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How to develop a Investing Philosophy
I am currently a sophomore, and have been interest in investing for quite some time. I follow the markets closely for the last two years and have read all the typical investing books, about different investment styles and philosophies. I am still not sure, which one is the best fit for me, therefore...
Risk to Quant Strat
Hi All, An introduction: I am a Junior at Ivy League School studying Operations Research/Quant Finance/CS. I was extended an offer by top BB bank [GS, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley] for consumer credit risk - not in corporate or market funct. unfortunately. The role seems challenging and a majority of...
how do I properly design my investment portfolio for a 5-10 years horizon?
Desired Asset allocation: 22/30/33/15 or 90/10 my main idea was to implement Total World All Cap (IWDA + EIMI + WSML) ; however I was thinking about chaning to AVDV Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF OCF 0.36% instead of WSML , then I was also thinking into adding some alternatives I would...
Feedback on Backtest Results
Hey Fellow Monkeys, I developed a new strategy recently and hired a software engineer to put it into code and I just got some preliminary results I was hoping you all could help me interpret. Please bear in mind this strategy is designed to trade commodity futures as one of the biggest edges to this...
Personal Trading...just completely baffled
Before someone tells me to use the search bar, here's some context: I started a 5/10k account a couple weeks ago, diversified for about a 6 month outlook (I don't day trade). Because Scottrade transaction costs are institutionalized larceny and the market isn't moving at all, I'm pretty much flat...
Scalability and Replicability of Trading Strategy
We've all heard stories of trading "prodigies" (Jan Smarek, Tim Sykes, etc.) that created insane returns for themselves early on (turned 10k into 1M )--but we almost never see these guys killing it with their own funds, or even running a desk for a bigger institution. So a couple questions:
Trading Without a Net: Why I Don't Use Stops on Options Trades
mod (Andy) note: "Blast from the past - Best of Eddie" - This one is originally from September 2010. If there's an old post from Eddie you'd like to see up again shoot me a message. I've received a few messages from you guys about my recent DXD and SLV options trades, and I wanted to take a minute...
Trading based on institutional investors bets?
Guys, have anybody tried to rely not on technical analysis, but on 13F-HR form filed by institutional investors? I mean you can build the history of funds' portfolio for long history and pick winners. And then look at what winners chose for next quarter. ?
What is the FX Trading Techniques Used by Hedge Fund?
Hello everyone. Just want to ask professionals some basic questions here: 1. Do hedge fund trade major FX? 2. What kind of trading techniques do they use? Is it Technical + Fundemantal + Experience? or depend largely on algorithm trading looking for arbitrage ? 3. Does trading really makes a lot of...
Funds that short bonds?
I've been trying to find bond funds that take short positions on treasurys or corporate bonds. Can anyone recommend any?
What strategies do (prop) traders use
Hi everyone, I know a little bit about trading strategies e.g. using Momentum. But what do the prop traders use? Ìs it basically the same just more sophisticated? And how do floor traders place their trades? do they use any strategy or do they just pass through the trades? Thanks Anira
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