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lol I'm not to worried about that. The entire reason their economy is on fire right now it they are doing the *exact* opposite of what you said. They are lowering tariffs and removing barriers to entry for direct foreign investors. And this trend will continue as they are in the process of...

Well economically I should point out one thing.. every time a company hires an Indian/Chinese programming firm and gets value (as in higher output for lower cost), that *does* have many advantages. Yes, the programmers are hurt in the US. However, offsetting that are that productivity...

Hi all. I'm running some historical tests, so far it has been EOD but have a few intra-day ones to run as well. I've mostly been using Primate.com EOD data, Excel and Perl, as well as the 30-day free trial of Wealth-Lab. I'm having difficulty deciding on who to use for both the...

I had a question about that. What is the difference between using the matched funding and just doubling your leverage traditionally? -Taric

Thanks for the tips, Curtis.. sounds good. I really need to find effective shorter-term strategies to diversify in any case, so maybe it will take care of itself as far as portfolio level volatility. Btw I just got back from my wedding and honeymoon, went very well :) -Taric

Hi all. I'm working on a system for long-term (1 year holds) directional currency speculation, and that part is so far looking pretty good. Is uses 75% fundamental, 25% technical analysis. At this point I want to add some shorter term trading to the system to reduce risk, since it holds for...

I've been looking at their platform with interest the last few weeks as well. I like the fact that: - simple, but effective platform - reasonably large number of currency pairs to trade (20-30), unlike some dealers that just have the majors And the single most important thing for me...

Excellent post, efficiency. Great points. To me the main problem is how can an economy continue to maintain high levels of real investment when its savings rate is low? Our savings rate is 2%, down from about 20% 30 years ago. China has a savings rate of 40%. Their capital /...

===== When depressions come they are because NOBODY see's them coming. ===== Well, I would say that generally stock market crashes by themselves don't cause depressions, however they can be the catalyst. Or in the case of the Great Depression, the stock market crash did some decent damage...

Well a couple of caveats here :) First of all let me say I don't trade this way number one, just technical stuff so if I think the world is crashing and my indicators say go long US growth stocks I have to go against my instict unfortunetly :) Anyhow not all doomsayers are wrong all the...

I agree for the most part, at least as far as being a major risk-- I can't predict it will happen but it is on my mind.. I disagree slightly on the jobs issue, I don't think it is quite that bad. However I see the record debt (not so much government but private sector) as the largest risk...

Interesting fund. One question-- the fund looks more like a hedge fund/CTA than a mutual fund. And I thought there were all sort of regulations such as $200k/year income etc, 99 person limit,etc. With a 5k minimum I am wondering if they found some way to allow even non-accredited investors...

Actually I'm more curious not just what the SEC,exchange, and/or brokerage firm's maximum leverage is, but more of how much leverage do individual day-traders typically use? Will they typically max out at around 16x? (This is of course assuming a trader has 100K + in their account so they...

Just curious, for those of you day trading just the ES and nothing else, what kind of leverage is common? 5x1 or so I'm guessing? Personally I'm a just learning bits of day-trading, haven't started doing it. My trades are purely EOD and I limit leverage to the equivalent volatility of 2x1...

Aaron, Ahh-- thanks for the info-- that helps a lot. I just assumed they would need all the trades for some reason like calculating maximum number of days in drawdown or that kind of thing (though I guess most of the hedge fund databases aren't nearly that detailed). Also I don't know if...

Yeah, I agree if you were doing stuff like fundamental trading + news trading that is really tough. Or any sort of day trading. For mechanical stuff that doesn't trade too often, it is easier I must admit.. Yeah I am actually weighing various pros and cons right now in my system. The...

In case this helps anyone, I found some more information here.. IB will let you pay a fee (not sure how much) to do a special printout and direct mail of your account balance / trading history for auditing purposes. However, Tradestation has a procedure for direct trading history export to...

I'm figuring I'll eventually need audited statements of my trading history before I can raise money, etc. I'm in the middle of opening a new account with interactivebrokers.com and just asked them what the fee is for getting paper statements-- and they don't support that at all. They say I...

saxon, Yeah that's what I'm wondering about :) It probably is good to take a breather here and there :) -Taric

No-- I definitely won't be doing any work on the honeymoon whatsoever-- totally agree there. Heh - I just asked my fiancee what about a year later if it would be ok if I brought my "job" with me to work for part of the vacation, and got on the internet and/or satellite phone. She said...