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http://www.amazon.com/Bond-Market-Trading-Risk-Management/dp/1556232896 I just bought a used copy which I'm very happy with. Its from 1993, before daytrading was around though, but its still very useful. I bought this after spending alot of money on useless newer books that had zero...

Excellent post AustinP!

I guess we'll have to nationalize our hockey teams.

And the only way to burst that bubble is inflation :)

His wife is too tasty for a president's wife. Aren't they all supposed to look like Hilary Clinton?

The sharpe ratio itself is flawed. Thats a start. If people were actually trading appropriately, daytraders, option sellers, insurance writers... and so many hedge funds wouldn't exist in any kind of quantity like they have over the past 10 years. In Canada, like many financially...

You have to remember the average holding time here on ET is less than the average person takes to take a piss.... So what you often get is splashback, and nothing to take home .... Which describes the worth of people's "trader opinions" on here.

thing that surprises me YTD, none of the option sellers have crawled out from their rocks and collapsed yet.

cok guzel

of course your position sizing considers drawdowns. Its 2-3% of your current capital, not fixed capital.

the tiger isn't there either :)

if you only look at equities- you'd probably do just as well surfing the web on their free site, and paying their fee to a couple of different Market letters who have an edge...

international herald tribune isn't elitist.

he is suggesting that the Democrats when elected will limit the cost of expensive drugs like EPO, etc... that AMGN produces.

I should wait til at least wednesday morning to slyingly reply, shouldnt I?

I agree - this is a total joke and must be offensive to all global investors who undoubtedly now look down even more on the financial system. Anyone consider that the rats on the ship want a life boat or they might go public about anything that has gone down there if they don't get their...

Prophet- haha.. I remember paying for their data 4 years ago. I had to keep calling 3 or 4 times to cancel my data account. It just wouldn't cancel the 1st, 2nd or 3rd time... Granted the charts looked good, but I needed EOD data, not pretty online charts.

How many people with former Lehman accounts had this position on? No one has said how these trades are being unwound. Thats probably the center of the problem.

i thought he just put them on ice til the credit market thaws and equity market volatility calms down... So he physically laid them off?

Having read every single 13F and 13g filing that all the main funds and sub funds have produced (sec.gov edgar) - you'll note that their long side risk is so diversified that you wonder how they make those returns.... but my point is that if they are so diverse on the long side, you'd assume...