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I think the forum is fine. However, somethings that may add a lot of value is a)adding a way to thank a poster, which would add to his reputation. Maybe something similar to bodypoints and RepPower on forums.bodybuilding.com. I think that would help users to judge the quality of a post...

Suppose you believed that a particular state was going through a rough patch, because of which its worth has been grossly undervalued. Or that the economy of a particular state is likely to boom in the coming years. How and using what instruments would you use to trade on this idea...

Hii.. I wonder if there is any known trend in which the different sectors grow in a developing economy. For example China is supposed to grow rapidly in the next decade or so.. What sectors are likely to grow fastest? I would think that not all sectors would would grow at the same pace...

I tend to go through the weekly issues of the IBD one at a time every weekend, without looking at the later issues. This helps me see whether my predictions have are correct or not. Last weekend I couldnt do any,so I tried to catch up. Here is the analysis following for the week of Dec 18 to Dec...

I believe this happens mainly because hedge funds have much more flexibility to use various instruments and strategies. Unlike the mutual funds which as a group always lag the SPY, and have to be always invested in the market.

http://www.hedgeindex.com/hedgeindex/en/default.aspx?cy=USD The hedge fund index(sort of an average of all hedge funds) does outperform SPY

I apologize. It was not my intention. I cannot really say against what you said, because I only have intuitive, and now it seems rudimentary understanding of these concepts. Hopefully I will be back with better arguments, but it was an interesting discussion nonetheless.

anyways enough of this discussion.

I guess I am back to the first question. My premise was that the above (directing funds, price discovery) should be the value that is produced by the trading/investing industry. But for the most part at present it is not doing that properly. Why dont we try to encourage longterm investing...

The reason I put Bogle's name was because his views fell in line with mine. Not the opposite. I dont agree with everything he says. I am not trying to justify his views.

http://ablazeofbrightblue.blogspot.com/2011/11/tax-wall-street-transactions-petition.html

a)trading/investing as a whole industry at present in my opinion doesnt produce any "societal value". Read previous post by "sle". "Oppurtunity to speculate" is a not a societal value. So a lot of very smart/motivated people are essentially working in an area which is not producing any societal...

Pot/cocaine/drug industry also has a value- provide delusions..But why is that not legal? The term that may be important here is "social" value. Oppurtunity to speculate may have some value to an individual, but to the society in large, there is no value. Most people will loose.

You must also remember that "gambling" which is also an opportunity to speculate is highly regulated(illegal in many scenarios) and is not that big a drain on the US economy.

Yes, that is what I was saying. Tabloid press does have a societal value, it provides entertainment to its readers.

Yes, the purpose of any industry is to generate fees for itself. But what value does it give in exchange for the fees it extracts? All industries have to justify their fees by giving back some value in exchange.

While I am very new to investing/trading, the above statements shows a basic misunderstanding of what Wall Street/trading/investing industry stands for. As I said earlier, the trading/investing industry as a whole is supposed to produce value by directing funds to those areas which will...

I think there is about to be a short market cycle. The put call ratio has been greater than 1 for 3 consecutive days. The short interest ratio decreased from the previous day, for the first time after a week or so. There was a very significant increase in volume on friday, however the price...

I agree liquidity is important. But do we really need the amount of liquidity being provided by the HFT and other technical traders? All the HFT people go around emphasizing how much more liquidity they are providing to the stock market. But the volatility was probably much lower before the HFTs...

Well..you cannot prevent people from trading on technicals. What you can do is put guidelines which would encourage trading based more on fundamentals rather than technicals. Some of them would be a)minimum hold time of say 1 week or more. If you reduce the hold time too much you risk...