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Their equity curve looks too good to be true. You could bet the ranch on a fund with a Sharpe ratio of 5 and quickly have all the money in the world. Why would they even bother to take outside money with a record like that? Much less pikers with 6k minimum accounts. Traveler

The tax free aspect of trading your personal residence is pretty strong. But you have to compare it to capital gains tax on stocks which is only 15%. Traveler

I own a house with my partner. I own a rental house in another city that I'm selling. We are renovating a French Quarter house and will move into it when it's done. The house we live in now will be rented out for as long as it returns positive cashflow. As for the buy/rent decision, it's not...

Get someone to sell you a put on it. Or short housing index futures if they have your geographic area. Or the simplest thing. Sell it to someone and rent it back from them. Traveler

These are all great ideas. The basic theme is get a higher paying legit job and keep your expenses as low as possible. That's going to have to do unless you can find a firm or relatives willing to stake you. I always thought someone should develop an exchange for disclosing plans and staking...

You are using free forum tools hosted on a computer that doesn't belong to you. You should not have any expectation of privacy. Traveler

If anything many of them pay more (per share) than you do, but get in return various services and better access to information flow.

This has got to ba a contrarian indicator just by its existence. http://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Dummies-Business-Personal-Finance/dp/0470049278

Glad I cashed out in October. Too bad the US won't mind it's own business.

There are probably people here, myself included, that are looking to place money. Wonder if ET can be a clearinghouse for this activity? I would be interested in talking to anyone who has a good track record and method. I am probably not the only one. Traveler

Panzerman, Don't let this discourage you. Keep coming up with ideas, but find a way to test them first. Traveler

Got some gambling/investment books for sale if you guys are interested. No more room on the shelf, so they gotta go. Traveler http://shops.half.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?HalfSearch&seller=gozer123athome.com

We should really only allow traders to quote returns on the notional underlying rather than on margin. Then the account size comparisons wouldn't matter.

If you're making 80k or less you can use the foreign earned income exclusion, which is intended for US expats who are paying taxes in their resident country rather than in the US. If you reside in a country without tax then you pay tax nowhere. You will have to find a way to turn trading...

Are you talking about fixed Kelly, in which you resize bet sizes downward as your bank lowers, but you remove profits rather than raise bet size as you win? If you're doing the original Kelly you would raise/lower your bets as your bank increases/decreases in proportion to your edge. I...

I didn't think Timberhill wanted to clear for anyone but well-capitalized institutions. They take on a lot of risk agreeing to clear *all* a member's transactions if they are an local without a lot of money. Traveler

A good living is different for each person. It depends on your lifestyle and to some extent, the lifestyles of other people in your peer group. If you are making enough money to not worry about money, you're making a good living. Might be 20k or 500k a year. Traveler

These devices are a social version of stopping to smoke a cigarette. A little time waster if you're sitting by yourself somewhere and don't want to feel like a loser. Sending text messages to faraway people rather than interacting with the people next to you. Traveler

Verizon allows VPN. It is a way around their restrictive AUP. Talk on various message boards is that 10 Gig a month is what gets you kicked out. You'll get a warning first. Traveler

Can you arb these guys against each other or can you never get a fill on the bad quotes?