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    90% traders don't make it???

    Ripley where do you come up with this shit? Most traders I know started with at least that, where does the 90% number come from? What is the survival rate for people that use an advance from their credit cards to get their trading capital? :D
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    Negative Yen Depo Rates

    Deflation If paper money is worth more in the future and I loan you some money for a couple months, you will have to give me less paper money back when you repay because the real value has gone up. This is why people are storing money in safes in their homes.
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    Negative Yen Depo Rates

    And why should they buy stocks Japan has been in a 15 year bear market
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    How calculate trailing stops?

    a multiple of average true range below yesterday's close that doesn't come into affect until the price has moved up X atr's
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    Best times for trading CME FX Futures?

    I see the most volume from 8 am to 2:30pm Chicago time.
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    Question re: 30 year Mortgage Hedge

    Yeah if you short 3 bond contracts from the CBOT at todays price you will get close to having a perfect hedge for your $350,000. If you can sell the June 06 contract, I don't think there is enough volume right now so you probably have to sell the front month and roll it foward. Tell your broker...
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    Risk of Losing More than Investment with a CTA?

    You still get the tax break
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    Risk of Losing More than Investment with a CTA?

    I think you mean MAR not MER, and the sharpe ratio is the typical measurement for how leveraged a fund is. With notional funding there is a risk of losing your more than your whole investment even if you are a LLC.
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    Getting long term cheapest 2x leverage on Nasdaq 100

    buy a futures contract
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    Risk of Losing More than Investment with a CTA?

    I think all professional traders, especially futures traders, incorporate themselves under an LLC.
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    Futures Fair Value Question?

    no you have to factor in dividends and interest rate. Look on the cme website it tells you the calculation
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    Risk of Losing More than Investment with a CTA?

    Most people would set up the account through an LLC so they wouldn't be liable for any losses beyond their original investment.
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    $100B hedge fund

    Skaplz, your retarded. It says in the article that his fund has averaged 34% a year with no down months in the past two, killing your returns. That is for a much longer time period than 26 days. And by the way $67/day = about 8 bucks an hour, I hear Mcdonalds pays $9.50 maybe you should do...
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    Selling systems I developed to hedge fund

    Why wouldn't you raise a little money and start your own fund with your systems. IMO that seems like the best and potentially most profitable way tp go
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    The Truth is out

    The fact of the matter is that even with charging the fees they still beat mutual funds, thats why they can charge the fees.
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    renumeration for CTA fund raiser

    20% of what ever fees you earn on the money
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    Wheat and Soybean Outlook reports

    While you are figuring that out you should buy beans, meal, and oil, they are going straight up. It would be nice to make some money while you do your homework right? 5yr
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    There are no guaranteed Stops. EVER.

    Do you trade at all? There are predetermined news announcements that move the market on a daily basis. Are you trading on the first friday of every month, do you not notice something happening?
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    Black Monday ??

    way to be on top of that, kin
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    the EU mess

    Just wanted to point out that an average monthly income of 3000 Euros, is 36,000euros a year, so it seems that countries that have average monthly incomes of less than 3000 euros would fit pretty well into an integrated europe. I am assuming that you meant that 26k was the average yearly income...
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