PERSEUS, you cannot make up definitions to further your point zero sum MEANS something it was defined, and created, many years ago as a...
perseus, the issue isn't "are the markets as a whole zero sum?" clearly, THEY ARE NOT the issue is - are the futures market zero sum. they...
"anyway, traders and econ professors have been debating this for well over a century. " um, no. no trader who understands markets "debates"...
correct why do we keep repeating ourselves for every long futures position, there is an offsetting short - in futures that is what makes...
i appreciate your posts as well. feel the lurv :)
perseus. are you reading what people are writing? what you are saying is completely irrelevant to the fact that futures are zero sum, and...
well, a 10 pt stop on ES is roughy equivalent to a 100 pt stop on YM that is a position trade, not a daytrade scalp
actually, there are significant differences between the ES and the YM. they are differently weighted, the YM generally ***follows*** the ES, etc....
this thread is amazing. it is incontrovertible that futures are a zero sum game it is incontrovertible that stocks are not fwiw,...
the dow jones is not meaningless. however, it is a rough proxy. as long as people think it has meaning, - it has meaning. that sounds...
the fact that SOME markets are not a zero sum game (stocks are not, futures are), is a matter of underlying market reality what does this have...
for DJIA here are some #'s current yield is 2.3 %, CURRENT PE is 21, current payout ratio is 43.3, current relative to value range is 123....
first of all spike, if it's above 0%, it's not a zero sum game things aren't "kind of " a zero sum game. they either ARE or they aren't...
spike, you are correct about the stock market but wrong about the futures market. i will explain this again. there is a very significant...
and alan, you left out the most important factor - EMOTION a big determinant in the price discovery process.
"The poor in the US may be fatter for the first time in history, but that does not change the fact that there are more people living under the...
a smart trader can admit when his assessment was wrong, and reassess. way to go :)
furthermore, this has nothing to do with making money. this is about the structure of the market. not a how to lesson knowing that an apple...
it's not what i believe. it is a fact it is definitional, and anybody who understands basic economics/finance will agree there are lots...
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