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You could go short the VIX itself. There are VIX futures and VIX options. Here's a chart of the front month (F9) futures contract:

You can system-trade an unlimited number (provided you've got the necessary capital). Computers that landed Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon were ten thousand times slower than what you've got in your laptop, right now. If computers are making all the trading decisions, you can simultaneously...

Parabolic was created by Welles Wilder and revealed in his 1978 book Wilder says: "The Parabolic Time/Price System derives its name from the fact that when charted, the pattern formed by the stops resembles a parabola, or if you will, a French Curve. The system allows room for the market...

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Yep, I trade Class III Fluid Milk futures. One of my systems shorted Dec-08 milk on 04-Sep-2008 and is still in the trade today, 20-Dec-2008. (I rolled the position from the Z8 to the H9 contract on 11/24). I find that longer term systems whose average profit per trade is more than 5 or 10...

Here's another guy who exposed Madoff long ago, complete with extensive corroboration from his mother who says "yes he sure did". http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihAaFD-AY7JK68kC36YAT7cA_xIgD955IP880

Read "Blue Ocean Strategy" by W. Kim to (re)learn that competition is neither inevitable nor unavoidable.

What books and/or websites have you already read?

"I CLAIM THAT In 2000, I advised a family-office on their alternative investments, and constructed a portfolio on their behalf. I had free rein (thanks! anon). Included in their legacy portfolio was a sizable Madoff position. As a fiduciary - and a conservative one - coming on the heels of LTCM...

Tom, Dick, and Harry go to the liquor store together. Each of them purchases a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne. Each of them pays $150. Tom gives his bottle to his boss, as a holiday gift. Dick brings his bottle home and drinks it with his wife. Harry accidentally drops his bottle in...

More correct to say, "On December 11th, this woman CLAIMED that she exposed Madoff long ago. But she offered no proof that her claim was true."

You have left out Ken Roberts the cowboy hat guru, and Welles Wilder ($20K to join his Delta Society). Don't forget Ed Dobson who started a publishing company to sell his books like "The Trading Rule That Can Make You Rich." You've also left out the amazing George Angell whose junkmail sales...

Buy the cheapest one and start using it. (That would probably be a pirated copy of Tradestation 2000i, which you may be able to find somewhere, for fifty dollars). Use it for a few months and figure out whether you like it or not. If you do like it, you're done. If not, you are now in a...

"Why aren't there more billionaire traders?" immediately suggests the followup questionsHow many billionaire traders are there? How do you know? How many billionaire traders are there, who are completely unknown to you and everyone else?

Dare to innovate. Choose fresh new places, spots that have never hosted a Jake Bernstein seminar or a Ken Roberts training session. Many an unimaginative dolt has held meetings at the Cupertino Inn or the Airport Hilton. Stand above the crowd, be different. North: Novato East: Livermore...

Invest the same number of hours learning to trade, that you invested learning to play poker. Then when you know how, you'll also have an appreciation of your own personal +EV as a trader. You'll be in a good position to decide which you like better, at that time and place in your life: trading...

"Every major bear is now bullish" Even Robert Prechter? His website at http://www.elliottwave.com/ still appears pretty bearish, to me.

When I apply "scaling out" techniques to a wide variety of fully mechanical trading systems, my backtesting results generally agree with the above conclusion expressed by member stevegee58: scaling out typically reduces the volatility ("jaggedy-ness") of the equity curve, and increases the...

Have you tried getting quotes on a Synthetic short put? (Long the futures, short a call with $50 strike price)