Stupid to some, a gold mine to others :cool:
Exactly. Because I have no idea if it visits $50 (just picking some ridiculous number) before it hits $3000. If you buy new relative highs and...
Oil related equities outperformed that for 1986-2008 and probably more most other time frames that I have data for. I found that interesting.
I don't have a problem with his view on commodities as much as I disagree with his thesis "when it's not a bubble then it probably will go up for...
Answer: zero (spring 1990 - spring 2010) A nail in the coffin of Jim Roger's "commodity futures have always outperformed the commodity producer...
The Swedes are looking for a tax based on the balance sheet of a financial institution, rather than per transaction:...
The Swedes tried this to finance the bailouts from their real estate/banking crisis and it was a complete dud. Transactions moved to London and...
The problem is something doesn't have to be a bubble in order to go down 75% in value. The same holds true the other direction. Rogers may be...
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As long as you're living responsibly you will ALWAYS be the one who gets ripped off in a modern, developed democracy. Like in a health insurance...
Ah so now it's about the Federal Reserve, not about Bernanke per se. Just to get an idea how good or bad the Fed has been doing their job...
Just as good as the next monkey in line if he wasn't there. What's your point? If Bernanke was never born the financial system wouldn't be in...
Interesting introductory paper by E&R on the topic of ATM straddles http://www.estlander-roennlund.de/binaer_view.asp?BinaerNr=70 The area is...
Didn't the same congressmen that now criticize Bernanke for years sign off laws that enable government expansion, wars overseas and reckless...
Isn't a similar argument valid for trend following? If you can ride a couple of big trends and otherwise cut your losing positions fast you will...
IMO, this "trend" or "direction" non-sense isn't half as important as the idea of volatility-based position sizing, letting winners run and...
What investment/trading approaches (value investing, equity L/S, global macro etc.) come with this type of proof?
Could you please post the exact quote, couldn't find it in Covel's book. All I found in Covel's book was "There is a random distribution...
On the one hand, you have those guys like Niederhoffer picking up nickles in front of steamrollers. On the other hand side you have guys sitting...
Nobody is saying that, you mix it up once again. No trendfollower will ever say "Buy what's going up because you will then have a higher...
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