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I find that when someone else is judging your success or failure, you never win. I dropped out of comp sci, and people say, so you have no paper. Then I see people who take up $75,000 of debt to get a liberal arts degree, and people tell me, thats what education costs. I made my decisions...

The idea here is that there can be another consuming middle class somewhere on earth, with the associated class of growth, stable interest rate and stable gains in productivity which suits the environment of growing stock markets... Whether thats even possible, at a political level...

Ya, now we have to deal with the side effects of breathing nitrous oxide for the past 10 years...

I have it for a manufacturing business. I think its through southwest insurance... Can get expensive if your get bigger. Might try purchasing it through a money managers association or something similar..

Its funny that this is all being talked about in 2010... I was aware of it all in 2001, but there was no one discussing it back then.. I guess when everything has turned to shit, there is no one else to step in it... or something.. Kinda funny what kind of reality was taken for granted...

My father told me a story that in the soviet union, the most highly paid guy was the bus driver, because he had to be the most reliable and get everyone there on time...

I dropped out of comp sci, I saw it coming in late 2001 and squeeze out a summer job at nokia that year. that was it. Then I realized it was screwed in comp sci land, and for the last 8 years its been manufacturing and technology associated with manufacturing. Some people got jobs in...

the1 - do you mean that the insurance aspect of the business is a sort of tax free investment plan for him, which allows some deals the average investing public wouldn't, and therefore, higher returns than most mutual funds over the years? Possibly meaning - that his grows his investments...

probably smarter to do it through friends and family like Interactive Brokers...

If you're managing peoples money in real life, you can't create any kind of "optimal" bet size that will slingshot you through a drawdown. As you increase the trading size, in general you water down the levels of absolute risk and positive risks associated with your edge, and you have to...

Bob is exactly right. It's very rare to find any good profitable ideas for trading say equities... PM Me for a list of good books on systems trading, I have a list of the better ones. Their are only a few authors that you can find out there with good ideas, and occasionally a reliable...

I guess all the liquidity has gone to chinese real estate

You're missing that 90% of all options experience worthless.

IMO, Don't trade thru amibroker to run your strategy while connecting to an API. I had shiedsys ( I believe they've close since then) do it 3 years ago, but it looks like a scary piece of code unless you were sitting by your pc. The system was connecting to IB. I would just find a ATS...

jimbo, which programs do you use?

I just wonder if they pay out to offshore providers before they go boom. In that case, the sec is just setting up the funeral, and the folks have already collected the insurance.

How complex are the stops and position sizing? I can do pretty basic stuff, but I used to have to get kaveman in Australia to do advanced stops...but i dont see his website anymore.

I've got a bunch. I'll send them to you.

I've got a bunch. I'll send them to you.

buy n hold = betting on hindsight