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I need to ask you if the following happens to some of you as well. I run several accounts with them, one of them was partly built trading on news. Others are more recent and less active/aggressive . Since around last year, the older account pretty much always shuts down at 8: 30 am , while...

If the concept of SS is so good , how come all the countries have problems with similar pension systems ? Personally, I think it's theft , the generation that voted this got a freeride at the expense of the following generations. If you die fairly early you won't see much of what you paid in...

tens of billions ? Which ones ? What I am saying is if a CTA makes 14% a year with less than 100 millions, and they start gettting very big, 1 or 2 bln, isn't it reasonable to expect lower returns ?

I was talking to a new CTA with a run of the mill trend following strategy (live track record of 14% annualized over past 7 years, on 40+ markets) and he said he doesn't see any capacity constraints for such program until he hits billions in AUM. I don't think so . For starters as far as I...

CR looks like a great place to live indeed. Any chance , the tax law will change regarding foreign earned income ? And does that exempted income include for example rents, dividends, or royalties ? What is the time zone same as Chicago ? I read CR women like to throw themselves at you...

That is nonsense what you are saying. Being poor is mainly a matter of bad luck, that's it. And being rich is mainly a matter of being lucky. Of course some poor got there entirely because of their own mistakes, and some rich people owe most of their success to hard work and smart . That's not...

There is affirmative action for minorities and quotas for women. I would force large employers to hire a quota of unemployed people and long term unemployed people.

The Federal Reserve is responsible for this. And Reaganism, the conservatives did away with welfare for the poor and replaced it with welfare for the rich . The great criminals are the central bankers who think asset price inflation is good.

This can be simple hedging by a bond fund

read IG index and the other one that has been around forever, forgot the name (UK based). Most are crap i hear.

Does it matter whether your broker is truly STP or not. Oanda for example, is it really a straight through processing broker?

Are those new rules part of the same Dodd Frank legislation which also forbids leveraged metal trading ?

Just wondering if anyone actually arbitrage convertibles and if there are websites providing information about offerings, prices, strategies whatever, anything about convertible bonds .

sell Paulson, a hot streak doesn't last forever

It's a setup probably .

I think the black swan strategy is a bit overated , too costly to implement probably. You need a timing element , and even if you get that right , you also need to take at least some profits when you have them because at expiration you could still lose money , especially with Bernanke and Co.

Bernanke is worse than Greenspan, he is a total disaster . Honestly, I thought he was a liar and knew everything he was doing, but now I think that not only is he a liar, but he doesn't really understand markets and how they react to his experiments. He seems to be living in his own academic...

Women should not be encouraged to work as they are these days . If a woman needs to work or really want to, fine, but society is now brainwashing women into thinking a career is the be all and end all of their life and that if they are a housewife , they will be some sort of second class...

The whole thing is going to morph IMO into a PR disaster for the US and Obama. As always with the US government's claims of "victory" during this war on terror , first comes the excitement and the generalized gullibility , it takes a while for questions to be raised , and eventually the sh*t...

The game has changed with the long only sheeps and other followers of Jim Rogers. For God's sake, the world needs to take these guys out of the game. Oil will then collapse back to $50 .