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that's no recovery- it is our last industry once the government destroys healthcare-- i guess it really will be back to the farm

i concur

"I don't have a very high opinion of Mr. Obama," Faber told "Squawk Box Europe." "I was negative of Mr. Bush but I think Mr. Obama makes him look like a genius."

spread trading is simply scalping spreads- try and convert your strategy if you already have a winning one

http://dailyreckoning.com/mandatory-retirement-bonds-more-reason-to-be-concerned-about-your-ira-and-401k/ foreign financing isn't an issue if we follow argentina

think of it this way, every time you do something with real money the market reacts to you- backtesting does not give you any information about how your actions could have changed the market- as much as everyone says billions of dollars get traded each day, maybe 80% of that is market maker...

1.61x means i average making 1.61 units per month of whatever i'm betting. ie- if i trade with a 4% of my account puke / day, then i'm averaging about 6.4% / month. can't really compare my simple annual rate of return because at times i ramp up my leverage so much during hot streaks so as to...

http://dailyreckoning.com/mandatory-retirement-bonds-more-reason-to-be-concerned-about-your-ira-and-401k/ mandatory 401k bond purchases, government will force holders of 401k to own treasuries and we will magically solve our reliance on foreign money to finance our debt. turns our decline...

well my largest historical drawdown is -7x but i'm not just using that as my bankroll, gotta be a bit safer than that

i trade value at risk - risk management and if you refer to the first post you'll see the question i'm asking.

not anti-semetic anti-victimage in todays day in age no one will accept responsibility for anything. everyone's struggles can be explained away by some ridiculous boogie man no matter how far away or long ago. no one is a victim today, and no one should feel the need to care for lazy...

it was just a continuation of war crime repayment- i've been saying for a long time germany should leave those freeloaders- just look how much france still gets in farm subsidies from them. grow up- no one that matters can still remember ww2 or slavery, no one owes the victims anything.

neither of those petrtain to my question- but i trade yield curve

i was analyzing my track record in trading and trying to figure out what amount of leverage i should be using, so i started to do some statistics on my track record, but i was never so hot with confidence intervals. what i'm wondering is if you could help me figure out X- what % of my account...

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that's why you put it with 10 dif people, so that worst case scenario you are out 20-30% if 2-3 are schemes. but it is far from the norm to lose your money due to fraud- i wouldn't worry too much about the 17 people on tv who had all their money with madoff, that was irresponsible investing on...

i know my firms website said we were at our old office a full 3 years after we moved, so i don't think it necessarily takes too much away- depends on how much you think they really care what others know about them- we always preferred people knew less about us.

my dad once used the argument to me- i can work my ass off all year following every piece of detail i can to hopefully make 10%, or i can pay a professional 1% to hopefully make 11% while i sleep easy.

hopefully some form of government spending is reigned in at some point in the future, new york would be a lovely place to start.

i'm not sure what a good way to ever measure this stuff is as return on account isn't really that good of a percentage because if you are trading futures you don't really need much in your account so that % can easily be out of context. i guess return on total capital you'd consider "at risk"...