Traders' Roundtable

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Doug Hirschorn posted "13 Trader Resolutions for 2010" on a blog for CNBC..... Here are three of Buffett's rules: 1. Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. 2. The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient. 3. The most important qual...

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A.Kiev, Trading to Win

Tue Dec 1, 2009 12:15pm EST
Trading coach to hedge fund powerhouse SAC dies

Rest In Peace

If not too bored, you could read:
A.Kiev, Trading to Win and
T.Gallwey, Inner Game of Golf

best regards, as ever

Any dendogrammer around? The complexity in dealing with correlated market lies in correctly identifying correlated groups. With just two markets this is simple enough, the market is either correlated or not. With three things get a little more complicated. Imagine three markets A,B & C, if A is ...

Hong Kong-based hedge funds of funds shop Infiniti Capital believes it has found a better way to quantitatively rank the risk adjusted returns of hedge funds than that used by traditional methods. The new ranking method, called the Infiniti Single Fund Analysis (SFA) score, is included as a risk adj...

You could copy a section of your Excel sheet in a picture software (I use Infranview).

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If anyone has any ideas/suggestions/leads????

How about using historical volatility x pointvalue x YourMultiplier?

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... and Kelly, results seem very close

Sluggo,

Does your spreadsheet calculate an optimal f of approximately 8% ?

Yes and I guess I answered my previous question, optimal f is not the % to risk on each trade.

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Sluggo, thanks for your kind relpy, I'll study the link you suggested and I would like to have your precious opinion on this: Optimal f is the divisor of the biggest loss, the result of which we divide our total stake by to know how many bets to make or contracts to have on Optimal f is not the perc...

I enjoyed the book, I found a lot of interesting things, expecially the idea of trading in terms of target returns and the best way to get it with optimal f. I have the feeling that Vince dismisses Kelly too quickly: In trading we can count on our wins being for various amounts and our losses being ...

So, instead of asking Kat the questions suggested by Sluggo, I would ask him to be more explicit about his strategy so that potential investors, given enough energy and the right tools, can see for themselves, from their own testing, what returns can be replicated and how. I agree, it would have be...

Sluggo, I agree with you, I guess that selling point for the synthetic fund is (quote from the pdf) the ability to generate very similar returns in a much more mechanical way and with a lot less effort. If it is, we may be able to do without expensive hedge fund managers and all the hassle, includin...

The Financial News reports that Goldman Sachs has become the first bank to create a hedge fund replication tool in a move that could lead to a shake-up of the $1.3 trillion (€976bn) hedge fund industry. The article reveals that the platform will greatly undercut the notoriously high fees of the h...

How about fully accept the concept of uncertainty? Uncertainty principle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle or the Heisenberg indeterminacy principle — the latter name given to it by Niels Bohr — states that when measuring conjugate qua...

I note that one or two of the better known trend following CTAs trade these currencies but I suspect they trade the currency forwards rather than futures. I was also surprised to see some of the biggest CTA trade illiquid currencies on FINEX. Maybe the futures broker before submitting the order giv...

In the late 1920s Warner Heisenberg stunned the scientific world with his uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. He showed that you can look closer and see less. Adding a little bit of Behavioral Finance you could notice how utility function or initial state of wealth modifies judgement of numb...