I'm Short here....

Quote from lindq:

I will only point out here that if someone had bought SPY each time an ET member called the top in the past 90 days, they would be long ago retired. And if those who called the top actually shorted on each call - which I seriously doubt - they would be long ago broke. What does that say about the talents here?

There is nothing to say that this market can't continue in a technically "overbought" position for the next few months.

What are you talking about man? "Top/bottom" picking can be a very viable method of trading (go visit PTJ if you don't think it can be done) provided one employ sound money/position management. I have been reading your posts for the last few months, and the pompous-arrogant manner in which you deliver your useless rhetoric is highly annoying.
 
Quote from ig0r:

If you're super-trader, riddle me this, wouldn't it have been easier to just be long the whole way up? I'm sure you would have made more money with less stress, am I wrong?

Yes, you are wrong.

While it would have been nice to make 40% going long the S&P the last year, my track record over 9 years speaks for itself. I have an average gain of 40% a year, so its hard to knock my strategy.

But it would have been nice to have been long since 800 S&P. Why didn't you tell me to go long last March?
 
Quote from James Stock:

Yes, you are wrong.

While it would have been nice to make 40% going long the S&P the last year, my track record over 9 years speaks for itself. I have an average gain of 40% a year, so its hard to knock my strategy.

But it would have been nice to have been long since 800 S&P. Why didn't you tell me to go long last March?

Because I didn't know last march.

Wait a minute, I am wrong? So you're telling me the correct play all this time would have been to short on the way up, trying to pick tops?
 
Quote from ig0r:

Because I didn't know last march.

Wait a minute, I am wrong? So you're telling me the correct play all this time would have been to short on the way up, trying to pick tops?
I think he's saying he has a system that consistently returns him 40% regardless of bull/bear market, and no one was expecting the S&P to go as high as it did last year, so he stuck to his own system. He can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the idea I got from his posts.

-Fast
 
Quote from ig0r:

Because I didn't know last march.

Wait a minute, I am wrong? So you're telling me the correct play all this time would have been to short on the way up, trying to pick tops?

too many people here cannot read English. Read what I said. While it would have been nice and the correct move to be long and make 40% in the last year, it is not the correct strategy for ME.

I've made 40% a year for NINE years doing what i'm doing. So why change?
 
Quote from Fast_Trader:

I think he's saying he has a system that consistently returns him 40% regardless of bull/bear market, and no one was expecting the S&P to go as high as it did last year, so he stuck to his own system. He can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the idea I got from his posts.

-Fast

Yes, well said. I thought you were one of my detractors?
 
Quote from Fast_Trader:

I think he's saying he has a system that consistently returns him 40% regardless of bull/bear market, and no one was expecting the S&P to go as high as it did last year, so he stuck to his own system. He can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the idea I got from his posts.

-Fast

Selling naked calls doesn't seem very market neutral to me :D

Not to mention that a WHOLE lot more than 40% could have been made quite easily playing long for the last month or two, not to mention the last 6 months
 
Quote from ig0r:

Selling naked calls doesn't seem very market neutral to me :D

Not to mention that a WHOLE lot more than 40% could have been made quite easily playing long for the last month or two, not to mention the last 6 months

How about since Jan 2000? How's your long record over the last 4 years?
 
Quote from James Stock:

How about since Jan 2000? How's your long record over the last 4 years?

Never said I have been long since 2000, I go where the market goes, I'm well aware that I can't predict it's turns and I don't intend to try
 
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