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Serious case of ignorance of recent history. Next you will say that USA started WW I and WW II. European are ready to kill each other given a chance. This is what history tells us on numerous occations in the past. Look what is happening in Ireland for such a long time, Spain, Italy, in...

It is clear that you cannot have a civilized conversation. Some believe that those who cannot act civilized should not be able to reproduce. I wonder what kind of people attack someone so brutally like you did attack me without even knowing the person. You must be a very frustrated...

It is obvious that you lived in a country that imposed price controls for the last 70 or so years. Are you saying that you will teach Americans about free market forces? Are you that ignorant? Ron

My 2 cents: Oil futures trading must be terminated. There is plenty of oil supply yet prices are rising like no other while many in the industry are talking about market manipulation using futures trading, something along the lines of what Amarath tried to do with the natural gas prices...

No Extreme premise. Another extreme. No sane debate can be based on extreme premises. USA is known as the country where thousands of immigrants from around the world became rich, some extremely wealthy. I want to know if an immigrant can get wealth in these "other countries" that try...

just ok? in this market? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=SENSEX:IND Ron

There is no such a thing as win-win in trading (non-zero sum). The owner of the shares loses if the short-seller wins by the same amount (minus expenses). If the short-seller loses, the owner of the shares wins. This is trivial. Short selling is a zero-sum game and this game is played by he...

I think down on increasing volume may be a sign of panic, nothing good about it. With volume you never know what portion of it represents actual buying/selling and what portion of it represents market maker or specialist round trips to create the impression there is a lot going on until...

Birdman, do yourself a favor and consult a good CPA. Ron

Maybe this is the cause of the recent plunge. Everyone is trying to get a rebate :) Ron

I'll do the same. I have read great reviews. Maybe we should continue after reading it. Regardless, the book is about things every serious trader must know and understand. Ron

I didn't add any variables to the game. I just proposed that profits/losses are evaluated based on benchmark returns. This is nothing new and it is how people in the fund industry do it all the time. I found this website that IMO puts the issue on a correct foundation...

Trivially wrong. It is clear even to a kid that the seller gave up a stake in a company in exchange for needed cash and that decision must be evaluated with respect to the performance of a widely accepted benchmark, for instance the S&P 500 index performance. If the seller did worse than the...

John, If you don't want to post that's fine but stick around there is a lot to learn from these threads. There are some people here with enormous knowledge about trading and system development, as well as, working with various platforms. Read the second article in the list of online articles...

Not all equations in math are of the form y = ax+b. Futures trading (and Forex for that purpose) is a TRIVIAL case of zero-sum game. But not every case has to be a trivial case. Stock trading is shown to be easily converted to a zero-sum game without altering its basic nature. When a game can be...

The real fool is the one who wrote the article in that web site. How can you expect a journalist to know anything about such a complicated subject anyways? The fallacy in what they think it is a zero-sum fallacy is that money is not defined the same way as in table games such as poker. In...

True, mostly retail traders. Ron

John, I have been using pattern recognition to trade futures and equities for several years. The major shortcoming of these methods is that you need sufficient price history and thus you cannot trade relatively new issues. There is a Metastock add-on by John Murphy for chart patterns. I also...

is equivalent to stopping paying for crude oil only with dollars, as I explained in another thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1541709#post1541709 Currencies will become more stable that way. US is paying the price of oil pricing in dollars with a fast...

I wonder why all of you have missed the point. Dollar has a negative correlation with crude oil prices. It is easy to see that by looking at weekly EUR/USD and continuous CL charts. the reason this is happening is that oil producing countries including Russia which is also a major natural...