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And people wonder why ET is dying. At least try to be funny.

Maybe you can say more about the feast and the famine. What accounted for the famine? Or the feast?

It's happened to everybody at some point . . . not really trying very hard if you haven't been there

are there any software systems that track weekly volume? for instance I'd like to find "doji + elevated weekly volume" I'm not familiar with things like Metatrader or Ninja, but maybe somebody knows. None of the public chart sites track weekly volume.

Based on the last few years of trading, he should be kept away from a computer and have his passwords changed. Just kidding. You can always make it back in a few well-chosen trades.

Lost $8300 in stock and gained $5700 in options. Clearly, the solution is to stick with options.

Looks like a nice h&s formation plus an island bottom.

Wouldn't the most important be the easiest to test? If it takes a large drawdown before you know the strategy works, then you'll never know if the strategy works. So it has to be a strategy that can be tested quickly & cheaply. That would rule out everything but profit factor.

I've wondered if market orders get priority to limit orders, or if they're treated the same. And will the exchange/specialist/whatever ignore a market order if the offers are too far from the last trade or prior close? I've put in a few market or above offer orders and not been filled. This...

arbitrageurs. picking up a nickle ahead of the close of the buyout. final $13.88 price.

There is no psychology, only how you respond to the market. That's why you need to think about your behavior within the ecology of the market. Deep, right? That's why I recommend The Art of Contrary Thinking, by Neill.

not bullion. owning bullion (the gold bricks) was illegal until 74. coins were still legal.

In one sense, you're right. A bond holder who held from 1962 to 1982 got annihilated. The long term trend isn't much of a consolation when you're getting annihilated by inflation. It's a bit like saying that nuclear power is a great technology most of the time. But I still think you're...

The US didn't go off gold standard in WWI, but Europe did, and the Fed raised the price level. Here is how Mundell describes it: World War I made gold unstable. The instability began when deficit spending pushed the European belligerents off the gold standard, and gold came to the United...

This says it all, really. Like I said, you only go off the gold standard once. http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4fef040eeab8ea3535000001-622-327/us-treasury-yields-since-1800-all-time-low.png

Right, of course there is inflation, but almost always due to war. The norm is deflation, just as war is the exception. And the peaceful, deflationary regimes can last a very long time, eg from Napoleon to WWI. We currently live in the middle of a long, peacetime deflation. You can shout your...

Smaller countries obviously have different dynamics. I think there is something called the Mundell trilemma, basically a country has to choose control of either monetary, exchange rate, or capital markets flows, but can't choose all three. So small countries, with debt denominated in a foreign...

If inflation is "by definition" a "monetary" phenomenon, then what are these "other forces" you're talking about? I thought we had defined those out of the equation.

Horejsi bought shares in a poorly performing closed end fund, got enough shares to mount a proxy fight and take it over, then milked the fund dry with high fees and a complicated tax scheme that was later shut down by the IRS, but did boost assets for a number of years. So this isn't really a...

Looks like the IMF has been reading my posts on ET. It too now seems to agree that low inflation is a function of an aging population. Old people just don't go out and form households, buy cars, take out mortgages, etc etc. no matter the interest rate...