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I am aware of Buffett's recent move away from his long time mantra of value investing. I am just curious how he managed to get so good with value investing many years ago, given what I have highlighted. But maybe he didn't, and he might have been pulling the same trick just like these days. It's...

Although a lot of people seem to believe that value investing is superior than TA, I can't help but think that value investing also shares the same weakness as TA. Namely, both assume that past performance is indicative of future performance. An example for TA will be: if closing price...

Someone has already mentioned inflation and imperfect competition. They are both correct. I'll just add this: No one will take entrepreneurial risk for free, so there will always be equity risk premium, which currently is smaller due to the dried up of credit supply. By the way, even under...

Hi drillmega, Thank you for pointing out that socialism is not "giving money to everybody". In fact, socialism and capitalism can coexist side by side in real harmony. That is because both 'isms' operate on separate turfs. Socialism guarantee a limited fundamental material wealth (FMW) to the...

Good thread. Just want to add that a lot of people confuse communism with socialism. Communism doesn't allow or discourage the ownership of asset. So it's destined to fail due to the fact that misallocation of resources is inevitable. On the other hand, socialism allows or promote the ownership...

While I do not know where the market will be heading in the future, the content that was mentioned in the brief extract is a typical fallacy. Regardless of whether the market is a bull or bear, for every sell order to go through, there is always a buy order on the other side. The real cause of...

I also agree with some people here who mentioned that capitalism has evolved into corporatism. There is another paradigm to corporatism other than using state power for corporate benefits. It is the unfair growth structure called exponential growth. Big companies do not need to be competitive...

I have to say that this thread is one of the best among many others that I have seen in ages. Everyone should see this and wake up to reality. Far too long people are resting on two popular beliefs: a capitalist utopia or a socialist utopia. Truth is neither can exist. They are structurally...

Do you trade the futures or the options on futures?

If you trade 100 contracts with premium of $1, then you get $10,000. 1,000 contracts then you'll get $100,000. While the ability in managing the spread is part of the equation, it is the possibility of being able to put on such volume that let you make it as a full time trader. But you can...

I am referring to traders who trade vertical spreads here. So if you are one of these successful spread traders, how many contracts do you put on initially (not including adjustments)? Are you having problems getting good fills, or not getting enough fills at all? Most appreciated if someone who...

MTE: I did, they just haven't replied yet. No harm looking for comment here. spindr0: $14.95 is awful. Any good suggestion for brokers? Zecco? Tradeking? Mark: That's what I thought. And I think your book got really favorable reviews. I think I'm checking it out. Do you know any...

Activity Analysis Why isn't the Buy from 09/18 listed in the profit analysis? How did I get profit?