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    Floored

    He probably had to run to the john and sniff his $10 line of coke.
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    The Crippling Price of Public Employee Unions

    In places like Canada, there are so many Gov't workers that they design the Voting campaigns around having those Gov't workers vote for them.... Kinda like drinking where you're pissing, imo...
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    Masses expect inflation, masses are always wrong = deflation coming?

    nutmeg - great article link thanks.
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    Floored

    People with real talent don't hate the people they compete against... They would burn out before they ever got really good. These characters are likely what you would find at an AA or NA meeting....
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    Masses expect inflation, masses are always wrong = deflation coming?

    It looks like inflation but it tastes like deflation....
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    Floored

    As if the guys on here aren't just alcoholics or worse.... There were only a few people of interest in the movie... the rest are like coffee shop nut cases or the equivalent of call center propagandists. It's like they took away the free bananas at the zoo and these Monkey's can't figure...
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    in nyc trying to begin my career any ideas!?

    Ya... excellent spelling.
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    Is it a Boom or Inflation, Meltup

    What is surprising is how many hits this video has... 125,000.
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    Risk models and strategy...

    Risk is the following: *Position Sizing *Portfolio Allocation *Risk may specify a Type of Asset versus another specific type of asset *Duration of risk aversion can be specified Trading Strategies define the behavior of the underlying asset or instrument your risk technique has...
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    What is the reason for IB to be trading?

    Maybe they were executing your order??
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    Altucher- Bears ae dead wrong, S&P to 1300 in 2010

    Huh, are you Altucher's fluffer?
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    Depression II

    I get David Rosenberg's letter (former chief economist at Merrill Lynch who warned of the Credit Crisis back in 2006 I believe) and he wrote in yesterday's posting that we are in fact in a depression. If I recall, the textbook definition of a depression is 3 consecutive quarters of declining...
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    How to analyze and evaluate momentum strategies?

    Sugoi- 2 ways you can do it, and they are not exclusive, they can also be combined... Position Size by volatility (i.e determine the current risk in a position by way of standard deviation, ATR, or some other metric) Position Size by the quality of the signal (come up with a method that...
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    are lawyers contributing to US economic woes?

    Seems like personal bankruptcy law is the booming business in the states right now.
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    Scum at exchanges say, "blow it out yer ..." if you don't like it

    What is it called when you send money from one person to another, and leave 60% for them? Dry Cleaning
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    How do you construct a portfolio of trading strategies, instead of securities?

    Maybe you can create an allocation algorithm for the strategies.... Like an overlay... If Strategy X and Strategy Y are at Max or Worst profit levels, switch to strategy Z.... So its a kind of regime shift, or a position size allocation shift... This kind of trading could propagate...
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    Extremely Intresting Market Still Ahead: We Are At A Crossroad

    It's definitely been an inconvenient truth. What about the over leveraged carry traders, daytraders trading 50 lots.... the prop shops, the Margin calls, the Market Makers... surely someone went bankrupt?
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    If your trading strategy and back-test rely on time, is that fishy?

    It makes good sense to trade by time analysis.... for liquidations, entries, exits.. Sometimes, time is an indicator before price.... Especially when you combine strategies or events.... At a high frequency, sometimes time is your only indicator/tool to trigger the next trading...
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    Hi-ho SILVER...Away!!!!!

    true range - great point! Cash is an asset class.... as long as 1 or more asset classes is deflating/inflating, there are always good opportunities to participate in whatever trades you want - for liquidity, value, volatility, yield, growth..... Gold is like wearing bowling shoes. You need...
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    Europe Position(s)

    I spent that much on Dinner today. It was a cheap restaurant. The funny thing is that it was a Greek Restaurant. OPA!
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