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Dude, I know you feel frustrated, but hey, you HAVE TO DO YOUR OWN WORK! Of course you won't get much of the specifics you want. Take my strategy for example, it identifies about 1-4 stocks per day that I hold overnight and then dump next day. Will my telling you and 100s of others the...

Thanks Calibertrading, That's pretty much the answer I was looking for. Good point. I'm actually working on a paper (whenever I have time left from trading :))where I'm planning to show just that.

Thanks, Daniel_m. I pretty much have to hold everything overnight due to the mechanics of the strategy and so far I've been treating it the way you have described. I usually just ignore the afterhours action. Most of the moves turn out to be very short lived effects of some large trades...

Not really. Unless you have a large enough following and then front-run them :D In all other cases, if competition improves, more arb opportunities are likely to disappear.

BS. I know it sounds cool for someone who has no idea about what is going on in the markets and wants to get into trading fast and make a fortune: "hey, all I gotta do is take a random position and then just manage it but cutting losers and letting winners ride"... BS Unless you have a valid...

...except for those occasions when they realize they have been buying/selling WAY TOO MUCH and starting doing the opposite. Buying the losers and shorting the winners at those break points is a <b>very</b> rewarding strategy. How to find those points - that's a totally different question and...

I have asked this question elsewhere, but most likely the question just got burried in that thread. I'm sorry to be reiterating the same question guys, but it's smth that I'd really like to get some insights on and I believe others might find helpful. So here it goes: I assume some of you...

Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment BRAD M. BARBER University of California at Davis TERRANCE ODEAN University of California at Davis - Graduate School of Management --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

That indeed is the case and has been documented. Check out the paper by Barber and Odean titled "All that glitters: the effect of attention and news on the buying behavior of individual and institutional investors." I was trying to attach it by the pdf exceeds the size limit... You can...

Thanks RS7, no, of course I understand that no names can be revealed etc. I was thinking more in terms of maybe some particular characteristics that such traders have that might enable me to try and figure out who among those account holders that I have might have been pros before. Do they...

Easy to say. What if it goes against you by 2 or 3% before you can move the mouse? Should you just yell "F#ck, I need to get out" and try to close it, or is it more likely that this is just a random temporary move? Of course, if it gradually keeps going against you, then hits your stop...

Your thread on the importance of accountability gave me an interesting research idea (Thanks! :)) I think it would be a great thing to test empirically. There are some very famous papers (e.g. by Shefrin or Odean) that document the "house money" effect and the "disposition effect" (tendency...

I was gonna ask this question a while ago, and now seems like a perfect time. I assume some of you guys have overnight positions open. How do you go about your stops and the afterhours trading? Or do you largely ignore what happens there? The reason I'm asking is that quite often some of the...

\ Who told you anyone did?

...and what happens if you do use the intraday chart? Smth like: "you are pissing in the wind (gail force, coming right at you)", but the chart has hypnotized you into thinking that you are at your lovely 30 million bucks worth beach mansion, taking a releaving piss in one of the twenty...

LOL :D Daniel_m, finally something we agree on! Hehehehe. :cool:

OHLC, are you from there? I was actually talking about that region :D, that's where my high school was...

HAHAHA, so true! :D

They don't have to, they have a monopoly power b/c of what they've got down there! :D At least that's the way it seems to work in this country. In others, the guys are in charge and chicks compete for them... Man, I miss those days... Chicks actually used to fight for guys in our high...

The moves that really matter are a function of new information. To the extent that that information is coming in radomly the markets are random. The short term responses might be predictable b/c the info is not incorporated instantly and/or correctly, and b/c of various market frictions that...