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Agree. IMO this is not your biggest concern as a short seller. But all these things add up to additional volatility. The goal of any trading strategy is to maximize returns and minimize the standard deviation of those returns. Volatility in your own returns can blow an account to zero even...

This doesn't mean they are too rigid. They just aren't quantitative traders. They are fundamental traders. I'm a quantitative trader. You are too apparently. And both of them have demonstrated an enormous lack of ability to do proper risk management. You have to wonder why they couldn't hire...

This is correct and it is the area where there is a lot of naive thinking. People frequently claim that 1 in 1,000 events are infrequent enough they can ignore them, yet they can't tell you the probability of blowing their account to zero. They absolutely don't know and don't care. They think...

Surely you are aware that quantitative trading strategies have been used since the 1980s. Ren Tech?? Millennials and Gen Z are hardly the first to try and use math to trade markets. At least you and I could probably agree that math is a powerful tool when trading. We would disagree on risk...

People have different levels of risk tolerance. My trading style is likely far more rigid than you would like but I sleep well and generate a good return with a low standard deviation. My database and servers are miles ahead of spreadsheets. It's engineered and professional. But I'm old...

Yes and no. As an engineer who has done big data mining projects for over 20 years I have the background to crunch the numbers on this stuff correctly, which I have done. There is potential to make money on the short side just like there is on the long side. The pitfalls for the "look at the...

The risks with these strategies are not immediately obvious to a casual observer. It's just like selling uncovered calls or puts. A very small number of trades go exponentially wrong and you lose multiples of your initial "investment". Anyone can take the trade data and do the math. You find...

His trades are free to see on youtube with a 6 second delay on the video. What is it you are claiming, exactly?? No one is watching some third party chatroom for Ross' real-time trades.

If you have little trading experience then maybe it's not a bad deal. I've been trading for 30 years and have no interest in his course work. But a discussion about his success and trading style is interesting.

Have you never watched him trade? He's out of his trades long before anyone can talk about them in some chatroom and then get in and back out again.

Although this is sometimes true regarding Ross' trades I don't think it usually applies. He frequently is not driving significant volume changes when he (and his followers) pile in. This certainly is not true for all of his trades, however. And imo it does not appear he does better on the low...

I'm not a subscriber and I'm not handing over my own research. But you can do it and you will come to the same conclusion.

Analyzing emotion won't get you anywhere in this game. Give that up. His trades are available if you want to see them and you can also review trade data from the exchanges and match it to his videos.

He says that his students have access to his executions history. So buy his trading course and you've got them. He does not appear to be hiding anything. Which makes me wonder, have you made all your trade executions public or are you hiding yours? And can I apply to same logic to the fact...

Math is a wonderful thing. Apply well understood probability theory and calculate where your odds are best. If you don't have the data to do that then you are just guessing. Don't guess. Don't gamble. Don't speculate. Unless what you are really asking for is permission to do that.

There is no evidence that it is as complicated or contrived as you describe. There's no need to "plant" students or fake trades. Regarding the fast moving stocks, I really don't think he is taking a position early and then acting like he just saw it. When news breaks you will sometimes see a...

The real utility is doing most of what we pay billions to wall street firms to do except at a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost. All technology that became widely adopted offered some utility (light bulb, computer mouse, Internet, etc). All these were just toys in the beginning. Crypto is...

If you watch Ross carefully it's pretty clear what is going on. But people won't like it. People want this boiled down to one sentence. People want good vs evil. People want to know if he can really trade or if he is just frontrunning people who try and mirror his trades. People want to...

We must be talking about two different things. I call a "prop firm" a company that hires people, negotiates employment agreements, raises capital and works as a team to operate a proprietary trading strategy. This group of people might include software developers, mathematicians, finance...

These are apples and oranges comparisons. Many strategies can only be performed on very large scales such as the bond spreads LTCM was trading. Very different career paths imo.