By: wally
Unfortunately, past performance is also the basic way to measure risk, so when advisers tell people to decrease risk exposure, the ways of doing that are shots in the dark.
View ArticleBy: Silversem
I prefer to determine the risk that i take, my self. I trade cfd’s and i can set my own stoploss levels and i can choose the amount of leverage that i want. That way i keep it all in my own hands. I...
View ArticleBy: rd
Past performance measures are very good for evaluating index funds as they let you figure out if the funds have significant tracking errors with respect to the index they are supposed to mimic.
View ArticleBy: contrabandista13
Completely off topic, however, this is the most comprehensive comment on the NFP I have read as of yet….. http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2012/07/06/which-us-jobs-are-are-growing-and-which-are-shrinking
View ArticleBy: brokrbob1
So explain to me how fund managers are different from baseball players. In MLB, the best prospects get sent up to the majors (fund managers get more money) and if they keep performing well they stay,...
View ArticleBy: faulkner
I tried to find the original Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s in The Black Swan, but have settled for Daniel Kahneman’s. ‘The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to...
View ArticleBy: Iamthe50percent
Of course there is no guarantee, but ignore it at your peril. Dogs tend to stay dogs. When I find a fund that has outperformed it’s competition for decades, I’m not going to buy the loser hoping it...
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