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are you saying that by having a well considered pair portfolio that you are not mitigating systemic risk? if not, what is your definition of systemic risk? as for beta, that is just one of the fundamentals used in creating a pair (for those that consider fundamentals) and i am in no way...

i don't know where you get your misinformation but you seem to appear on every pair related post spewing frothy feces about a strategy that you clearly know nothing about. maybe it's semantics, but people can make money in true market neutral strategies by having their longs go up more than...

Going with your assumption that the anthropomorphized God exists, IMO the key to the whole good/evil argument and the fact that every day, there is a heaping dose of cruelty as well innumerable rapes and murders is because we have free will. it is our choice and the choice of the folks deemed...

Redi clearing and executions are worry free and quick. i have never had problems with the platform getting sluggish and that's with at least one of almost every possible window going as well as it feeding 2 robust excel spreads AND 10 3rd party charts on the same computer. that said, if you...

the fact that blacks supported Obama OBVIOUSLY means that they were just following with what they have been doing since at least the 60s with an overwhelming Democrat vote. Al Gore got 90% of black votes and even John Kerry got almost that %. did you imagine that they voted for Bush?

to act as mitigator in this, as you seem awfully worked up, Mister Landis82 must have misunderstood that you were saying that it is only the current administration that are "scumbags" when i am sure you were saying George W was even more of a scumbag regarding this poker mess? he, perhaps...

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my Irish grandmother used to read tea leaves to divine the future. i decipher that day's ES move by reading the caffeine induced bowel movement as it sinks or floats hither and thither in the NYSE labeled ceramic pool of fortune. if i fail to release that morning, i watch the 1, 5 and 15...

if you want to call this the first move, you are a little late as On October 13, 2006, president George W. Bush signed into law the 'Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act' barring American online players from sending funds to online gaming sites check out this article, i know you fair...

for a basic idea, look at where the spread has been over the past year with a ratio that puts the pair as close to zero as possible. from that, you can have a better idea as to where your stop on the pair should be. i generally have it just outside the previous high/low of the spread. for...

sounds like you are questioning the claim that their land was stolen? check out this map when Mexico included most of Texas, Colorado, California, NM, AZ, NV, and UT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mexiko_und_Mittelamerika_1829.JPG besides, i believe our indigenous native americans were not...

clearly, he and quite a few other good minds believe that the spending is NECESSARY FOR the economy to recover. if you recall, this exorbitant spending to fix the then mutilated economy started back in October with Bush signing the $700 billion tarp so he must have believed in this type of...

this is another idea, samesame but different. try to have a certain amount of profit in mind before you get into the trade. it may be helpful to determine the ATR of your financial instrument so you have an idea as to how much it may move in a day(like if stock A moves only 40 cents in a day...

i apologize for my tunnel vision eyes that tend to focus on the last post, especially if it is something that i interpret as being debatable. should take the "moderator" title to mean that you are generally just trying to help and not just promote one or another Prop firm. i acquiesce. all...

i love the Marketrac image, if i could actually figure out a way to use it to help me, i would be stoked. on your paper pair, what do you have against TXN? i mean, why don't you short an unprofitable one like STM or a larger cap like INTC(slower to move if the market rips)? maybe a basket...

dude, what is your data based upon that makes you say the method has a high probability of failure? from your touting "value investing" as superior to stat arb, it is clear that you have not looked into the rudiments of this method because one of the primary premises of some types of stat arb...

i think you are just giving your definitions and not saying that a "legit prop" is going to necessarily be financially better for everyone? i mean, an experienced, highly profitable trader MAY be better off at an "arcade" where they get to keep all of their earnings. i say "may" because it...

good point. the higher the correlation, the less opportunity to suck money out of the spread and the more skill required (or algorithmic arbitrage programs), as with a stock and its preferred which can be like 99+% correlation and all you can hope for is pennies. however, they should be...

this is a thread on one type of mean-reversion strategy, http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=134253 basically, it is any strategy where you are playing the probability that the spread between two correlated/cointegrated financial intruments that has diverged will eventually...