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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    greed is built up , step by step over a long time frame ; months, years..tech bubble,tulip mania, etc... panic and fear reach their maximum in seconds,minutes that's why you see the biggest spikes to the downside and not upside HUMAN behavior dictates markets, indeed
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    the butterfly effect , BINGO ! :D Modern orthodoxy of finance (Capital Asset Pricing Model or CAPM) is based on the shaky assumption that financial phenomena can be described according to a Gaussian normal distribution, that is they claim to be able to eliminate the possibility of...
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    some evidence against the standard theory ; 1. The standard theories would estimate the odds of that final August 31, 1998 collapse at one in 20 million, an event that, if you traded daily for nearly 100,000 years, you would not expect to see even one. The odds of getting three of such...
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    Regarding the present financial orthodoxy (Efficient Market Hypotheis and its offsprings like CAPM, Efficient Frontier, Black-Scholes Model etc etc) , I would say that the science of economics is Newtonian (or even pre-Newtonian) in an Einstein world, still a loooooong way to go, dear academics...
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    Well said , Whitster ! You should write a book. Chaos theory, yes. Patience for the moment when everything comes together for that explosive or not so explosice 1-way move. For me the market is going from very random modus to very predictable modus and the other way...
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    Cutten, "traded frequently" , any idea what his average trade duration was ?
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    Cutten, Do you have a link to that study of Soros ? Alpha : http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    Quote from Brandonf: The fact is this: The markets are a lot more random than most traders want to think it is. It is also a lot less random than most academics want to think. Best post, I agree.
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    Crude Oil Rollover Date

    I have the same question
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    European Broker - NONE PATSYSTEM

    Xenia, So you are on the feed of Marex , just white labelled ?
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    Goodnight !
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    Indeed better you stay in your shielded, ivory tower as a professor, you are not cut for the though world of trading :D
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    have yet to meet someone who started out with hubris, who succeeded, maybe you ? who knows.....
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    only AFTER he get's his degree REAL LIFE begins :cool: "Hubris comes before the fall"
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    the smartest people I ever met were at the same time the most humble people , this seems to be inversely correlated maybe they realize more than anyone how much there is left to learn .............
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    The markets teached me humbleness, if you ever dive in the markets, you will learn this too , good "luck".
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    WallstGolfer31, Honestly,at your age , I was like you, a "know it all type" in my second year of the university 20 years later, I realize what an arrogant, ignorant prick I was :cool: In the beginning of my trading career, the markets looked random to me and my results...
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    What is the Highest leveraged futures or comm contract?

    Syswizard, What contracts have the highest travel distance ?
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    Buying and selling the same currency

    NoWorries, I am more than convinced, it's a FACT :cool:
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    European Broker - NONE PATSYSTEM

    Xenia, Do you trade on this platform ? fast and reliable feed ? Good daymargins ?
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