Traders' Roundtable

Investment is a very big topic, and you need to know everything in order to protect your capital.

In U.S., for tax reasons at the end of year, do individual investors, who are income tax-sensitive, need to sell stocks before Dec in order to claim a capital loss for receiving tax deduction? If they hold the losing capital through Dec without selling them, will they able to to receive tax deductio...

Does anyone have any suggestions on where to find historical data on open interest for Dow Jones Options?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric

Does anyone have any suggestions on where to find aggregate balance of settlement accounts for different major countries? which contains the updated and historical data. Thanks in advance for any suggestions Eric Definition for Aggregate Balance: The sum of balances in the clearing accounts and rese...

Does anyone have any suggestions on where to find the definition for Price By Volume (PBV)?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric

Recently, federal funds rate (10 year) rises up to 3.86%, where does the money go? how to know whether money flows to stock market or not?
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric

Losers are cut short, while winners are allowed to run. Typical mechanical trading systems for futures, use "fixed fractional" position sizing / risk management. The typical system pictured here, uses it too. When you refer to "Fixed fractional", do you mean using fixed% of equi...

Does anyone know that any money management approach can still make profit for a long period of time with 50% winning ratio? I have tested with general money management approach for 2000 trades, if the winning ratio is 50%, my initial equity is 10000, the final equity is always less than the original...

Simulation would be a good way to familiarize yourself with the possibilities. Simulation is just curve-fit data to find the best solution at this moment, but those curve-fit setting might change in different time period. Is there any static approach about geometric growth in Math's world to contro...

If I am running 10 systems, and each has 51% winning ratio, then I would like to maximize the profit and minimize the lost by managing the credit on each trade. Let assume the initial equity is $10000 for each system, the total initial equity is $100000 for 10 systems. Does anyone have any suggestio...

Does anyone have any suggestions on how Gov. controls the interest rate directly or indirectly on the market? Gov. controls money supply on following approach: 1) issue Bonds on the market 2) Adjust the rate on discount window or any ratio for fund depost for Bank 3) more supply on publishing new mo...

Thank everyone very much for suggestions Let all comparation using 10 year as a based point, Before breaking something, short-term 3 month is almost equal or higher than 10 year, do you have any suggestions whether middle-term 2-5 year is closed to 10, but less than 3 month or not? If Fed rises shor...

Does anyone have any suggestions on the relationship among GOLD, Oil and USD?
Which one goes up, then another will go up?
Which one goes up, then another will go down?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric

Could you please any comment on my reply?
Thank you very much for suggestions

Full Recession - the yield curve is normal (about 2% difference) . Am I right? the shorter term (1.5%) to be slightly lower than the longer term (2.5%) , e.g., the yield on U.S. three-month money is typically about 1.5% or so below the yield on U.S. ten-year money. Late Recovery - In this stage, int...

Does anyone know any web site providing information for current stage of economic cycle? so I know the current stage - expansion, prosperity, contraction, and recession.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to interpret "normal", "steeper", "flattening", "flat or even inverted"? Full Recession - the yield curve is normal. (Is yield curve reaching top?) Early Recovery - the yield curve is beginning to get steeper. (Is yield ...

no better prediction of future interest rates than the bond markets themselves as this is the net opinion of many thousands of traders, speculators, hedgers etc . So the bond market will be leading indicator for future interest rates, as I interpret your statement properly. For Bond - current yield...

but when it's the other way around (inverted) it is generally assumed that a recession or slowing economy lays ahead. Thank you very much for suggestions Do you mean that if short-term is higher than long-term? Recession or slowing economy lays ahead. During recession, interest rate usually go lowe...

Right now , short-term yields (2 year +) are actually higher than long-term yields (10 year +)......but when it's the other way around (inverted) it is generally assumed that a recession or slowing economy lays ahead. short-term yields (2 year +) is 0.81% long-term yields (10 year +) is 3.61% Short...