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Good Points. The Chinese invented: STEEL, iron plows, cast iron, harness for horses, stirrup, paper, printing block, moveable type, porcelain, ship rudder, the compass, crossbow, gunpowder, guns, paper currency, belt drive, cannon, blast furnace, chain drive, tofu, crank, gunpowder...

Take up kung fu or some martial arts. Learn discipline and how to destroy cinderblock with head.

Crack spread margins between the crude and gasoline is seasonally low during fall. It's a good thing crude is not hitting these highs in the summer. Having said that, if cl is in the 100's by summer, you can bet on $5 gasoline.

market says, "let me come in" not by the hair on your chinny chin chin. then i'll huff and i'll puff and i'll blow your house in.

just following the trend..

fed ease or not, the dollar will collapse before the end of the decade. easing will just exacerbate the process. funny money. look around, let's play monopoly.

ok thanks, missed that. looks like your true timeframe is "in between". seems you are pursuing much larger waves, but your entry/exits are short term perspective. looks like your channel system often cannot handle a level of fib retrace and you're shaken in that in the "tweener" zone. this...

what happened to your ym short? still on? or we supposed to guess.

btw, the market is going to collapse and trend down for a while.

knowing this or arguing over semantics doesn't make you money in the markets

excellent post. deploy the appropriate system to the season.

i think what he is trying to say is that capitalism is a double edged sword.

interesting lessons learned on this thread. how 2 people could have same call and same capital to trade but one makes 5x more. executions trumps calls. all bout the entry/exit point.

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i wouldn't write off the entire industry. there are large redemptions out of market neutral quant funds. opens a door to other funds, ie short biased, multistrategy, etc. one door closes, another opens.

find a prime broker to execute your trades, (there are miniprimes out there for $5MM accounts who clear at the big broker dealers, ie Goldman, BAC, Bear, ML etc..) use an affordable lawyer to do your operating and investment management agreements. you don't need to pay 50k with a big name...

Any coincidence that wall street related films always coincide with a market crash?

someone wins the lottery every week. the seemingly impossible always happens. problem with markets is that the hit becomes systemic and trickles down to everything/everyone. a "plague phenomenon"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOPR "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

but isn't it statistics that reamed the financial markets in last month because they could not forsee the black swan.