Quote from xflat2186:
Commie although I appreciate your humor I donât think many others here will get all the subtle and no so subtle references you make to other quacks like riskfree from some other boards we all find entertaining.
I too, read his ditty on moving averages on his other self touting thread and found it just eye opening that he has a sound grasp of very basic math principles. Yet, nary a word about how that makes trading risk free.
As many have posted even arbitrage has a degree of risk in it, and its not available to people like riskfreetrading who is a retail trader. One of the most basic principles of the market is that any return over and above the risk free rate has some degree of risk associated with it. Thatâs not really open for debate otherwise the markets as we know them would no longer exist.
The math stuff was aimed at readers who think they are above anyone else or would doubt too much what I stated, so that they factually understand that I have teeth. You seem to have gotten that point, and my objective was met.
Assuming your own system of beliefs regarding what can and cannot be free, why did you then expect/demand that I would give "a word about how that makes trading risk free" to anyone when such information is of great value?
A principle is not a fact. It is a fundamental law/assumption that human make/discover in building/understanding man made and natual systems. Of course it should not be contradicted by facts (or not too much contradicted by facts). Markets are a man made system, and although founded on certain principles, this does not mean that the implementation of a market system will not lead to holes that can be exploited by the few or contain elements that are inherently violating the principles at the theoretical level but that cannot seen with the naked eye of everyone, with the exception of the few. Such few will not exploit the found holes too much for various reasons and limitations.
The gaps are in the understanding and in the human mind. Some of these holes (not all) may be plugged through learning. One can not know about such things unless they have the ability and desire to learn.
My principle is: Anything conceived by the human mind contains flaws and holes, unless it can be proven with certainty. I have not seen any proof that the risk free principle cannot be violated, yet you hold on to it as if it is a certainty.