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so 2 many... 4 out of 6... huh? was that above or below your usual average?

We live in some pretty weird times...

I dont think arbitrage is 0 risk. They call it "picking pennies and dimes in front of the steamroller", for a reason... when things go wrong, they go WRONG.

Good effort on that trade... I´ve never traded bonds... I´ll give em a shot sometime... Yeah I don´t ever try to do any trading based on math models... or statistics... I don´t even like applying elliot waves and fibbonnacci to the market... but it does entretain me to theorize and fit...

Brilliant! We could start a dating service inside the forum... or perhaps not.

I need to find the complete list of the Russel 3k index or the whole list of symbols in the NYSE, for an arb. Does anyone know a site where I can get the whole list in excel or another format?

why would you buy that?

Good effort, you´re using good risk management, not hanging on {or hoping on} losers, letting winers ride... profits to risk ratio around 3:1... Sounds like you have a sane strategy. On market eficiency, I study economics, and I´ve done my share of thinking as to why economic models...

you mean blank cds?

Reducing risk to 0 is actually quite simple. Go in the market and lose absolutly everything you own, + a ton of margin. {perhaps going short on oil with everything you can get, something big enough to take your broker down with you...} one day later you have 0 risk... simple eh?

There´s a problem with the alert system... in the event of a market crash... one of those black days... you´ll waste valuable time before excecuting your exit. That could cost you a lot of money. You should set your stop at the absolute maximun you´re willing to lose in a particular...

Those are called daytrader wannabes... real daytraders scalp at the floor or through corporate accounts. These guys have a much better cost structure, because they move very large volumes {several million shares a day}... It´s just a matter of scale economies.

It´s been at least 6 years since the last time I bought a cd...

all in good theory of course... you got to know when to scale in and when to scale out...

good effort. Sounds like you got things covered. A few questions that you probably already asked yourself... What's the maximum loss you're willing to take on a single trade? what's the profit you expect from any trade? what's the average profit you actually get on any given trade? what's...

The problem with averaging down is that you might find yourself telling the market which way you want it to go... by buying while the price is dropping, for instance... instead of asking the market which way it is going already... Scaling is different from averaging down... when averaging...

let me see if I can recall this right... the option is a contract that gives you the possibility, but not the obligation, to buy{call} or sell{put} an equity at a previously agreed time and price. or something like that.

no psytrance, no drum and bass =?

The answer is far from simple. It´s pretty much anyone who owns a bond... but you´re probably refering to who controls the vast mayority of it... we can only speculate.

The problem is that it´s extremly hard to be 100% objective once you´re already in a position... emotions start playing with you and you start ignoring information that you consider painfull... unless of course you really know what you´re doing.