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Is this still going on ? Look, nobody in their right mind would post on ET asking for a fund or money manager. The response to such a posting ? Ignore it. Its bullflop.

Exactly my thinking: I think many many people have bought these areas thinking that they were part of a genuine turnaround rather than part of an industry driven speculative bubble. In some locations i think it is fair to say that a type of neighborhood turnaround has occured, but in other...

I think that there will be selective busts in regions of extreme speculation: other areas will just stagnate or decline slightly. One thing there will be : fewer property management and resale related business starts.

Ask this question directly to the CME ......

Yes. However I keep coming back to two points in the residential and muti-unit markets: (1) Record low numbers of affordability in boom areas like So. Ca. (2) Multi-units underwater in many places - particularly So. Ca. if short term appreciation is not included. This can not go on...

Yes you could do this .... but ....you should not want an outside entity of any type emailing you signals. Your trading signals should be generated by you or your own algorithms..... otherwise dont trade. The way this would be done in general is that there would be software analyzing an...

Etrade - one of my customers - moved some corporate functions to manhattan. Several of its executives moved to the east as well and received standard executive relocation packages - as you are aware. These days for many companies the physical location of their executives is less important and...

I have often heard this argument and my impression is that this was part of it but a lot of the reduction was classic boom-bust cycle. I started buying properties in So. Ca. during the mid to early 90's and my opinion was that the downturn was driven to a great extent by over-speculation with...

I have reduced my holdings in So. Ca. I'm not too negative on some areas in Orange and LA counties although I believe there will be a correction regardless of the area : I just dont believe it will be too severe... but I could be wrong. The penalty for being wrong is a locked in gain, which is...

Why is it that you think this will occur indefintely ? The last 25 years have been great - even with the 1991 softening but I think that a lot of things are structurally changing in silicon valley and the bay area economy in general. I am not banking on another 25 years of similar...

..which is why all of this is irrelevant to science and engineering .....

Well, yes and no. I know many extremely brilliant kids that when confronted with the realities of working in science or engineering went into law or medicine. Programming ? Its the last choice of anyone with any type of drive to figure out how things work - although there are frontiers in...

So which offices are still open and functioning ? For example you had an office in Long Beach - down the street from my house on alamitos bay . Are you still keeping any brick and mortar offices in Southern California ? How about in the Chicago area and Seattle ?

When I was in graduate School in the late 80's I routinely worked with students from other countries - most notably India and China - that would often tell me that nearly all of the content for a science bachelors degree was studied by them in high school and that the typical first year to two...

Well, yes. There is talent worldwide. My experience is that no single locale has a monopoly on talent. My point was that a lot of talented people view these contests - even ones sponsored or affiliated with the ACM etc - as marketing excercises for the societies and academia. If you know...

So, whats the value of the contest then if its simply a bunch of people flinging themselves at a wall to prove they can generate a standard solution - or a minor variation - 1 minute faster than someone else ? Quality of output is not necessarily correlated to speed of output or the...

Not really a problem .. hopefully people at Stanford and MIT are not focusing on being "top programmers" but rather, top scientists.

Prepare to be bombarded ... there are about a thousand out of work programmers on this board ..... My advice: ask a business associate or get involved with a local business association for this type of referral .....

Well yes. That was my point . You can gather statistics over various time frames and it becomes clear where you need to be concentrating your efforts. In some markets - not those you mention - the behaviour of the black box traders is so predictable that you can use it to your advantage.

Well, it has changed and is changing. one point: the black boxes are largly stupid. Once you figure this out and realize that they have little inteligence then you will do OK. Here is a key tip: watch a few markets where you know there is a large black-box component and try a few experiments...