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Thanks for enlightening me. I was not sure what infrastructure has been planned. I'm pretty sure it won't help the people at the bottom who voted for him very much.

Maybe I'm ignorant: someone please enlighten me. Say I'm an ex-miner with no job for the last 5 years, living in Bumfuck, WV, and upside down in my little house. Now, Trump decides to build roads (for example). 1. Could this somehow provide me with a job? I have no experience building...

I read a nice article about matching Buffet's returns here: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1107001-making-buffetts-alpha-your-own

Sorry it's not that legible, can't figure out how to do it. But, volatility matters. As for options, you have correctly figured out that the market is efficient, theta is not an edge, and simple swing trading methods that seem like they "should" work do not always work that well. You'll need...

Why you should care about Sharpe (or whatever similar measure you want to use): Volatility robs you of returns. I hope the below will print out legibly. Consider 2 methods, both with a mean return of 10%. The method that is more volatile has a lower cumulative return. You may not think $152...

I do find it useful to study stuff that doesn't work. After you get the hang of what kind of stuff does not work, you can tell pretty quickly when you are nosing around in something that's useless.

If we are going to have another GW Bush-like administration (and it appears we are) that should be good for the US equity markets until the next bubble blows up. Making the rich richer usually benefits the market. I'm not sure where the next bubble is, aside from bonds and Chinese real estate...

Years ago, when I lived in Denver and Federico Pena left his tenure as mayor, he was pretty unpopular. The newspaper published people's predictions as to the next turn in his career, which mainly included things like "Calvin Kline underwear model." Let's do the same for Trump, hopefully...

So thanks for the laugh: the "I'm all for feminism" statement and then the diatribe about the proper place and demeanor of women. I just have to ask you, are you Donald Trump??

I think of IBD as a technical approach, with some filters. They purchase stocks that fit certain technical patterns, but only if the market is cooperating and the stock has good fundamentals.

A healthy dose of ambition is good, but I don't know about greed. I think of ambition as "I want more than I currently have." I think of greed as "I want as much as possible, and more than everyone else has." It is not psychologically good for people to focus on money too much. Make enough to...

I can't speak for all women, but most of the times I have attended trading groups, there is some man there who volunteers, without my asking, to 'advise' me. I don't think it's a pickup thing; I am too old for that. If I am attending a group for the first time, they simply assume that I am...

Of course Hillary is priced in. Everything is priced in.

Christ, Braddock. How is the OP supposed to get his questions answered except by thinking about them and asking them? None of us were born knowing anything except how to poop and suck. Yes, you have to wait for a fill.

I'm not sure why he wants to be president. It doesn't seem like his skill set. He can have more fun if he loses: he can live in a nicer place, run his businesses, and have plenty of time to get his hair rewoven regularly.

I don't set the early alarm any more. As your trading evolves, it will get easier.

Yes, some other people must be making money; I am. It can be done. If you can't ignore the negative people and let the vitriol slide off your back, these forums are going to be a very bad place for your head. The meanness is not about you; it is about whatever happened to these people when...

The problem is that the healthy young people who are supposedly forced to buy insurance are paying the penalty instead of buying it. So the penalty is too low. I don't even care what it costs, even it it's more than my mortgage. Health care insurance is the most important thing I can own...

I wonder if she got bad advice or if she was too stupid to get any....it strikes me that the same person who thinks they can avoid a huge loss at some point when selling short straddles might also believe that the regulations aren't that important and that it might be ok to dupe the investors...