Lost_BiomedE
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
I mostly play long cycles in the equity market instead of trading. When I do trade equities, I play one or two stocks that I know their behavior intimately. My very active trading is mostly in futures and currencies.
Does it tune itself or is static? It definitely tunes, but it can be meaningful to the algorithm or ignored.
Currently, the borrowed money is nearly free money via low interest rates. A lot of games are being played to juice out every cent that can be made on being able to get cheap money. When the value of assets used to play these games are ignored vs. the diminishing profit. It becomes musical chairs.
I doubt we get your everyday Joe betting on margin like the dotcom bubble, but we have the same effect, just different users.
In practice, you will not get the same level of info on larger companies if you are not institutional or in a group of retail investors holding a decent share-count. Information obtained is usually a small amount above what is found on the conference call or via google.
Location: Kailua-Kona, HI
email: my user name without underscore (alloneword) at gmail