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    Why is it so hard to beat the market?

    I do not trade OPM and I trade under NFA rule 208 part 1 in the reporting questionaire. Warren Buffet is severely restricted in his efforts, largely because of externalities. With such limitations he is unable to trade at an optimum level daily using an amount of capital that individual...
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    trend following delusion shattered

    Your guesser may be broken. If you were to want to know and if you were to want to make use of the knowledge to make money, then you would begin to move (grow in knowledge, skills and experience) from where you are to a better place. If you look at the posted chart on AKAM, you can see...
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    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    You pose two considerations. Both can be handled daily. I use a preflight check to deal with the beginning of the day. 32 brief considerations. So I will assume we are on the same footing. I use a DAS (Daily Analysis sheet) to review my planning. This corresponds to your list, I...
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    trend following delusion shattered

    Many many people are able.
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    Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of ET

    more.... Social business is important because it addresses very vital concerns of mankind. It can change the lives of the bottom 60 per cent of world population and help them to get out of poverty. Grameen's Social Business Even profit maximizing companies can be designed as social...
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    Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of ET

    more..... In a cumulative way the bank has given out loans totaling about US $ 6.0 billion. The repayment rate is 99%. Grameen Bank routinely makes profit. Financially, it is self-reliant and has not taken donor money since 1995. Deposits and own resources of Grameen Bank today amount to 143...
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    Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of ET

    Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Grameen Bank and I are deeply honoured to receive this most prestigious of awards. We are thrilled and overwhelmed by this honour. Since the Nobel Peace Prize was...
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    Will You Do Better In 2007 Than You Did In 2006?

    Yes, and I hope we all will.
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    Raising money for CTA --an idea

    What is the upper limit you plan to deal with?
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    Where Did You Find your Strategy?

    Looking at the EOD lists in WSJ. Plotting the HLC and volume on a hand made blank chart. Trading the natural cycle of price and volume. Compound interest formula says do brief cycles and make what is available. The strategy became: find stocks to make graphs for*. I just back plotted...
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    The market cannot defeat you

    Mythville.
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    Why is it so hard to beat the market?

    he's making 35% a year. He could shorten his trades from a year to a quarter and make 35%. 35% a quarter is 330% a year. Do you know how much profit a month (one trade a month) you have to make to make 35% a year. Tell us the PF if you can.
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    Employment Study from Johns Hopkins University (12/2006)

    We fit in that category and we are swinging staff from one location into the NFP organization we also run. Health care and health delivery is in deep do do . One thing that you do not recognize is that a lot (most) of LTC is done by NFP's simply because this is the home of last resort for...
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    Who's your trading idol?

    Essentially, Tesla. Someone gave me his bio which the author had autographed and given to testa's closest female friend. She had kept clippings about Tesla in it and had made notes along side some of the narrative stories. I loaned it out to a person and lost track of it. The way he...
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    Why is it so hard to beat the market?

    you are spending 40 hours per stock, you say. 10 to 15stock a year is so many hours I guessed 600/250 days a year is a couple of hours a day. for 40 minutes a night you can make 330% a year.
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    Why is it so hard to beat the market?

    stocktraderXXXX People trade at different performance levels. You put in a mnimum of 600 hours a year at this point. A few hours per business day. Were you getting much out of your efforts, you would be much further along. You are heavy into FA and that doesn't make much money...
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    series 6 exam/take a prep course?

    the best part about these classes are the tests you do in the evenings and the briefings during class afterwards. Taking the test is a breese. I sometimes attend along side of students that I need to put in place for some types of sales and planning stuff. Most instructors are not traders...
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    Why do losing traders always buy tops?

    Sorry, the term is probably too limited for searching under trading. Here are four starters for you: Velez, Shannon, Turner and Person. You will find that these guys are pushing the technique, in part, because it is easy and they are trying to "educate" primarily. Vendors pull people...
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    Why do losing traders always buy tops?

    It was a top when you bought it and you bought it because the formation showed it was gong to continue upward. Read up on how the strategy works; it is a good idea to be an informed trader.
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    Why do losing traders always buy tops?

    Look up clear air trading and you may see how people trading tops are very successful.
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