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    Why Can't I Trade with the Trend

    Many, i think most the vast majority, who make this complaint of not being able to get on the trend confuse hindsight with what they could have known or seen at the time. If u look at the class of events rather than that "market that got away" u find that by and large hopping on the rend...
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    Can money management alone create any edge?

    The notiion random entries can be profitable with Exits is a load of backtesting circle jerk bunk. You are just playing with numbers and the past. tharp was quite frankly a fool when he said this. Yes if u are using a data set like net stocks in 99 almost any hairbrained idea that...
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    Can money management alone create any edge?

    I remember 8 years ago when i first started learning about trading. My god, the trading books are hidious and so filled with detremental information, If anyone asks me i tell them to forget learning via books exept perhaps 3 or so exeptions. One of the myths that is so hurful to the novice...
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    Can money management alone create any edge?

    Jesus some of you are quite retarded about this. No money management can't make an edge. Sad how brokerages lie and spread these myths for sheep to follow.
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    American Express fin. advisor good or bad start?

    If you want to get a cfa, that is a totally different track unless you plan on making a career change in the future. "financial advising" is by and large not what it is cracked up to be. A better idea might be to get with a company that has a good in house managed funds dept. Like maybe...
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    Back Testing

    haha, yea, get yahoo data by hand! certainly that would take forever. no no, u can download as much as u want right from the finance page right into spreadsheet form. i think they call it historical quotes. just pick the dates u want the security and go.
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    Consistently Profitable Day Traders

    opinion you can find the best most consistent edges over short durations of time. On the minus side, if u have no edge it is harder to "get lucky" because u have more cost and you are less likely to hit a blue moon trade that will "make" you, which is the reality of many traders...
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    Quadriga Superfund - Managed Futures

    typically, the funds do well with small capital, expand take on much capital, have huge draw down, big investor withdraws, then performance improves for a few years, investors pile in again, huge drawdowns, investors pull out, ect ect. Always behind the cycle.
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    Are there any Jim Rogers' fans here?

    he has had quite a life, i think many of us find inspiring. I even made a bundle off one of his stock picks when he was writing for worth magazine.
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    Can you think out of the box: show that Capitalism REQUIRES Socialism :D

    "Bad example. Physician scarcity exists to limit health care expenditures by govt. Once it was supposed that more physicians would mean more competition & lower prices. Didn't work out that way - health care costs skyrocketed. We now know that each physician, PA, NP is a cost center and creates...
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    I LOVE the HSI futs!

    Trying to pull up a chart on this market using ensign and the ib feed. Have not looked at it before. hsi h5-hkfe Is this the correct symbol for ensign/ib? It is not showing up.
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    The $6000 secret

    thread, is it not obvious that a huge horde of the retail trading crowd want to lose money?? THese chat room gurus just take advantage of that fact. U have to choose to be an idiot to be duped like that over and over again.
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    Need Help of a trading community.

    this chat room follow the guru sh*t is for LOSERS ONLY. Entirely against the whole ethic of what it takes to be successful. Some people want hope no matter how delusional, Some want to follow, and sometimes it seems that some people even want to be scammed. Chat room and all that is...
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    Pyramiding into a trend

    "one should allocate more capital to very good opportunities than to more marginal opportunities." yes this is a nice assumption. Can this situation be identified at the time or is this assumed as well. And how does this relate to the increased risk exposure or the risk of ruin, as...
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    Are there any Lady Traders on ET? How do you trade, what are your strategies?

    men or women have any advantage in trading. however perhaps, and this is a guess, testosterone causes men to seek out risk more actively, wich results in more traders. women, are more prone to being sensible and wanting a steady reward.
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    I will code your strategy

    Completely subjective and pointless comment. It really depends on what the trading strategy is. The needs of the strategy determine what technology is needed to implement.
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    Everyone is attacking Hedge Funds

    the problem is that the point of the article was not to inform or educate, but rather to titilate and create envy among the public. Which is bad for the industry as it will bring increased scrutiny and public cry for regulation which will stiffle one of the last bastions of nearly pure...
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    Everyone is attacking Hedge Funds

    unfortunate article
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    is futures prop BS??

    lots of usefull info. thanks guys.
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    is futures prop BS??

    Guys, pissing contests and insults, though amusing, are pointless. We are not little kids in the back of the station wagon, on a long car ride, hell bent to drive the parents insane. lets not forget that. Lets exchange information and be polite, there is room for difference of opinion...
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