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A lot of the losses from trading come from commission, fees, and slippage. And those wil be there regardless if you invert it or not.

"destroying the dollar" is not as easy as it sounds. FDR confiscated all the gold, gave people 20 per oz for their gold, then immediately set the POG at ~30/oz, an overnight 50% inflation. I've seen articles that speculate the FED wants inflation at 7% for 10 years or 5 to 6% for 13 years to...

The first step in the budget process is the President submits his request, with his guidelines on how much should be spent. I'm sure if the president submitted a balanced budget request, congress wouldn't add hundreds of billions or trillions to it to create a large deficit. Also...

The president is the leader and takes final responsibility for the budget. Virtually all of the budgets that Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and Obama signed into law had massive deficits. The deficits under Clinton were much more reasonable. Spin it however you want.

You mean can china afford a US war with Iran? US taxpayers haven't fully funded anything in this country since Clinton was president.

By taxpayers, I assume you mean the Chinese government, correct?

Oliver - I don't know if this answers your question but here goes. You have to be careful about backtesting with SD. If your strat is working on the current bar, say Bar[Close,1], then you MUST buy and sell on close. If you use the previous bar, say Bar[Close,1,1] , then you must buy and sell...

This rule seems silly. It will just force people to trade options or some other device where they can obtain leverage. Adding this rule or constantly changing the short selling rule won't cause people to suddenly become better investors.

The FED won't be abolished. If anything, it will gain even more power in the coming months/years. Ron Paul's push to audit may slow down the FED's power grab, but it won't stop it.

Around 1000 share orders, right now.

This is a fast question for anyone using tradestation. How much slipage do you usually see for a trade involving a liquid stock ( over 3million shares per day) and a tight bid/ask spread? For example, if you buy a stock with a price of 6.50 per share with B/A of 6.49 and 6.51 what price do you...

8/21 to 8/27: (8/20 updated 13 trades , 2.99L) 8/21 14 trades , -12.3199L 8/24 17 trades, -5.825L 8/25 15 trades, -1.0385L 8/26 18 trades, -0.6790L 8/27 13 trades, 4.7723L Summary: 221 trades, 100wins, 121 losses, total profit: 11.62L Note: new automated setups were added to the...

I'm using strategy desk Athlon.

Aug 20: 14 trades, gain 2.951L

Aug10 to aug 19: Aug 10 : 23 trades, gain -18.13L Aug 11: gain 6.8245L -1.394032798 2.921947432 3.277215629 -0.391691072 0.934501465 1.183998523 -0.702975102 0.99557646 Aug 12: gain 0.89L 1.224390937 -1.949137374 1.656745135 0.761350268 0.27513258 0.845776514...

There was plenty of stimulus. It was just mis-appropriated. Rushing those huge sums to the banks without any guarantees they would use it to create jobs or lend to consumers ( which they of course haven't done) was a massive miscalculation.

I made an accurate observation that FAS did not track the DOW moves as I would have expected. I shall adjust my strategy accordingly.

There is something wrong with FAS, you are right. FAS went up with the DOW after the open, however after that, it stagnated despite the DOW's continuing climb. The other ETFs behaved properly.

Responding to the last post, conventional world war is the fastest way to reduce population. It's not a PC thing to say, but it is the truth. In WW2, Russia lost 15 to 20% of their pop in less than 4 years. Japan and Germany both lost about 10% of their pops. China lost a few% of their...

Neo - can you summarize the trading results?