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Enthralling video. I am going to watch it again. The contrasts between what the experienced trader was saying and what the academics were doing was great. LTCM doubled their margin because they were not as profitable one year, not a good thing to do, not even a rational thing to do. Of...

That is straight out of the Art of War. The author there said to not put too much responsibility on any one soldier, to instead give each one just a small responsibility and make sure he knows how to perform it.

Privacy is a modern thing actually, and still largely an illusion. People in tribes in a jungle might go their entire lives with very litlle privacy, in Japan you can talk in a certain way and what is overheard from you will be treated as private, in the middle ages people in Europe went their...

It's these freaking people that actually know something, they never fight with you. Dang.

I, ... I am just laughing so hard!! What are you taking about if I might ask?? Is your technology letting you down at the restaurant?? I have to know, ok?? It's just my undying curiosity that keeps me here at all.

By some definitions sector rotation is what you are talking about. Sometimes people get the sector with the best RSI and pick the two or three constituent stocks with the best RSI. There was a sector rotation fund, I cannot think of the name of the company that had it, that did 23% a year...

I think Israel has the firepower. I doubt if they want to use it all at once since every one of their neighbors are bloodthirsty loonies that have a history of trying to kill them off. If there is any one bunch of people in this world that I will never feel sorry for it is the Palestinians...

Howard Dean and Hillary ars soooo going for the center. Their own party won't let them in the primary if they keep it up.

A used car salesman friend of mine told me they use a cloth thing that people use in their clothes dryers to get a good smell into the tobacco smelling clothing. He said they would tuck it away somewhere in the car and the cars would always smell good. There are household products like...

We really only need to go to the consumption tax. When voters realize that what they vote for costs them money they will shrink the government by 90% and it won't matter which party is in power.

I do recall that somebody offers synthetic data for sale but unfortunately it was years back and I have no clue who it was. I just googled on "synthetic stock data" and got not much. Maybe it was Mark Jurik at Jurik research?

I am fast becoming a trader as my overspending habits are converging on wage attachment by lenders. WIN stands for Work is Nonprofit.

Bird flu hits, you just migrate home and enjoy the great indoors for 6 weeks. You have internet, movies on demand, satellite TV, I don't see it as a huge problem on a personal level. Who cares what the Fed does as long as they don't bring the flu to my house.

I have found it quite difficult to take a fairly simple pattern [that I can identify instantly by looking at a chart] and put it in terms a computer can understand. I can look at a certain pattern where volatility is increasing and the price is dropping and mentally I say "mudslide" because I...

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I want 5% a day. I have been working on that for a long, long time. I am working on my second million because I had to give up on the first one. After 22 years of education [I graduated the 11th grade twice] I think I can do it. Well, maybe I can't do it, I would be tremendously busy and I make...

I am looking for a basement window to leap out of as we speak.

If you trade at the infrequent rate you say you do it seems like you could do your job without even thinking about the trading. I don't see much conflict. That sort of puts the answer on the "keep the dang job" side. What would you be doing with your time if you were not working? Some people...

I was gong to say the same thing. This is not on topic, the guys newsletter probably was sucker bait, but people that think the argument is "science vs religion" are very, very rigid in that wiewpoint, it is "science as fantasized by scientists" vs "science that fits the Genesis story" if you...

Usted is un marioletto?? I remember the days, lowered limousines in Southern California with Florida license plates. Nobody messed, at all. I did not even look in the direction and think "mess". Mariolettos did not ever do the risk/reward calculation, they were just the baddest.