Hey gregofx, your welcome to my threads anytime my friend.

Thoughts on Diversification?

I stopped incorporating Beta into my analysis and that is why I stopped. I read an article somewhere that low level beta stocks out performed high level beta stocks. The evidence to this implication on investing (long term as opposed to short term ...

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GG — I focus on all asset classes and mostly the classes that are moving or about to move. Gold is currently in play and that is why I was active in the XAU/USD thread. I was quite about gold when there was nothing to do, I find gold ...

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Fantastic post marcmarc I consider your contributions valuable, and from you language I can tell that your an experienced, well learned trader/investor. You're right many theories in the end give us all headaches and it is this pursuance ...

Thoughts on Diversification?

Thank you for your insightful comments marcmarc and I agree with what you wrote except for this part where I beg to differ: "The problem is that you reduce absolute potential return along with the risk because diversificaton is essentially hedging. ...

Thoughts on Diversification?

I agree with you redlion, most institutions got pounded using conventional risk management methods like VAR (Value at Risk), according to investopedia VAR is: Definition of 'Value at Risk - VaR' A technique used to estimate the probability of ...

Thoughts on Diversification?

Good job! 9% is excellent! Keep that up and you will someday have alot of capital to allocate You are setting yourself up to be a professional portfolio manager

Thoughts on Diversification?

I used to day trade equities professionally and attest to the importance of diversification, day traders diversify strategies and positions. You can't have one trick that works all the time, you need to diversify and have weapons to tackle the ...

Thoughts on Diversification?

I don't understand your reason to diversifying after reaching the goal of 1 million. For you to get to that 1 million with that initial capital on your hands would mean that you have an incredible system, it would also mean that your an outlier, ...

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Thanks for commenting Custos, and I totally agree with you, you have to make sure that your strategy is profitable before you consider diversification otherwise there's no point in diversification. You also have to realize that when you diversify ...

Thoughts on Diversification?

As long as it makes sense to you, and you are able to exploit it, nothing else matters. There must be plenty of profitable traders out there who used Elliot Wave and have internalized the theory to their advantage. No two traders trade alike and ...

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Your welcome bzx, hope it helps Split

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If your past this level, and the book I recommended, let me know. I will point you towards other resources

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Your welcome, I use fundamentals to build conviction other traders don't in their analysis. Your right, fundamental analysis is more than just analyzing financial ratio's it requires a deeper understanding of everything. It took me 2 years and a MSc ...

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Dow Jones Divergence — Below are two charts, one of the Dow Jones Industrial and the other of the Dow Jones Transportation. The transportation has clearly diverged from the industrial with a breakdown being imminent. A breakdown should have ...

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My Mistake — I apologize I posted those on the wrong thread! XAU is an instrument on its own. I was analyzing equities. The correlation between them is surprisingly 0.16% lol.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Hi bzx, I am glad you learnt alot, and welcome to the thread! Concerning Q1, the type of trading your referring to is known as swing trading. And yes, it is more than possible to trade in that manner. As far as I know, technical analysis plays a ...

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The blogrolls on those blogs should provide sufficient additional blogs. Theres a ton of blogs out there, it should take you some time to identify your creme of the crop, but once you do the information you should receive would be worth it.

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AUD/USD — Read this interesting bit of analysis on the AUD/USD at FT/Alphaville. And thought I'd post it here

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