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  • commenter
    klauden
    Mar 18 06:17 PM
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    Tuesday Outlook: Market Manipulation? [view article]
    David, You are a consumate Market Master but i disagree
    with some of the comments made on the charts.     Reply
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    proseadvocat
    e
    Mar 18 06:07 PM
    Tuesday Outlook: Market Manipulation? [view article]
    I have been preaching about manipulation for years, glad I'm not alone.
    I think this guy is on to something and I like all of his graphs.     Reply
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    ItsJustMe
    Mar 18 02:12 PM
    Tuesday Outlook: Market Manipulation? [view article]
    What about that consumer price index last week that stated we had no inflation worries because energy costs were flat? Reply
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    Dee
    Mar 18 10:46 AM
    Tuesday Outlook: Market Manipulation? [view article]
    How would the 2:15pm FOMC announcement most likely affect the market (DOW, SP, and USD) ? any ideas? Reply
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    bluesmoke
    Mar 18 10:04 AM
    Tuesday Outlook: Market Manipulation? [view article]
    How is it that the Dow rises 21 and the rest of the market is off almost 2%? Hmmmmmmmm... Reply
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    zenalgorithm
    Mar 18 08:07 AM
    Tuesday Outlook: Market Manipulation? [view article]
    I was thinking the same thing about the DOW yesterday...that's the easiest one for the PPT to manipulate. The PPT seems to usually target just one of the indexes...then the others reluctantly follow and slow their descent. Reply
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    hugoh
    Mar 18 08:03 AM
    Tuesday Outlook: Market Manipulation? [view article]
    You ask what big time idiots would buy?
    Plunge Protection Team
    Not that I'd call them idiots, myself. Don't take that to mean I agree with their policies but they have different goals than I do.     Reply
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    indigo-alien
    Mar 18 07:59 AM
    My Website
    Tuesday Outlook: Market Manipulation? [view article]
    Good intentions on that Dow save yesterday, but we all know where that road leads. Reply
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    Georealist
    Mar 18 12:20 AM
    Wednesday Outlook: Moral Hazard Be Damned [view article]
    You're just figuring out that moral hazard is dead!? Amazing...what do think the Fed has been doing for 20 years? Of course they'll monetize..if they don't their won't even be websites for you to print the above meaningless charts on..Every one of the charts is an old story..the XHB has been dropping for months. Maybe you were too busy being righteously indignant to notice. By the way..Alan Greenspan was a devotee of Ms Rand..how frightening is that? Reply
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    Geoff
    Considine
    Mar 17 12:33 PM
    My Website
    Portfolio Theory Vindicated [view article]
    Piker:

    The addition of IDU, IGE, etc. could either have been a lucky guess or good planning. BUT QPP is an objective model and it clearly showed that these made sense. This is not a lucky guess.     Reply
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    A.S.D.
    Mar 16 09:19 PM
    Thursday Outlook: Bulls Lose Momentum [view article]
    Didn't see much on FXF from you when it was going the other direction just a short while ago!!!? Reply
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    The Piker
    Mar 16 12:19 PM
    Portfolio Theory Vindicated [view article]
    Modern Portfolio Theory IS Harry Markowitz, so if Quantext does not use mean-variance optimization to help users allocate capital between asset classes to choose the appropriate portfolio for their risk appetite, you cannot say that QPP has "vindicated" Portfolio theory.

    David's original portfolio was underweight assets that normally perform well in times of unanticipated inflation, and you were correct to add them. But still, the outperformance of the new-and-improved portfolio can most likely be attributed to the rather fortunate addition of IDU, IXC and IGE rather than Quantext.     Reply
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    Geoff
    Considine
    Mar 16 12:05 PM
    My Website
    Portfolio Theory Vindicated [view article]
    Hi Piker:

    First, portfolio theory is broader than Harry Markowitz original conception. Forward-looking portfolio projections are a standard tool among institutional managers--and this is the modern manifestation of portfolio theory.

    Yes, Quantext users could overfit history. But using the forward looking projections discounts recent out-performance and thereby helps to avoid this trap if 20/20 hindsight as you call it. QPP helps to avoid performance chasing.

    The point is that this portfolio was designed more than two years ago and it has provided more return with less risk than the original 'policy' portfolio---as it was projected to do by QPP.

    Regards,

    Geoff     Reply
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    David Fry
    Mar 15 02:24 PM
    Thursday Outlook: Bulls Lose Momentum [view article]
    Thanks all! But, will you love me tomorrow? Reply
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    The Piker
    Mar 15 11:35 AM
    Portfolio Theory Vindicated [view article]
    Geoff:

    I was wondering how you can declare (presumably Harry Markowitz's) Portfolio Theory to be vindicated when Qantext doesn't use the mean-variance "efficient" frontier -- for which he won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics -- to allocate assets?

    Quantext users must specify the allocation to each asset class, which leaves room for 20/20 highsight and performance-chasing..     Reply
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