Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
12-01-2007, 02:51 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 576
Re: A TRADABLE CONCEPT?
Here are the instruments generated by the screen described, as of Friday's closing prices:
NOV PTR PKX PCU LFC
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-30-2007, 10:57 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 576
Re: A TRADABLE CONCEPT?
You are on the right track about using price and volume as indicators over 1st and 2nd derivative indicators and oscillators.
Here is an idea:
0. Settle on the value of N and determine when the...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-30-2007, 12:15 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 576
Re: A TRADABLE CONCEPT?
kimchi,
I am watching this with some interest. You might want to set some parameters that limit your scope, focus your attention and simplify the universe of options. For example, you might decide...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-17-2007, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 134
Re: Shorting a stock and it goes to Zero
Such situations are now taxable events. Since you do not cover in this situation, there is no offsetting transaction and thus the trade never closes and no taxable event occurs.
That tax-free...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-12-2007, 11:28 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 276
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-12-2007, 11:26 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 564
Re: so i\'ll have a law degree soon...
Ask three questions to get your answer:
1. What would I do if I no longer had to worry about money?
2. What have I achieved that has given me satisfaction and a feeling of importance?
3. What...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-12-2007, 11:56 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 455
Re: Etrade Potential Bankruptcy?
In a bankruptcy, all assets are locked until they sort things out. This means you cannot but or sell until then, whenver that actually is.
That's regarding your positions. Regarding your cash,...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-10-2007, 07:19 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 276
Re: Giving the long dollar trade another try
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Not stupid, yet definitely not long-term +EV.
This sentence caught my eye. Are you saying the commissions were too great long term, or are you saying it was...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-10-2007, 07:09 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 276
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-10-2007, 07:08 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 276
Re: Giving the long dollar trade another try
OK, here is what I mean:
The short trade of say, QQQQ (QQQ at that time) before March 2000 is in fact leading out with a prediction. In this case, a valid prediction. The OP suggests "shorts in...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-10-2007, 06:49 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 276
Re: Giving the long dollar trade another try
I apologize for being hard to understand, both in content and motive for posting here from time to time.
Mr. Now doesn't see any citations of any academics in his reply to the OP, which is the...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-10-2007, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 82
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-10-2007, 06:02 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 85
Re: According to Dow Theory - Bear Market
There is a little more to Dow Theory than what you are representing here. You make no mention of confirmation for example.
The Dow price is currently moving in a consensus pivot zone- the area on...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-09-2007, 11:59 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 276
Re: Giving the long dollar trade another try
Not stupid, yet definitely not long-term +EV. Shorting before mid-March 2000 in any size requires recklessness, strong belief in prediction, or both. Market participants can maintain an irrational...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-08-2007, 10:56 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 276
Re: Giving the long dollar trade another try
For the record, Mr. Now engages in trading trends-- not "counter" trends.
Genuine trading in genuine trends is not supported by strongly held beliefs about the validity of predictions.
The...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-08-2007, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 276
Re: Giving the long dollar trade another try
Judgements like these are usually *not* what good trades are made of. You are predicting, in effect telling Market what to do, instead of listening to what Market is saying via price and volume.
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-15-2007, 03:48 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 92
Re: How much money will i have after 3 years?
Simplify the problem with the Ruleof72.
Take 72 and divide by your return.
Take 72 and divide by 50% return.
Your money doubles in roughly: 1.44 years
Therefore your 8K is roughly 16 in...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-12-2007, 09:37 PM
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Replies: 111
Views: 433
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-10-2007, 04:12 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 68
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-10-2007, 08:51 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 130
Re: Hiring a money manager
You actually mean 'accredited investor', someone who matches this definition below. Such a person is assumed to be sophisticated enough to not need the umbrella of protections defined in the...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-10-2007, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 372
Re: advice for first time home buyer?
Mr. Now says real estate cycles typically move in 10-year swings.
Rising to 1987, then flat for 10 years.
Rising into 2007.
You have plenty of time and as the renter you have the power now....
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-05-2007, 11:10 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 134
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-05-2007, 11:06 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 208
Re: Barron whats your r.o.r??
Barron,
Alot of the readers here are new to these terms. You might want to consider defining them as you go along, so what you write can be followed by anyone reading your more useful posts:
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-28-2007, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 76
Parallel universes exist - study
Do they? I post this and hope to hear from some physicists on this forum.
The role of attention and observation on actual state (vs. probability distributions) is certainly intriguing:
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
09-28-2007, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 167
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