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There was actually a hedge fund manager interviewed in the Economist who said he could trade from a prison with just a copy of the Economist. Forget who it was...

look for David Druz and Ed Seykota's articles. Thats all there is. The only other option is finding some really good delta neutral model... to gain leverage.

Must be the reincarnation of Patrick Bateman...

WSJ and Barrons Customer Service Dept. is a total joke. Try getting your online version ( a total mistake ) delivered to your door.....

does it have to be real-time of EOD? http://www.endofday.com/ for TSX and TSX Venture EOD data. Very clean data.

There was something I noticed between the 8/15 13F filing for Tudor and the November filing. The assets listed had fallen by $10 billion... could be a typo. Any ideas?

something about senator dingbat

No one is mentioning Etrade Canada ??

More like keep shorting NT and go Long NOK

Portfolio123.com Free backtested fundamentally driven systems. -IMO, all are likely overoptimized and focused excessively on small porfolio sizes (under 100k) low and liquidity in the positions. Sharpe ratios all look good on the big winners, but I think if you want to make a career from...

Just read a book about a guy with Aspergers that could see numbers and multiply numbers up to 23 digits in a his head and give you an answer in 2 seconds. He also went to Iceland and learned the language in a week.... I think the most common trait in mediocre people is that they can't face that...

Lets all quit trading and have a Taleb coffeehouse nite at the local Starbucks every Tuesday nite. That ought to render all things invariant.

Yup, its like saying rich people have long index fingers... some kind of absurd 1800s line of thinking.

Thats a good point - distance from wall street. Can anyone copy in the FT article. (I should probably subscribe, not sure what it costs) I own all of Talebs books and his assumptions regarding trading are absurd. Anyonne who ever thought a single thought about something like cognitive...

I think its like 1% is INTJ. I'm one.

I've heard it called volatility pumping before. But it was always in reference to Cover's universal portfolio - never in terms of creating volatility to knock out others positions and to facilitate new positions for the fund.

Isn't that just a basic running stops strategy?

I'm not sure. January or February I think. I don't recall any global macro. As well, my local library carries it. You might look there ( I am in Niagara, Ontario Canada)

My father gets it. Mostly useless stuff. It's very fundamental and aside from one of the Sprott people writing, none of the info is what I'd call executable.... And he only gets his subscription when the price is like 70% off - they do that once a year or so.

Sprott fund in Canada charges redemption fees to avoid churning by 2001 - style Market timers. If you pull out your cash within 6 months I believe, they charge you a 2-4% management fee. Its there policy, but if you are generating 27% for the past 10 years, I think its justifiable.