercoaster was just too unbearable. With a system I can console myself with the long term statistics.

One of the Schindler Fund's investors is also a Quadriga investor and he has been very happy with them. Quadriga has been in the press lately because they have registered a hedge fund to sell to retail investors in the US. (Most hedge funds are unregistered and, thus, limited to 100...

This link, the homepage for this company, has spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. That's a bad sign on any company's homepage and doubly so for a media company.

You're at an advantage, dottom. The bigger the institution, the more the hours that get sucked up by meetings.

Sorry to see you go. I enjoyed your contributions. Another tack you might try instead of leaving is to use the "ignore" button. If you don't care to ever read another post by someone, just click on their username in a post and click "add user to your ignore list". [Btw, Baron, "add user...

Is that the one... "You have a mixture of red and white socks in a bag. What is the minimum number of socks you would have to pull out to be sure of getting a matching pair?" [This looks like a "chit chat" forum thread.]

Ah, neat! Yeah, works for me too.

I'm impressed by the 1/2 symbol in the middle of your post, Troy. How did you do it? Is it a character on your keyboard?

You mean that goes away after awhile? If I could just move some euphoria from the good days to counteract the nausea from the bad days...

It looks like you do what I do -- read and post on ET. ;) (How come there's no winking smilie, Baron?)

I had the feeling I was getting better fills in the electronic markets. Now I know why!

You might trade the Dax or Eurostoxx instead -- the three are all pretty highly correlated.

What was the comment, Easyrider?

"Maximum Adverse Excursion" by John Sweeney. A unique analysis of how to manage and exit a trade once you are in it. "Money Management Strategies for Futures Traders" by Nauzer Balsara. Risk management is just as important as entries and exits. (A lesson Niederhoffer could have learned...

Two answers... First the pompous one that contains a grain of truth... If you don't love trading so much that you couldn't imagine retiring from it, you probably aren't going to be very successful as a trader. I've never heard a profitable trader talk about retiring. Second, the serious...

Go to www.irs.gov and download Form 6781 Gains and Losses from Section 1256 Contracts and Straddles and its instructions. Futures are Section 1256 Contracts Marked to Market and go in Part 1. Part 1 is very simple and in 9 short lines helps you calculate the 60/40 split and tells you to...

I've got just the book for you, P2. "Basic Concepts of Accounting and Taxation of Property/Casualty Insurance Companies" by Sean Mooney, Larry Cohen, and Addison Shuster. Published by the Insurance Information Institute in NY City. ISBN 0-932387-44-6. It is just 93 pages long and has a...

Good post, TSaimoto. Utility is such an important, little-used concept. I dream of a world where people discuss utility theory with as much familiarity as fibonacci numbers.

How'd you do? What'd you trade?

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