You know, you have a nice big post here criticizing all the points in my post and yet every point you make is off. For instance - "25 billion" !?...
Yes, I should not have said "all". However, some of the best known and famous ones out there: Henry, Dunn, Abraham, Superfund, etc are in large...
Its definitely never worked for stocks, even in a bull market. I can't find any system thats worked consistently on buying new highs and has...
Hey surfer, that situation might help the trends, but not necessarily the funds' returns. They push the trend up (as a group), but they all also...
You make a great point - certainly their size has hurt them (although its helped their wallets by increasing their fees). Many of the commodities...
The trend followers are really underperforming. I have to admire their stamina because if I suffered through a 60% drawdown like John Henry is in...
"Trade Like a Hedge Fund" by me. Next in line, of course, is my book that just came out: "SuperCash".
I wrote this for my column in The Financial Times a few weeks ago and it applies to this thread. Please forgive the size of the post: A few...
Thanks! But you didnt' respond to my point that the systems are still consistently working. In the past 2-3 weeks the bankrupcty chapter and QQQ...
Creative or not they have still been consistently working. Bankruptcy chapter just worked on NWAC and DAL. Deletions chapter has been great. QQQ...
I'm not sure what "trend" means. There's no evidence that stocks trend in one direction or the other. Stocks tend to mean revert rather than...
You get more bang for your buck going long the gap down. Gap ups tend to keep going, but not much, and the results are not worth playing. If the...
I have say, I think Cramer's show is great: - performace is positive and handily beating the indices by about 100 basis points a month or more...
I meant, doesn't run a hedge fund at the moment. But heck, i subscribe to his action alerts portfolio so I'm definitely aware of it. I subscribe...
my favorite writers who also invest: - Joel Greenblatt - Jim Cramer (doesn't invest a portfolio now but definitely paid his dues) - David...
Eric, thanks! In terms of the volatility of the markets - I think all of the systems in the book are starting points. I think there are...
I think the fact that there is a tradable index now makes a big effect on a system like that. People not only buying the underlying stocks but...
I'm still very much in the trenches. In fact, two systems from my book triggered last week. Both ended up successful: the QQQ Crash chapter and...
Friday I wrote an article about Quadriga for realmoney.com: http://www.thestreet.com/p/rmoney/jamesaltucher/10164582.html
Yes. As an anecdote, one of my favorite hedge funds is Rennaissance Medallion, started by Jim Simons. He was a world famous mathematician who...
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