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    It Turns Out Money Can Buy Happiness: UK Study

    Correlation does not imply causality. There is no statistical basis to argue that having money makes you happy. There might be confounding factors, or happy people simply are more likely to make more money throughout their careers. I have a lot of money, my happiness didn't increase. I didn't...
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    Are Hedge Funds Still for Suckers?

    And what makes you think a typical Hedge Fund would benchmark vs. a 60/40 bond/equity allocation? Guess what: Hedge Funds didn't beat gold from 2000-2015. But why would they? Apples and oranges.
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    Are Hedge Funds Still for Suckers?

    The value (or curse) of owning hedge funds will show during the next bear market. Not during a tiny 5% airpocket.
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    Marketsurfer says LONG AMD

    "We" as in you and your kid brother, paper trading from your mom's basement?
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    Does selling index options offer above average risk adjusted returns?

    Short answer is yes. Caveat: just because it worked last 25 years doesn't guarantee future results. Data see http://www.cboe.com/micro/put/
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    What Druckenmiller, Soros, Icahn Are Saying About Commodities

    Says who? Japan is waiting 25 years now.
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    oh no...jim rogers says the fed will save the markets ONE last time!!!! I hope he isnt serious..

    And saying "Oil will only go up" for the last 10 years. Oh boy was he right! Buy commodity futures! Can only go up!
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    $70,000 minimum wage at this private company...

    The guy probably had good intentions but he's clueless on how to run a business.
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    What Druckenmiller, Soros, Icahn Are Saying About Commodities

    Here's Faber pumping gold miners 2 years ago when they were 100% higher: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100952482 Just one soundbite from 2013. There are numerous other of the last decade.
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    What Druckenmiller, Soros, Icahn Are Saying About Commodities

    As he has for the last 15 years while mining stocks have had a total return of 0% from 2000-2015.
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    Jim Simons Trashes Trend Following

    You didn't post sh**.
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    Taleb fund and how it profited

    Apparently there's no market environment they can lose money is there. What a bunch of baloney.
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    Jim Simons Trashes Trend Following

    Your reply just shows how clueless you are. Medallion did NOT return an annualized 80% what on earth are you clown smoking. Also, Medallion manages low single billion USD -- if it was open like Winton is its returns would suffer drastically. Harding manages $25bln. Plus you left out leverage...
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    Jim Simons Trashes Trend Following

    Its like when Soros says value investing doesn't work. And then you see Buffet did very well with it. Simons says trendfollowing is garbage, then I see David Harding did very well with it. This kind of non-sense doesn't only happen in finance. Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones said Heavy...
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    Please comment on this simple volatility strategy

    Look at a longterm chart of VXX. That's your risk.
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    Peter Schiff says the only thing supporting economy and markets is the fed!!

    How is he a great fundamentalist? He seems completely delusional in his economic analysis. 2011 he said "The US debt problem is much worse than Greece's" and "Europe is in much better shape economically than the US". Fast forward 4 years he sounds like an idiot. Exactly the opposite has played...
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    Peter Schiff says the only thing supporting economy and markets is the fed!!

    Peter Schiff is a scaremonger who is recruiting idiots to buy his funds and brokerage products. People investing with him must have been poleaxed: Australian Dollar in bear market, gold stocks down 80% from peak, US Dollar 100% above the target he set out in 2004.
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    WOWWOWWOW---- VXUP DOWN 91%-----VXDN down 73%

    Reminds me of that Shiller housing ETF with one class for rising home prices and one class for falling home prices. Nice in theory but it disappeared within a few months.
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    Why not always invest in Deep In The Money / Delta 1 Options?

    Even if there's only a 50c spread in the options that's very expensive to 'trade' in and out of.
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    Taleb fund and how it profited

    You can't make generate any sort of interest outside of 30 day T-Bills without taking any risk. The BM interest rate paid at more prime brokers is around .1-0.15% right now. If you want to do better than that you either take on outright long positions (which are not risk-free) or at the very...
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