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You can do this on seeking alpha and get paid if your writing is good enough.

How confident are you in: - your ability to trade - your ability to learn - your ability to research

What’s your background? Do you have experience with investment research?

I shorted this Friday’s 73 calls and bought next weeks on a ratio 3/1 while the stock was above 70 (closed when stock hit 63). Dangerous to hold positions with conviction unless you have some inside scoop in the minds of the Reddit folk. edit: oh I see this thread is to shit post on @Saltynuts

There's opinion and then there's news.

I like to read FT in the morning for a global perspective on what's going on (plus that's what global macro managers read, so I can be at least similarly informed). After that, I hop onto the Bloomberg and load up my macro launchpad. I like to see global markets (equity indices/futures, rates...

That dude does not understand how the repo market works. Self-stylized tech stock pickers should avoid making proclamations about treasury markets.

As an ex-BAML trader I hate to say it but it’s just bofa now.

Visa and MasterCard are payment processors. They have a network of banks that enable easy exchange and transfers of money to occur. For payments to process on their networks there is a fee usually paid by the merchant. E.g. you go to Starbucks and spend $5 on a latte using your bofa visa credit...

Kelly Criterion is more of a rule of thumb than a specific risk management method. Generally speaking, if you think you have a slight edge, you start your bet at 2% of bankroll. Instead of trying to figure out your win/loss ratio, you should think about the win/loss on different trade types. So...

Day traders in a nutshell:

Your risk reward is an estimate — it can’t be known until it’s occurred. What that means is that your method of estimating good trades is not that effective.

Why isn’t ET recruiting this type of talent?

No but you can subscribe to an economic calendar

I respect Chris's view and when I talk to friends who work at desks (buy and sell side), there does tend to be a lot of this thinking: The Fed is what matters and the Fed has decided it will manage markets ever higher. Where they are wrong is: 1) The Fed is not causing rates to be low. Rates...

MomentumStrategiesJF96.pdf (upenn.edu)

semi-strong market efficiency; stock prices fluctuate like a random walk along some moving equilibrium price. The microstructure picture (orders being filled) if very different than what's going on in macro (why is someone buying or selling). If you want to trade microstructure, then you need to...

@MrMuppet shedding lots of good insight here.

Are you running out of sample tests to confirm your findings?

Actually the goal of the strategy would be to harvest the returns of dividend payers. You’re right in that the portfolio value would not grow that much y/y — perhaps in the 2-4% range, which on 4-8x leverage, would translate into a neat return. Is this actionable/feasible for an ET trader...