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I am worried about a kind of hidden Government obligation that can quickly become debt. When I sold my house the buyers had only $ 200 for a down payment. I had to charity donate $ 7000 to the Genesis Foundation so the Genesis Foundation can give the buyer about $ 3000 for a down payment...

Hey lets leave professional football teams out of this.

I write my own software. I think it helps to write my own software. I can write code for different systems or to handle various needs.

If I intend to fail then failure is success.

I question about the "disappearing dollar" scenario. The dollar only disappears if other nations do not print lots of their currency. I think lots of countries are on a currency printing binge. The exchange rates against the US Dollar remain little changed. Every government benefits. Citizens...

I think it was Pam Anderson and Kid Rock getting married. Who is gonna trade a security when they could read about Pammy?

Backtesting is all that I can do to test a system. The alternative is to trade an untested system and hope. I find using an optimized system seems to reduce the volatility and drawdowns overall. Just my feeling, I do not have side by side comparison data.

When I test a new method I start as small as possible. Sometimes I trade as little as 1 share. The idea is to test if the system has hidden flaws, not to make a big pile of cash. If the test appears good, then I increase the position size. I find it helpful to consider how my system behaves...

I don't trust the courts, judges, and Government of the USA to protect my wealth from a predatory woman that uses marriage / divorce as a tool to steal my money. I suspect this is one problem that the muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan are not accepting. In California a woman can marry a rich...

I notice that there are many hispanic looking people demonstrating outside Walmart in Florida but I do not remember seeing hispanic looking people demonstrating outside the Ford assembly plant (a UAW site) in Michigan. I wonder why?

I suspect the USA is "too big to fail." I look at a map of the world and imagine what the world would be like if the USA disappears. I think there would be big changes. China has no big buyer for their products, India has no big buyer for their services, and Europe is the sole economic and...

What is your equity now?

What do you think the US Government should do now?

I think system trading is ultimately discretionary because the trader has to decide what securities to trade, what risk level to use and what method to use. Anyway, I expect to find Automated System Development for Non-Programmers in the same store with footballs for non football players and...

Feelings of frustration could be your mind's way of telling you to develop your own method of trading. What do you think is preventing you from getting personally involved and performing your own studies of price behavior?

When a girlfriend learns that I have money she immediately calls a meeting of the mother / sister / girlfriends to decide what she is going to do with the money. My best move is to tell the girls that I'm broke. Then I can trade in peace.

I heard a story, maybe it is true. A neighbor told me that so many flippers are stuck with houses they can not sell that the flippers are renting houses section 7 to low income families. We have the odd situation of having welfare bums living in newer, beautiful houses in fashionable...

Oh just do it. What's the worst that can happen? Maybe it is a bad deal and you get another job. I remember a terrific artist. I recall someone asking the artist, "How can I become a great artist such as yourself?" The artist replies, "If you want to be a great artist you have to make a...

I wonder what John Murphy's performance record is. I don't see one mention of risk, risk management, how to optimize the risk levels used. Buying a security is not enough. If the risk level is too small then profit is insignificant. If the risk level is too big then the losses can be big.

I find the hardest thing in trading is to not trade. Honestly, doing nothing makes money for me. I'm studying this fund DODGX. I calculate DODGX has a cumulative annual growth rate of 92 % and a turnover of about 15 %. The managers don't sell often. Returns are high. As I think back on my...