Having the Endurance to Trade for a Living & Trend Follow
I just returned from the Alphametrix conference in Florida. What struck me was a commodity trading advisor who now is managing in excess of $600 million dollars. ...
Listing of the week: A work of whimsical art
By Erika Riggs, Zillow Mackenzie-Childs estate , Kings Ferry, N.Y. ...
America is becoming a nation of renters
There was fresh data from the government Tuesday showing that the American dream of owning a home is fading fast. The share of all U.S. privately-owned houses that stood empty fell in the fourth quarter to its lowest since 2006 as the number of houses occupied by renters rose faster than the pace of new ...
Is It Really Possible to Trade for a Living via Trend Following?
First answer is yes ,but it is not easy. In my opinion you need a robust idea and strong money management rules in place ...
US home prices fall more than expected
John Raoux / AP A new home for sale in Winter Garden, Fla. By msnbc.com news services U.S. single-family home prices fell more than expected in November, highlighting a sector that continues to struggle to make a meaningful recovery, a closely watched survey showed on Tuesday. ...
Freddie Mac betting against some homeowners
Outrage ensued when people learned that big banks sold bundles of shaky mortgages to unwitting investors, then turned around and placed bets that those securities would tank. Now there's an even bigger bombshell in the offing: An investigation conducted by ProPublica and NPR found that government-owned Freddie Mac has invested in financial instruments that ...
Risk Per Sector When Trading for a Living & Trend Following
Risk per Sector When Trend Following Earlier in my career I had no idea of sector correlation. Only through big drawdowns and losses did I learn the importance of this important rule. ...
Joel GreenBlatt Magic Formula Investing Compounding His Way to Wealth
I just finished reading an article in Business insider from Joel Greenblatt from his Magic Formula investing. They run managed accounts as well as teach how to run the EXACT methodology. ...
2012 Forecast: AUD Boosted By Speculations Over Fed’s QE3 In The Near-Term
The dovish January FOMC statement thrilled investors and boosted higher-yield currencies. Australian dollar was one of the beneficiaries. AUD soared against USD after the Fed pushed back the first expected rate hike to late-2014, from mid-2013 as projected in previous statements ...
Can Simple Robust Trend Following Strategies really Generate Returns?
Too many times we try to make simple things more complicated! There are those that think simple means unsophisticated or not possible to generate money. They are very wrong and the track records going back decades of many trend followers prove them wrong ...