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"banking system is possibly the most successful ever created in privatizing gains and socializing losses" since maybe 0.1% of the population realise this AND we have a democracy, it won't end anytime soon...

Turok, Please explain us, why there are sophisticated operations of controlled demolition undertaken in the world, when you can have exactly the same effect by lighting some fire and adding jet fuel on few floors in a very large building? It will cost probably about 100 times less than...

hell, this one sentence alone is enough for a 100% proof... brilliant Hydro!

Fantastic collection of almost 300 dance songs from the 80s http://www.imeem.com/ozenji/playlist/W5n-DDeu/retro_dj_80s_90s_ii_disco_dance_remix_pop_music_p/ you need to sign up brings the memories back :cool:

Quantitative Investment Management which has a great track record is doing exactly the opposite of what you're saying. See my thread http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115513& Also there's a superb article by Nassim Taleb which nails the issue...

excellent point!!!!

how on earth diversification reduces reward? example: instead of single system with sharpe 1 and 200k allocated to it, we use 2 non-corr systems each with sharpe 1 and we allocate 100k for each, total 200k. returns are the same, but the volatility of returns is lower

very good observation, lindq! i've never seen a woman who is able to save any money... the root of american debt problems is how american women deal with financial matters and how they influence men.

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Anyone knows Rentec's Medallion fund figures for the last 3-9 months? I guess they should be very good due to recent volatility levels.

i think we're at the beginning of the Fed's end of existance

good idea you forgot to mention poland. polish zloty = strongest currency in the world, see: AUDPLN http://stooq.com/q/?s=audpln&c=5y&t=l&a=lg&b=0 CHFPLN http://stooq.com/q/?s=chfpln&c=5y&t=l&a=lg&b=0 EURPLN http://stooq.com/q/?s=eurpln&c=5y&t=l&a=lg&b=0

good points. i'd say the fundamental reason behind america's being underwater sinking in debt are deep changes in society, particularly women... over the last decades "honey, buy me a dress, honey buy me this lovely pink convertible, honey we need bigger house, my stuff doesn't fit in the...

true...

IMHO, we can't deal with the optimization problem apart from other system development issues. It's a complex thing, where "black or white" answers rarely can be given. However, there's a very simple way to completely avoid optimization: just put some random rules and parameters into a system...

speaking of florida real estate... and probably many other nice places in U.S. it's so dirty cheap comparing to europe or my place - warsaw, poland. currently i live in a 40 sq. meter apartment which costs about the same as 150 sq. m home in Florida! cars can be bought half a price vs poland...

this reminds me the article: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/08/the-law-of-attraction/ btw, there many excellent thoughts on his website

just tried to visit aaron's website. "officially" it's in the update process up to Feb 15th... i remember that his returns seemed to be neg. correlated with the strength of the trends. and that suggests counter-trend systems, which typically require wide stops. in strongly trending...

bad start of the year for the firm, down over 7% through 25th January.