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I do every sort of RE deal except for get a single-family residential and get tenant for a 1 yr lease. This is akin to buying 1000 shares of IBM and getting rich from the 3 to 4% yield. There are much more interesting RE deals through Apartment investing using OPM (syndication), land deals and...

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Are you in the same city as me? Dallas area, rt? Aren't you seeing the rent rates go through the roof? There's a reason why there is lots of construction going on here. But, I'm realizing that I'm the bigger idiot. Come to a trading forum to talk about the magic of real estate, :)

I wasn't the OP Merely responded to the OP suggesting that once you make immense amount of wealth through trading, you diversify. By "de-correlate", i used it as a verb form to take asset classes and try to uncorrelate it from assets in the market.

If you're finding properties on MLS, that might be the wrong approach. There are other methods; tax liens, short sales, bank notes to get better discounts on properties. Also, helps that you are paying cash upfront, to squeeze an even better deal. I don't sign leases with regular tenants. I'll...

Sorry, You may be an actual RE investor. So you will get it! You're right! You cannot be overleveraged in all your assets. But lets say you have 1M RE portfolio and 1M trading portfolio. If you are 80% leveraged in your RE porfolio and maybe 40% leveraged (or 60% margin cushion) on your trading...

I rather be 80% leveraged in Real Estate than 80% leveraged on my trading account Those people who lost it all during the recession were not investors! They were speculators. They were buying 300k+ properties and getting 1500 to 2k in rent. My last property was purchased at 80k, valued at 140k...

Can you post the equity curve on this strategy? This is something I would like to incorporate and automate as well.

You're right! This is really an entertainment and random thoughts ranting board! OP asked for advise and I was pointing to the error of a dude who said he has'nt been successful and yet believes that trading is enough, :) Anyways, what am I doing wasting time here. NDX, SPX and RUT Vol is...

My portfolio pretty much quadrupled in the last 2 years, due to this raging bull-market. Yet I'm so fearful and know that this is not sustainable. Its just important to find more sustainable methods of investments. You claim that you're not successful, but there's so much hope in yourself that...

Who? me? Its stemming from the frustration that very few people have advise here. Or maybe the good guys don't participate any more? What happened to discussions on better risk control. De-Correlating asset classes. Hedging against risk of the various greeks?

As a full-time options trader, I have 9 sub accounts on my IB platform. I initially did this to better understand the performance of each of my different strategies and track the equity curve separately. This way, I could "reinvest" back into the appropriate account. Today, the strategy based...

Wow! This is really a bad site to get advise! Coming to conclusion very few folks actually trade and implement enough risk controls in their trading process. Seems like people are using small fraction of their money in trading. My friend, once an equities trader risks 70%+ of his net worth in...

From what i've observed and experienced. Trading gives you quick wealth. Lots of people I know made what they make in 2-3 years in this month alone (attended a trading group this weekend in Dallas) But once you make all that money, it's important to diversify into more reduced risk ventures...

I'm not really a professional. I posed a question on diversification to get feedback fron the group. My first real trade was in April-14th of 2016, where I sold a 2 day straddle on SPY and made $50. Regarding real estate, I had drinks last week with a 22 year old, who rents out couple of...

The question was posed not as an academic exercise. I'm far from being one. Interestingly, very little discussion about real-estate and other businesses as an asset class. I got into trading because I wanted to diversify from my real estate and business holdings. I put a third of my net worth...

I don't know @EsKiller, but I can tell you he's one of the few people on this forum who gets it. Most traders on this site is so enamored by getting their account to a certain size that they don't understand cash flow. They feel that once their account becomes 500k, or 1M or 5M or 10M, they...

I should've been more specific! I meant from a Risk/Reward perspective a strategy may work for a few months then its time to refresh. Right now, my focus is on NDX/SPX based insurance debit spreads that "decays" into small profit window. If you have a strategy that has been profitable since...

Ugh! You said it Need to unload 10k shares of MDLZ that were acquired for an average price of 44.8 and 1k shares of SPG, avg price of 200! Ouch!

I've removed the equity curve. But the "parabolic" returns came twice prior back in May and another spurt in November. On a log scale, this would just look more linear. Nope! risk has always been 30% to 40% margin cushion. Around 2% of PUT insurance. 70% equity and 30% option trading. If you...