<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: AnthisQuoteOriginally posted by: somedevilQuoteOriginally posted by: AnthisDude, please share with us what have you been smoking lately, and where can we get some of this.... you look really happy.... "Dude", you are just stupid. By the way, did you find a pattern in yo...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: MartinghoulSD, let's try this... I'll bite.I am an investor and I would be happy to invest to get the sort of return you're promising. However, I will do this on one condition. Specifically, I insist on a sample with 100% full transparency.So, to begin with, take one of...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DominicConnorAt 2K % our friend could easily turn a cash advance on his credit card into a fortune very quickly, and, as he says at no risk, so I am impressed with his generosity in letting us in on it.... and I am disappointed by those who think an expected return of 2...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: mackbarHello somedevil -Practical experience is good. FO, MO, BO - everyone goes on and on about prestige, compensation, and dead ends, but every location would give you some insight into how things really work. In fact, someday I would like to be a fly on the wall in a...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: AnthisDude, please share with us what have you been smoking lately, and where can we get some of this.... you look really happy.... "Dude", you are just stupid. By the way, did you find a pattern in your technical analysis???P.S.I don't care if I get banned, after all I...

<t>I know this isn't the brightest question perhaps(so...pls. save the jokes ), but I will be glad to hear your own experience in the area.I am asking, because so far I contacted about 100 venture capital companies(phone/e-mail/fax) to promise them an investment model generating about 20 times(2000%...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: PlasticSaberSoros despises EMH at least since he achieved his worldwide fame after breaking the Bank of England ERM in 1992. Most successful hedge fund managers (defined as still surviving and have positive accumulated pnl) are probably similar. Asset managers are ones ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: PaulThis is well known. Which part of the chain of cause and effect is a problem? The weather affects humans, humans move the stock market. Personally I find it hilarious when people try to defend EMH against common sense!If it is indeed a statistical arbitrage then a) ...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: MartinghoulThis is a very well-know behavioral finance result... There's also one about lunar cycles having a non-negligible effect on returns. My favorite, however, has to be the MCI-MCIC (Massively Confused Investors Making Conspicuously Ignorant Choices) paper. Also ...

<t>Here is a quote by Soros:"...financial markets are envisaged as playing an essentially passive role; they discount the future and they do so with remarkable accuracy. There is some kind of magic involved and that is, of course, the magic of the marketplace where all the participants, taken togeth...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: ThomasJCan anyone here recommend interesting QF-related people to follow on Twitter? Mark Joshi/Dominic Connor/Paul Wilmott - do any of these guys use twitter? Or any prominent software dev guys that you recommend?I am a prominent dev software(...cable , guy ....and des...

<t>OK, this is funny...now I am reading one paper by 2 Professors(working in Philadelphis edu and SEC - P.Russel and V.Torbey), it's very interesting and serious study about EMH - is it right or wrong...but this cracked me up:"Saunders (1993) shows that the New York Stock Exchange index tends to be ...

<t>P.S.Just by the way... I just discovered(not that it's my honer at all...) that Kelly criterion is wrong at least because of:- Parrondo paradox.- Will rogers phenomenon.I also have the hypothesis that it MIGHT be wrong or at least producing very different and non-stochastic results when the capit...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: PaulYou've read Poundstone's Fortune's Formula? That tells who! (And, more tellingly, who doesn't!)PI have heard of it, thanks to article by Dr. Thorp.Also, the title itself overrates the Kelly criterion, it's not a "fortunes formula" in the sense that it doesn't tell y...

I know it's well researched subject in the field of economics. But I wonder how many people use it on real world trading decisions?thanks...