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What do you think is the probability of the down or up streak for N days? What do you think the market has realized since, say, 1950?

Easy! I have two strategies, Hindsight Trend Following and Hindsight Mean Reversion, both are doing great!

Yes, but what exactly is your expertise? For example, I know volatility trading and happy to discuss, as long as I am not giving away my alpha. Someone else here is a fixed income maven. There are people here who know programming, etc. What bits of wisdom do you really contribute? That question...

LOL I can see only one specific case where there is value to posting trade calls and discussing them here. That's some crowd-sourced form of activist investing - in that case, you'd post an idea (e.g. let's take a 5% stake in some small cap stock), present some form of justification/research...

Wait, I know your name! Shivi Ramoutar, I want to see more recipes here! It's been a while, but I have made your chili and cardamom truffles and it was a blast :) Seriously, I joined in 2003 too and I don't see that as any sort of success story (in fact, it's a testament to boredom and wasted...

Bear Stearns had a serious Bridge culture, Ace himself was a big player and a lot of senior MDs were too. You'd get pulled into a game of rubber if you happened to stay late and knew how to play. While wishing him well, I'd take his story with a big grain of salt. Unless he's been playing at...

Wouldn't there be a chicken-egg effect because you need experience to get a trading job and to get experience you need a trading job? This said, it's a paradox - I was looking for a junior recently and found that there are a lot of people who want that job, yet nobody I've spoken to would...

I have no clue where the market is going and I have yet to see anyone who has a market call that's evven close to statistically consistent. Yet I've been an profitable institutional trader for the past 20 years. Go figure. I have thought about the whole binary options thing and came to a...

Last few times i went on strict keto diet and it worked like magic. Doesn't mean it's best for my health long term, but it gets the job done.

Good call on the puts! You should be on MSNBC! On a serious note, I feel like we can use a little turmoil to return us to reality.

Maybe a separate section for small cap stocks/debt and related strategies? I think a lot of people here can and should consider looking at that part of the market for a competitive edge. Options trading section needs an FAQ/basics thread stuck at the top.

Why did we do it? :)

I don't get it, why are all these nutritionists lump all people into a single group? For example, I am 5'10', weighing 140 lbs at 8% body fat and I am trying to bring my weight down to mid 130s with 4-5% body fat (as I always do to peak for my climbing projects). How could any nutrition study...

And yet, with all that science, honest living depends primarily on my tax dollars. If the food startups can grow McNuggets and BigMacks in a vat at a fraction of cost, it's good business. PS. Dude, you sound like a bad salesman feeding me a line :|

I know you hate to hear this, but this is the future. Just like cars have replaced horses, it's inevitable that food production will be synthetic and agriculture will be a thing of the past. You can hate it, love it or invest in it.

It's certainly are my taxes that go into farm subsidies. I hate all forms of government hand overs - defense industry, farming subsidies, private jails or subsidized housing (defense tops my hate-list cause they use so many resources for very little benefit). So if synthetic food puts farmers...

There are two separate arguments - one is future of digital currency as a concept and another one is the future of bitcoin. I think an independent digital currency is inevitable, despite all of the efforts of various governments to stop it. At the moment bitcoin is the most likely one, simply...

So unlike most people who chimed in, I actually gone down the "high-end" institutional road and still plodding along. So I can share some first hand insight to complete the picture. First and foremost, decide if the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is worth the sacrifices you have to make...

You're saying it because you are not one of them. Everyone hates robber barons until they get a chance to become one. It's especially true in such a gray area as finance where various actions go from OK to crime based on some obscure decision or rule.

Make the full chain - synthetic meat and a burger-making machine. Obsolete both the farmers (and the farm subsidies in the process) and the people who cook them