First, I apologize for the length of this thread. I wish I were a bit more terse. Secondly, no, this isn't an "America Bashing" thread. I am...
The only thing that goes up in a bear market is correlation.
Nothing like being nearly 100% your long term (200 day) moving average ... :eek: China was only 50% above the long term average when that...
And yet somehow when they meet an egg, a human is what you get. Interesting. So yes, under the right conditions, they do have the potential......
Philosophy would be no where without hypotheticals. Most evolved assumes some environmental conditions. If the polar ice caps melt and the world...
Most highly evolved? How presumptuous. So if a more highly evolved creature were to land on our planet, would you willingly give up your...
So where does this innate right come from? Ah yes, that is right -- as soon as the sperm and the egg combine, they somehow supersede all other...
Well said. At the very end of the first trimester (which to me is the latest you should be getting an abortion), a fetus is the size of a small...
Evolving discussion is not side-railing. The academic nature of the topic has kept the trolls at bay. By all means, continue. I certainly...
Smoothing a moving average, without adding lag, is really a question of filtering noise while capturing significant price movements. Looking at...
Which means that you can't just use his strategy as an insurance policy -- you have to be 100% invested in it, because you slowly bleed to death...
Could Taleb be fooled by randomness himself? :confused: Wouldn't that be ironic! Anyway, I don't understand how you can run a fund where you...
Taleb is an interesting character. He seems quite arrogant from his books and interviews. On the other hand, he makes some very, very good...
I find this discussion of tick-rate per time unit as a measure of liquidity quite interesting. In my personal experience, 'time' is a...
It is the 'rags to riches to rags' cycle, happening on a massive level. There was an excellent quote in the recent HBO miniseries John Adams....
So then what happens when physical labor is replaced with mechanical parts on the assembly line? I would much rather be in the country...
In my opinion, as long as we can own and protect the intellectual property, we are effectively a manufacturing country. Example: 1) Inventor...
Industrialization can be virtual, you know... If America can remain educationally competitive (which it is NOT doing a good job of right now),...
What cannot be? A trend? As I said, I believe a trend is an imbalance between buyers and sellers. I believe that imbalances derive from...
That is very interesting. I too have noticed a similar characteristic. I like to think of it as the decisions and events of the higher periods...
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