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Actually, it looks like Cramerwatch.org hasn't been updated in about 2 months. Never the less, Cramer's well behind the SP500 and slightly behind the coin flipping monkey for the 18 months of data.

If you are rigorous about tracking Cramer you'll find that he outright sucks. See cramerwatch.org Basically, it's Cramer's picks vs a Monkey which flips a coin and either agrees or disagrees with Cramer. Hold time is 30 days. The monkey has a better ROI though it's pretty close. It's...

I agree that you buy fear and sell greed, but the homebuilders scream apathy right now. No one's shorting them because the've already fallen alot and there's no point in being long because the industry won't recover for another 5 years. If you want to know what homebuilders will do for...

I agree with CaptainObvious. If it worked (profitfactor > 1.7) or sort of worked (profitfactor > 1.4), they wouldn't sell it to anyone or say anything about it. More likely it's a breakeven system which won't actually take any money out of the market, but may be good enough to extract...

checkout cramerwatch.org He tracks Cramer's picks and compares them to Leonard the Wonder Monkey who flips a coin and either agrees or disagrees with Cramer's pick. I don't really agree with his W/L methodology for comparison. If one wins by 0.01% one day and loses by 15% the next day...

It's pretty easy: find the industry where they'll let you flip and keep all of the upside and only $3k-$10k of downside and you'll find 0% cancellation rates go to near 100% cancellation rates in a period of months. Also look for industries where they'll let you control an $300k asset for a...

Exactly, the worst thing about hearing these clowns talk about how smart they were for living well beyond their means was that if it went up they'd tell you how smart they were, and if it went down they'd complain about how they were tricked. No accountability at all. Now it's bad taste to...

He admitted in his first book that most of the money they made was by 1) finding a stock some analyst was thinking about upgrading 2) buy a big position 3) tell all the other analysts covering that industry that the first analyst was about to upgrade it and they'd better beat him to...

The extra electricity won't come from oil. It's not an especially good way to generate electricity. In fact, the whole beauty of oil is that it's relatively light weight for the energy it generates which makes it ideal for transportation (and too costly for power generation.) The...

You've got to lose 10-15% to call it black monday. That looks like 450 points from where we are now which is around 4%. That's a beatdown, but it's no black monday.

you can cover the call but for all intents and purposes you just sold the stock at 22.5 (unless it opens below that tomorrow) That's the downside of covered calls - if the stock runs you get only a small part of the upside and if it tanks you get all of the downside.

I'm in the same boat (4 yr old machine) but the damn thing is about 20-30% short of having enough power to play HD-DVD rips in realtime. DELL/INTC will be gettting more of my money in the short term. I do agree that businesses have no need to upgrade and Intel's past quarter is probably a...

When you score a touchdown act like you've been there before or you end up looking like a fool

I can't get 1-minute data from this morning or yesterday, though my charts are updating in real time. Anyone else having this problem?

You sure trumped him in terms of a post lacking intelligence. $10 billion is too small to have much effect in the overall market to answer OP's question. Surdo is having a crappy day/life to answer OP's next question. :)

We don't need market data, just order entry. Requirements: 1) Well designed spec that fully defines the protocol (We don't want a situation where we have to confer with someone all the time because "that bit of functionality isn't in the spec, but you have to do x, y and z and it will...

It's only one system. The sad fact is unless your Laptop has a 3 or 4 year warranty it's probably worth $700-$900. You're certainly not helped by the fact that Dell puked up nearly every laptop they had before May 1st trying to make their numbers last quarter. They were also getting rid of...

You got me. I misread the question. Still if I had a good strategy and I couldn't program it myself, I'd be very wary of someone who was offering to automate it for me. The basic theme is the same though: no one shares a good strategy. If you really want it automated your better...

There's a problem with selling strategies: Generally, nobody sells a working one (or atleast one that they believe will continue to work). So if you're buying strategies you're mostly just going to get junk and if you're selling strategies (even working ones) your not going to get what...

Wow! A whole 5%?