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Well, I read David Rosenberg everyday.. But really its been like preaching Christianity to Atheists... or Celibacy to Ravers... its been a hard time for his particular intellect during this bear Market rally. Its been the same thing for Don Coxe as well. Its an environment where the truth is...

What she lacks in Smarts, she makes up in Looks... Take a look http://blackandwhiteprogram.com/wp-content/christina-romer.jpg

http://www.castrader.com/2006/11/universal_portf.html I'm pretty sure its impossible except in a perfect world... You would need a switching algorithm that would detect the best position size, entry / exit, position, stops, scalability and the appropriate hedge for the position given...

Add some code- good thread though

You need two books: Merger Arbitrage - Thomas Kirchner http://www.amazon.com/Merger-Arbitrage-Profit-Event-Driven-Finance/dp/0470371978/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263257021&sr=1-1 Risk Arbitrage - Guy Wyser Pratt...

The problem here is not something Karl Popper would let you slay easily, I would hope. Economics is a science of multi-level variables - supply, demand, in the simplest sense, but also political, sociological, and debt/monetary variables that operate through time. So all of these variables...

A good trader should be able to create their own sense of economics- through viewing order flow, liquidity, sector rotation, trading regimes in various asset classes... etc The fact that most of them don't have this sense well developed is probably why most fail in the long run. A well...

A good money manager is like buying a good franchise. It does the work for you.

winston - does r have any packages to trade thru a broker API? Thanks

Thats very true in my experience. It would be like designing the assembly line before designing the car...

But if you follow the logic, not that I'm sympathetic to anyone here.. but how are any of these daytrading shops making money if an algo is coming in and beating them - they are toast. Bye Bye Swift, Bright, etc.... That aside, is anyone else in the daytrading area losing their profitability...

I`m pretty sure that I read back in October that Red Kite (biggest metals hedge fund with the biggest copper trader in the world) is giving a dim forecast of copper and it sounds like they are short and plan to be for a while.. at least a few years.

is the Market a slaughterhouse ? :)

PM - If you want, I will send "you're broke because you want to be" by Winget.

So how do you make money on the average option screen trade that you do - buy volatility?

30 days short interest... notice how none of the reputable biotech funds own it. Where is SAC, Perceptive, Visum, Healthcor, Sectoral.. etc... It's a POS

How many people were panning for gold in the 1850s? Maybe Bernanke can bury money deep in the hills of California and start a boom in paper money miners...

If they gave $80,000 to every small business to enable productivity growth through new technology, training, or better marketing and enable them to hire an employee or two.... that would probably be smarter.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fund-flows-firm-suggests-government-bought-stocks-2010-01-05 Article says that there is significant evidence suggesting the US propped up equity Markets this year with money meant specifically for the Markets.

risk has always been a four letter word...