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Hes right - the company is a joke. The sales and tech support back in '99-2001 were outsourced to a Canadian company. I imagine since then that its moved on to India. We used to sell the service before it was even available in the customers area. Happened at least 4-6 times a day on sales I...

excellent post- i own the book too. I hope Das keeps publishing- I am thinking of buying his other book on Derivatives but I'm worried it will be too academic. But Traders Guns and Money is a great read. I think you have a very good point about a treasury and CDS connection. It explains alot...

i've used openoffice. Its decent considering its free, but not as clean looking as MS office. Up here in Canada they have $50 deals on MS office right now for home and students at bestbuy and futureshop. Good deal - its the full version and good for 3 users.

ouch. This is a stock- you would never pay to be short, its not a bond. You can short a stock to zero... bankruptcy... I would spend about 30-50 bucks on books that discuss shorting. http://www.amazon.com/Sell-Short-Wiley-Trading/dp/0470181672 I don't own it but it has a good...

a couple of great macro traders have philosophy degress- Soros, Thiel, probably others. Surprised no one has mentioned a book that applies these concepts to various Markets- Woody Dorsey's "Behavorial Trading"...

Pretty much anytime you lower rates to 0% you've nationalized the savings of the country. Now you need to be more than a millionaire to live on short term securities.

Don't mess with zee Zohan

Nobody uses Powerpoint anymore I hope :)

Check out Woody Dorsey, he would agree to an extent. http://www.amazon.com/Behavioral-Trading-Measuring-Confidence-Expectations/dp/product-description/1587991640 It might be more accurate to say that price is a dictation of the herd and those against the herd.

someone needs a good dose of ayn rand. And if you are alternatively, so righteous - remember that some investors are very philanthropic. Its usually low to middle class worker types that are jaded about the prospects and applications of wealth.

I wonder what their their sharpe ratio was :)

buying 52 week highs in equities worked better than the markets for at least 25 years- recently its been performing similar to the market

what about the bubble in treasuries- what did Taleb have to say about that?

might want to look into codewords and keywords that politicians use for inflation. But this is fun to play with - the interactive graph at the bottom. http://www.whitenova.com/thinkEconomics/simul.html

the guy who started the thread- check out this site for charts of annual returns of trend traders and their AUM's: www.iasg.com you will find results for the good trend followers- Winton, Rabar, Eckhardt, Abraham.... http://www.iasg.com/tabid/56/default.aspx?programid=156...

-Short Sotheby's, its down pretty big but what the hell.

is jamesvu aka james altucher?

I've backtested those kinds of things - not as easy as it sounds to make money from it as a "strategy". The easiest way is to take the # of highs versus lows, or versus an average and attempt to generate a buy/sell signal - usually just for the long side of a buy/sell signal. The other...

The smart ones won't go to college- they'll get into apprenticeships.

they can't lower rates anymore so now they need to pimp the bond market.