Traders' Roundtable

AND WHAT HAPPENS when someone else comes along and steels their market share or the Chinese LAUNCH THEIR OWN or xy z happens All Im saying is that all weve heard for centuries - is its different this time On average the public lose a whopping amount of money buying Internet based IPO's Im sure faceb...

neither of them are worth 10% of their market cap
its a bubble and like every bubble before them they will pop
the market learned nothing from 1999
facebook in particular is soooooo suspetible to legal action I personally would pay 50 cents for a share

rajivm I dont understand your point - show me a strategy with a long track record of making better returns I dont mean some little fancy short term strategy that has done well for 2 years as we all know where they end up ? Agreed the Rentechs of this World may have found the holy grail - they may ha...

chuck b / Rabidric - yes I agree entirely and its name is
WINTON

i think , fwiw, its best just to understand that there will probably never be a CTA or fund that has an MAR of > 1 if it lasts 20 years and therefore allocating assets on the basis of teh last few years performance where a new CTA has great stats or an MAR of 3 is a ridiculo9us exercise I wrote befo...

Interesting stuff I have always found - and thats just my experience on my systems - that the best edge available in trading - is that the market is moving in your direction at the time of entry and hence the odds - in most systems- should be weighted towards sell MOO (Stop entry whatver) as opposed...

surely the odds of this beinga winning trade have now changed - the market has moved against the initial position and hence is moving in an un-favourable direction - it may well be you get in and then in tanks in your direction - hey presto you risked less money than teh system and made out good - b...

Difficult market to get access to ?

yeah it ws teh zero hedge idea - think it made sense actually - but not a system one could seriously trade for all the obvious reasons - friend of mine tested out some time systems based loosely aound it - fascinating resultts - very seductive and very alluring !!! but probably not worth pusuing bes...

Well
what Im looking at is a system that is so simple its ridiculous - it has made 40%+ cagr for 12 years and involves 2 trades per day and it involves Gold - to good to be true - well it probably is - but my word !!!

VERY kind and much appreciated
C

HEHE - Not on your life !!!!

Anyone got 10 years of hourly data on Gold they could send me / sell me - happy to share an interesting idea with anyone who has it

Please P.M me if you can help
Best
C

too good

Anyone operating out of the U.K come up with any good ideas on making assets as secure as possible going forward? Its amazing ho wmany funds are still sitting on one Prime Broker and One Custodial bank - some TF's are sitting on these both in France ? Anyway - anyone got any good ideas for security ...

Just seen this link
Maybe very useful for re-establishing Dollar / Spain / Greece/Portugal / Italy - very soon so the transition can be made asap

Thanks to both of you for your comments Yes you are both right - Im just musing I think taking some money off the table in those instruments that have performed best over the last 250 days may be something to test - let the test say if its right On another topic (sort of) this all came about due to ...

Anyone toyed with the idea of looking abck at 2011 - finding their most profitable trades and removing those instruments from the portfolio for 2012 ? I maybe forced not to trade Gilts next year (as a UK fund we need to report to the FSA - So my backoffice said to me - your choice - pay a reporting ...

DPH Interestingpost and thanks for posting Do you not find it interesting that something so utterly obvious is a) Something that the brokerage firm would have already understood b) Something that should as clear as daylight to anyone in the industry who does the simplest research project ? c) Somthi...

Sluggo - You r point is valid... BUT .. if you are running a TF Fund out there in the public view and you had, say 2 years of -2.5 and up 2.5% as your risk reducing techniques were working great but those 2 years presented other TF's with two 30% years then Im afraid you aint got a business any longer