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definitely one of the smartest posts on ET I've read

20% is a big drawdown. most funds get shut down at that level, or earlier. This is from an analyst/manager who, according to his own site, worked at Tudor, Moore, and Caxton: "Lots of people seem to believe that those who manage investments for a living do the same things that personal...

it's pretty clear somebody hired her because he last name rhymes with "stocks." And she's hot. There is no way she's sitting at her computer and tweeting out this stuff. https://twitter.com/foxonstocks

I thought Cohen was sitting at his desk trading eminis based on innate feel. Lol. Not really. "Cohen’s natural ability as a tape reader has been a big part of his success, former employees say. In addition to trading his own stocks and overseeing 300 managers, analysts and traders globally...

With automakers' demand for aluminum growing explosively as they seek to improve fuel efficiency, aluminum providers are selling out their automotive capacity almost as fast as they can build new plants, raising the question of whether some car makers could be caught short in the future. The...

your point was that my post was beneath your consideration, viz "not even worth analyzing"

if your point is that there is no value in analysing volume, I'd have to disagree. price action alone contains less information than price action plus volume. the point is to create a framework for evaluating situations where volume contains information. nowhere in the post do I suggest a strategy.

http://www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=SD&ty=c&ta=0&p=m Longer term perspective.

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=SD&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=p70824977460 If you look at this chart, the firm announced good news (a large asset sale) and the stock went down on high volume. Normally a decline on high volume would be bearish, indicating a negative reaction to the news. Let's assume...

it's over. As commissions declined, banks compensated with higher leverage, complexity and assuming more risk. more leverage and buffalo the customers is not a real business. plus the internet destroyed the information advantage the banks enjoyed. upgrades and downgrades will eventually...

in the context of his total gains, his losses don't look that bad. more like 25% of total account value. he was smart to take money out before he lost it.

"But some people really do want to underperform!" is not a persuasive argument.

stockcharts adjusts for dividends http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ZTR:SPY&p=W&b=5&g=0&id=p01679063070

You know the ethnicity of Hussman, Faber, Kohler, Gartman and Nusbaum? That's 5/9 of uncertain ethnicity. Only "Nusbaum" sounds vaguely Jewish, and it could just be a normal German name.

AUM from $36M to $14M over 2010 to 2012. http://capitalistpig.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CPAM_Audit.pdf

Copper is already near a low, so what are chances copper hits *new* low with a) low inventories and b) recovering economy. Put those two together, plus price momentum, and you have more higher prices.

At least we've moved on from "1% a month is a heroic achievement of immense and near-superhuman skill" lol

power of compounding vs. law of large numbers - who wins? at first, poc puts up win after win. In the end, loln always wins.

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