I am doing basic research. I do trade my own account, global macro analysis with a simple trend following overlay. Fundamental factors drive the...
Agreed. If the stock market in the short run is just a standard normal distribution why not just enter random trades, cut losses quickly and let...
Thank you very much. In a standard normal distribution, 68.3% of the observations will be within one standard deviation of the mean.... is the...
I am working on a little project here. The basic issue is: how useful are these patterns? Overview: I am defining a bearish engulfing reversal...
Yea, only $3000. Because if it works, like xandman alluded to, why would they not be starting a hedge fund which uses this tech? That would make a...
Has anyone every heard of this? The idea of this sort of adaptive software is interesting, and from my research Mendelsohn seems legit. The...
That sounds like an excellent list. I will try to track them down. I am getting the general idea that you are suggesting that going to the...
Thanks for the great reply. I started with the CMT stuff mainly because it seems to be an unbiased source for a list of materials to start...
smallStops: Thank you for having something coherent to day that does not blame all problems on the Fed and HFTs. Sincerely, me.
Good job noticing that the chart was from 2010. Good "prediction." Go play some golf or something relaxing.
The Dow in completely doomed. The neckline is around 8,000, top of head is around 14,000, which would put the minimum price target at 2000. I...
Here is a clip from The Alchemy of Finance: "...the Federal Reserve announced a large increase in M1; the increase in M3 was more moderate...I...
Only 9%?!?! If that is net of the spread and other transaction costs, that is a freaking killing man... if you can turn over a few as five BTC per...
Thin liquidity is definetly something I considered, but I feel like I could get around that by validating that an adequate bid/offer even exists...
How did they "get stuck" exactly? Why would someone not be able to withdraw cash from MTGOX?
http://bitcoin-analytics.com/ Look for the Arbitrage tab to see a table depicting prices between different BTC exchanges this site makes...
Interesting, I have not considered that issue yet. Something I am still unsure of is how to quickly transfer BTC from one exchange to another...
Anyone doing this? Seems like there are wide spreads, especially between MTGOX and others...
Because the futures are forward contracts, right. Thanks
would not have to, just assume that the two prices must eventually equal eachother. Perhaps I am using the word arbitrage loosely.
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