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My advice is look into real estate investing instead. Financial markets change, the need for people to rent does not. RE can lead to compounded wealth building and early financial independence. The edge needed for this form of investing is 'time' - you have lots of it ahead of you. Scratch...

I had to remove kaspersky. It was causing constant glitches and brought my new alienware pc to a crawl at times. I installed trend micro - I suspect it is also hogging resources but at least seems stable.

I like that. It will enable better position sizing in moderate size accounts.

looks like they had a 45% drawdown in 2008 and ended the year down 23%. Seems like a fairly typical multistrategy fund that is doing highly leveraged convergence trades (relative value) across various asset classes. Like you said - seems similar to LTCM but they are spreading their risks across...

I don't think I'm a Schwager-worthy genius. I mentioned that my smoothest strategy has a sharpe of 3.5. I also trade a lot of other strategies that are around 1.0. I've also developed and traded a lot of crap over the years. I think in most cases people do not arrive at a high sharpe ratio...

scalping on the outrights or on the spreads?

That is an enviable Sharpe - nice! I trade a lot of strategies, some have not produced a high Sharpe. But the smoothest one I have has a Sharpe of about 3.5 - that is computed from daily returns. It is a short term stock trading strategy where I hold less than 1 day. It typically does about 10...

I have also been giving serious thought to moving out of the country since my business is basically location independent. As if 8 years of Obama was not enough, here we have Hillary who seems even more anti business. For reasons unknown to me, she wants to increase the pain and punish hard...

Weird. I have a coffee spread on at IB since August. My portfolio window now shows KT where it used to be KC.

That 10% is a good rule of thumb. A friend who does local RE investing said the same thing. So I made an offer on a multifamily building. After a bunch of negotiating I finally got it down to a price which makes the deal worthwhile. Inspection is tomorrow and hopefully contracts will be drawn...

That is a utopian pipe dream. Taxes are only headed one way and its up, up, UP!!! With hillary being our next prez. Maybe in 2020 we will get somebody like Paul Ryan who steers toward prosperity economics instead of welfare economics.

you can trade Rydex funds there commission free. Just don't expect to be able to frequent trade the Rydex funds because they don't offer a mutual fund switching feature (not that I know of). if you sell you need to wait one day for cash to settle before buying something else.

I wanted to start a thread about Real Estate investments. Specifically, owning rental properties for income. Lately I have been looking at the unused money in my bank account that is not collecting enough interest to keep up with inflation (the fed says we don't have inflation - Yeah Right!)...

yep. This guy used to be a professor of mine!

if I get the direction right!

That is how I do it. Volatility neutral not dollar neutral.

Actually I am a research provider on the IB marketplace and my customers say I'm quite timely! I won't state who I am since I am not a sponsor here.

some of their third party research is pretty timely though...

I think many of the big CTAs like Winton and Transtrend use a blend of trend systems and MR systems. At least, looking at their return profiles it seems so because they have managed to produce decent performance from 2009 to now. Then there are other CTAs who are pure trend followers. These...

What is MGC?