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Re-think the idea of Member's Status. I propose to give: Junior Status if # posts >30 and member is registered for >1 month and average post quality >3 (1-10 scale) Senior if # posts >100 and registered >3 months and av post quality >5 Elite if # posts >500 and registered >1 year...

My 2 cents: Number of posts shouldn't be showed under the poster's nickname. Include it only in "Member's Profile" page. With detailed statistics: how many posts and % of all were written in each section (trading, retail firms (def), journals (don), chit-chat etc.). Instead of most active...

Where you here that?? :confused: Scares me!

Once again I'll refer to http://www.managedinvestments.com/performance.html 12-year Managed Futures data. These funds made ~ 900% on average in this period. That's +1.6% /month. What's the possibility of having substantial monthly drawdown with a portfolio of 30 funds? - each one makes +1.6%...

I would also be very suprised! :D :) :D :) The question is if all traders were woman, would the market move in perfect cycles? :confused:

daniel, I don't have access to a large CTAs & Hedge Funds databases. 13 year performance comparison: http://www.managedinvestments.com/performance.html Since these are averages, some managers were doing much better.

look at this one http://www.iasg.com/SnapshotPT.asp?ID=501

You know, there are 3 kinds of lies:, lies, damned lies and statistics. vladiator will tell you something like: "there're no proofs that market is not efficient" :D

Acceptable Max DD? Hmmm these guys don't have such problems... http://www.iasg.com/SnapshotPT.asp?ID=156 After 54 months of trading, no monthly drawdown. :eek:

def I know from others that when you have to close a position via telephone (b/c internet connection gone down, TWS disconnected or there's no power supply) - no one picks up the phone, or you have to wait a long period of time. Employ more people for customer support = more costs = higher...

Chris, look at his signature: "Trader963 (Phil McCracken) This market.... is going to zero." I guess he already knows what the best trading system is... market prices --> 0; begin IF market price > 0; THEN sell short ; IF market price = (0 +1 tick); THEN cover at limit (0 + 1...

To SEC, socialists, governments all over the world: <font color=red>"The greater the number of laws and restrictions, the poorer the people who inhabit the land" </font> - Tao Te Ching <font size=1> Stan Rosenthal's translation </font>

Read "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration Of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism" by Fritjof Capra, great book. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570625190/qid=1044722842/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-5215809-5859864?v=glance&s=books...

"My life's purpose is to work as a pilot..."

Very well said, jem. Why not expand EMH to corporations? Let's calculate average ROE for all publicly traded companies in the world over the last 80 years and call it a benchmark. Now, let's say to CFOs: c'mon stop dreaming, market is efficient, your company can't do better than that! :D...

This is also exactly how the whole corporate world operates...

One more thing: it doesn't look good (on a fund website for example) when fund manager has finished high school only! :) For marketing purposes and fund image - MBA, PhD or some famous University Degree is some sort of guarantee that manager knows what he's doing. Yeah you can give LTCM...

Aphie, I understand that. But O777 said, "the Creator existed". Please define term 'to exist'. Existence requires some sort of motion... some dualism - there must be at least two different 'things' in order to see that one of them exists (at least from our point of view). Yes, we're all limited...

OK, the Creator existed eternally. And suddenly, for something completly different, he decided to create Universe. What he was doing before the creation act? I guess he was bored... (probably he traded with FPC :D )