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    POLL: How do you trade?

    why isn't this one available? multiple monitor, basic setup, trading online, occasional trades, using my own trading decisions
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    How much is your account size bottleneck?

    You supply the answers yourself. Trade 1mln in the stocks you now trade, trade your excess capital in other stocks or even venture into other markets. I moved from small caps to large caps pair trading which didn't really suit me and are now doing small caps and something totally unrelated...
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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    Depends on where you reside. Japanese investors have not seen the dollar slide against the yen. And 4%+ seems pretty good compared to 1% domestically.
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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    yeah those dumb T-Bond investors looked really stupid last july/august and way back in 2001/2002.
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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    Bit of double accounting if you use both inflation and devaluation ??
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    Trading Natural gas using T/A

    it's always best when there are a large number of experts in a market to trade on fundamentals? because as an uninformed retail speculator you will understand the fundamentals much better than all the experts. :confused: :confused:
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    IMF says USD OVERVALUED

    wow. just a week ago he stated the dollar was undervalued. your man on drugs? http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSMDT00444220071008?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews MADRID (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar is currently undervalued and this could cause volatility in the financial...
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    Morgan Stanley Traders Lost $390 Million in One Day in August

    Or if you are like the OP you just stick with your original choice :p
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    POLL: What is your PRIMARY tech analysis method

    and here i was thinking trend following is TA
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    “Way of the Turtle”

    nice, you completely missed the point of this book.
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    POLL: Who is your Broker?

    MF Global, formerly Man Financial
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    Is this possible?

    Today I entered an order to buy 3 FCF8 MOO. I got only filled on one @ 114.8 even though the price subsequently traded lower. Is this possible?
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    POLL: What is your PRIMARY tech analysis method

    good old trendfollowing doesn't fall under TA?
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    Anyone understand this?

    Just browsing at cta performance records and reading their strategy i came across the following: 100% Forex/Currency Carry Trade strategy that is hedged to protect against the large dislocations that occur from the unwinding of the carry trade. The method is purely math based and does not...
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    What CTA fee structure you like the most?

    People thinking from the perspective of an investor?
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    What CTA fee structure you like the most?

    Wrong there. But then again I view my fund as a partnership with my investors and not as a get-rich-quick scheme. And I also like to think I get more clients with that fee structure but hard to prove that.
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    trading limit on wheat: What can I do?

    the some people who are paying $70 and more for a barrel of oil
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    HFRI: Hedge Funds +0.45% for July, +7.95% YTD

    obviously markets (and hedge funds) bounced back from the lows in mid august. s&p ended the month with a plus and a lot of (quant) funds recouped most or all of their losses. these prelim performance figures don't look much different from the realtime investable indices.
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    Inflation-adjusted S&P 500 down 8% - 63% this decade

    yeah well.. look at what it costs to store it... alternatively... if you would have invested in wheat futures and continually rolled over into new contracts... you'd be up only 45% excluding interest on the margin. and that profits come entirely from the last 2 months....
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    Inflation-adjusted S&P 500 down 8% - 63% this decade

    How's it doing in cotton terms?
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