OldTrader, I'll happily stipulate all of that but it still doesn't explain the divergence between rents and asset prices. All the factors you...
OK. I don't have an account with them, I was reporting what I had heard. In any case, the point is that they do not prevent you from trading with...
You got this from an email from BrownCo, right? This is a blatant lie. If you email them back and call them on their bullshit, they will...
If people were reacting properly, how would that explain the divergence between rent and asset prices. Martin
America does have a real estate bubble. It can be found in Florida, California, Nevada, Arizona, New York, etc. Nobody is saying that every...
Not where I live. I doubt if there is a single house for sale in the entire San Francisco Bay Area which could be purchased and rented...
Trend trading is inherently technical and short term. Staley's book is about finding flawed companies primarily through fundamental analysis.
The Art of Short Selling by Kathryn Staley is a good read if you're interested in a fundamental approach to short selling, finding companies with...
You can. Enroll. :) Lots of business schools have CRSP licenses. Martin
Mergent is $32k. They have both adjusted and unadjusted data as well as a corporate events database. They are largely survivorship bias free. I...
Are you sure your app is CPU limited? Have you measured the CPU load? It seems to me like a slam dunk that this is going to be massively IO bound....
Wrong. Berkshire's gains on foriegn currency forward contracts (pretax, millions): 2005Q1: -310 2004: 1,839 2003: 825 2002: 297 So a...
An investor is concerned with gaining wealth, not dollars. For example, you would not want a company to invest cash in such a way that increased...
Why not? He's holding a great deal of cash. It would be stupid not to diversify those cash holdings, especially if you feel that the currency you...
Are you saying that hedging your currency exposure is unpatriotic? Martin
The attitude between day traders and economists is one of mutual antipathy. It's a real shame. I think the reason that physicists and...
First lesson: take responsibility for your mistakes. Your first post was arrogant, hostile, and insulting. So people insulted you back. You...
Yeah. :) I've discussed this topic a lot at the Motley Fool board I just mentioned, and they really do try to backtest strategies that trade...
I think Harding picked the wrong parameter to worry about. Over in the Mechanical Investing group at Motley Fool, people have consistently found...
Of course the number of trades is important. Once again it is a matter of statistical validity. If a system gives you one entry a year which you...
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