Archive for August, 2009
I’ve covered my five reasons for trading leveraged mutual funds before. A refresher: (a) high daily correlation to the underlying index (unlike ETFs, futures, etc.), (b) no per-trade transaction costs, (c) identical results regardless of account size (i.e. perfect scalability…to a point), (d) selective leverage, and (e) the ability to fire and forget and do [...]
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On the Drawing Board (Revisited)
Time to (re)focus. This is the updated short list of things on the drawing board I’m most excited about. Some are carryovers from my previous list (humor me, this is more for me than anyone else), some new, and some done. Disaster Overlay [New] I’ve mentioned this before on the blog – the concept is [...]
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Well Done Mr. Lee
A little history. I wrote this post re: leaving the blog aggregators because I didn’t want to contribute to a place that was promoting less-than-savory characters. As should have been expected, The Fly writes this compelling piece and my email and twitter and comment section blows up with such well thought out rebuttals as “Fly is [...]
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I make a pretty big stink about the need for real-time independently-verified results. Now obviously not everybody requires verified results. I have huge respect for all the folks on my blogroll, but very few of them are verified in any way. So be it. Those folks aren’t marketing their super-duper trading prowess, they’re conveying ideas, [...]
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In my new attempt to be a more vertical blogger, this is a follow up to Dr. Brett’s post: Why Daytrading Stocks in the U.S. is an Increasingly Limited Proposition. Dr. Brett shows that in very recent history, the market has begun shifting away from making big moves in the daytime market (open-to-close) and towards making [...]
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