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    Building metal inventories illegal?

    You have to wonder about the country when Russia locks out russian speaking american hedge fund managers from the country. hermitage capital is a case on point
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    Building metal inventories illegal?

    Volker bailed them out somewhat, otherwise they'd have negative net worth http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_04/laborde012704.html
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    AMIBROKER symbology for nasdaq?

    ask marcin or thomasz
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    trend following delusion shattered

    I own aronsons new book, and I have to agree with Prof. The only irony is that its still better than 90% of whats out there. The fact that its being promoted as giving results to over 6400 binary buy sell rules is a joke, because he spends no more than a chapter on describing the rules he...
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    trend following delusion shattered

    Market its another losing system. Buying a ten day low resulted in the attached losing system for buying 10 day lows L < Ref(LLV(L,10),-1); Buying 10 day highs was a loser too.
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    trend following delusion shattered

    Marketsurfer, Intuitively you may think buying bottoms works because you tried it in 2002, but its a losing method. I can show this to you with a backtest, but define first what bottom it is you buy. Is it a 50, 100, 200 , 255 day bottom?
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    trend following delusion shattered

    excellent illiquid its like what karl popper spent his life on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability Falsifiable does not mean false. For a proposition to be falsifiable, it must be possible, at least in principle, to make an observation that would show the proposition to fall...
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    trend following delusion shattered

    Well there is mean reversion too. Not meaning to play devilas advocate however.
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    How to Compute the Percentage Return on a Leveraged Futures Trade?

    % return on an individual trade: outlayed capital = # contracts * margin gain or loss = (point value * # contracts * + or - point change ) -(slippage + commission) % return = (+- loss or gain ) / outlayed capital *100 Its probably better to put your return in terms of your total...
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    Stock Symbols that are Actual English Language Words

    in Canada, you can roll up the RIM to win
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    Jobs in Sydney, Australia for US citizens?

    doesnt susquehanna have offices in sydney?
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    Trading longer time frames

    steen your new book rocks! Ill get right to posting on amazon.
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    Did another hedge fund blow up??

    It was probably one of those paintings he bought causing a drop in the dollar...
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    3:1 risk / reward. How do you personally use stops

    use volatility stops
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    Althucher guesses: trend funds to disappear within the next 10 years...

    read up on william eckhardt and youll find he doesnt use moving averages or breakout to determine trend.
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    Althucher guesses: trend funds to disappear within the next 10 years...

    Seykota has mentioned that you dont find trends, you ride the bucking bronco.
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    leveraged trading

    yes
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    leveraged trading

    1% risk on underlying capital is $100 if you have $10k. Dont use leverage to increase your risk, use it to diversify. I wouldnt go and start trading contracts you cant afford with the 10k with the 50k leverage. Use something like this: Position Size = (1% of Equity) *...
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    "Low maintenance" position trading

    lescarbeau maybe.
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    Amazing system but what to do?

    look into rickey cheung
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