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Look at the HDI rank, which measures the quality of life in many countries http://www.webassistant.com/kp/upload/users/47036/hdilist2001.pdf Populations from top 20 countries except U.S. (#6), Ireland (#18) and Italy (#20) are the least religious in the world. Now take a look where...

Women are like markets - they're always right. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - they always want your money. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - the more you try to understand them, the more confused you'll be. Take them as they are. With or without logic.

You're so brilliant! LOL You won't attract many investors with 5% p.a. minus fees - only 2% net for investor. Try to make 15%/year with low drawdowns, then money will flow into your fund.

I open long position at 8:30 am after strong retail sales data @ 2241 in estxx futures. 9:50 strong Michigan Sentiment #... 2260... bamm! price slides, I've closed @ 2243 :mad: I have to focus on the longer time frames.

I agree. There're two guys, A and B. A is a trader with $30k acct. He makes 50% a year. That's $15k minus taxes, software fee ~$1,200/year. B let's say, he is a Index fund manager, top school graduate. In fact he is doing nothing and earns 200k/year. Fund is down 40% for the last 3 years...

mini NQ Swing_magic_2 , last year -115% ? :confused: nice system!

It wouldn't be good for us to know absolutely everything, to have an answer for every WHY? question. Same goes with predictability. The answers are not that important as the whole process/fun of finding them. There will be always something to discover... We will die, and the kids from the next...

Yeah, just academic & marketing crap. In general, as long as hedge funds will outperform S&P or bond yields, new money should continue to flow into these funds.

i vote for the 2nd option. sorry harry :p

More Homer quotes: ~I agree with you - in theory. In theory, communism works. ~Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~(Marge) - Homer please don't make me choose between my man and my God, because you just can't win. (Homer) - There you go again always taking...

daniel_m those quotes from famous people talking about religion are really great. Look what Homer Simpson has to say: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/homer.htm :D Frank Zappa: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/zappa.htm I disagree with your statement "Budha and...

Another new category: "eternally lucky funds which suddenly failed" :eek: ( Eifuku means "eternal luck" in Japanese )

Mixed reviews... surfer didn't report any TS crashes, many other TS customers report them frequently. def: TS to IB automation software can be a great concept, but I would need to open futures acct with TS, park $5,000 and pay $100/mo for platform fee or $200/mo without an brokerage acct...

alfonso, misunderstanding I wanted to say, that only math and statistics (from all scientific areas) are really useful in trading. Psychology also. Of course, math is the real science. Quantum physics and chaos theory may explain market's nature, hmm maybe they can give you some ideas which...

As always, excellent point Commisso. Sometimes I feel the only "science" useful in trading is some simple math and statistics + common sense.

Well, some funds operate for 20+ years... all comes down to risk management.

It can be a huge difference. Look at Dynex Corp: "Deepest Peak-to-Valley Drawdown (monthly data)" 35.79% "Deepest Peak-to-Valley Drawdown (daily data)" 63.40% http://www.dynexcorp.com/tetra10table.shtml

I disagree. Are you talking about financial markets only? Maybe all markets will be fully predictable? Perhaps you'll be able to predict your life! That would be so boooring, worst thing can ever happen!

Please explain, 100% predictable? Hmmm... Markets are predictable to some degree now, but fully predictable - that's impossible IMO. I think we shouldn't look at trading as a separate thing (science, physics and trading). Trading is closely connected with psychology, math, statistics...

ISM services today... 47.9 vs 52.5 expected, guess market reaction :confused: It's not sustainable IMHO but I could be wrong of course.