In this thread I have noticed you mention "trend following offers no edge in entry" about half a dozen times. That statement alone disqualifies...
Then maybe you should consider refraining from making allegations that you are unable to substantiate with fact.
You said there was "proof". Where is it? Why call on others to help you defend your own claims? Again I am asking you to post proof of...
So you're making a claim, get called on it and can't substantiate it.
Can you name three big trendfollowing funds that consistently suffer huge drawdowns? And if so, how do those drawdowns compare to widely used...
The above statements just reveal that you are 100% clueless.
3% is far from "betting heavily".
The BPP to my knowledge tracks brick & mortar products and ignores prices for services. It's interesting data, but at times it can be as...
And I am so so tired of people bashing the Fed (and BOE) as a bunch of clueless ivory-tower academics with no grasp of the real world while...
The only one holding erroneous beliefs is you. How much of the trillions in global risk capital is invested in market-neutral strategies? A...
Little entertaining blast from the past here. The ECB's Axel Weber talking to Liesman at Jacksonhole 2008 lecturing Liesman on the ECB's glorious...
Spot on. George Soros on Niederhoffer and surfing small ripples and big waves: [img]
10y BE rate now touching (or even breaking through) the 2008 commodity peak level: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=USGGBE10:IND...
You said the same thing in 2005/6: "New investors in trend following funds will get creamed in the next couple of years". Guess what? You were...
That's why you i) use position sizing and risk management/stops ii) shouldn't be discouraged from re-entering the trade multiple times,...
Even if the hedge fund returns were great, the large majority of hedge funds are highly unsuitable for parking excess cash due to...
The question though is: How well would the average retail investor do in actual reality following that basic 60/40 strategy. Will he not deviate...
A 27 year period of 0% total returns, adjusted for dividends and inflation is not an upward slope.
You're terribly wrong. The top hedge funds made their investors fortunes, and that is after fees. See:...
You assume markets are always perfectly reflecting fundamentals. They're not. Efficient market hypothesis assumes they do and obviously that is a...
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