Large Cap Vs Mid Cap Stocks Momentum Trading. Any paper references to this strategy please?

I am trying to implement a long short model on world market indices. Any references to studies with regards to Large cap vs Mid Cap Long/Short Strategy employed by Hedge funds would be helpful!

Was this sent to the wrong person?

I gotten an email that landed in my junk mail. Read below

Special Situation Report?
From: karina montesinos olivares (karina_cool_9@hotmail.com)
You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as safe
Sent:October 19, 2009 6:07:49 AM
To:dancin_dan@hotmail.co.uk
Successful companies aren’t born, they’re made – and they have to work their way from humble beginnings and through the ranks just like everyone else. When it comes to our microcap stock investing, I’m in it to win and win big ? and that means the goal is never to hit less than a few 10-baggers in every microcap bull cycle. This week we’ve identified one microcap stock that is on its way to changing the game in its respective market, The Wyncrest Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: WNCG – News), an innovative a niche insurance consortium. The company has six planned acquisitions that could catapult the company?s revenues to

$50,000,000.00 in 2010! The stock is currently trading at $0.05 and our near term target is $0.43. Load up on WNCG before all the trend chasers… and cash out while short traders continue tripping over themselves. Watch for big swings upward and momentum trading in WNCG as the stock continues to gain momentum and trade under the radar of the Wall Street traders.

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that dancin_dan@hotmail.co.uk isnt my email but is close to mine (dancin_danny@hotmail.com) so my question is, why was this sent to me? I sent the other dan guy an email and never said it was not delivered (failure email never came up as it usually does when the email address is wrong so this email does exist.)

Investors / Traders that have been in the market for 10+ years?

Hi

My personal experience has been very bad, in spite of paying a lot of money and learning dozens of different strategies.

If you fit into the criteria listed (i.e. you’ve been trading / investing successfully for over a decade), i would like to ask if your ROI has exceeded the ^DJI over that time frame.

If it has, what kind of returns have you been making?

Honest answers please. Too many crooked salesman are out there making trading sound like a breeze. I’ve done a crap-ton of financial modelling, dcf, fcff, fcfe, momentum and trend trading strats and at the end, i realize now that it may all have been for naught.

I would know enough to conduct a seminar on financial modelling and technical analysis, but in the end, i would not believe in a word myself.

investing in premarket volume leaders?

Do alot of you use the strategy of looking for volume leaders in pre-market trading that have positive news developments and upward moving momentum.. getting in at a low price and setting a limit order to sell it when the price rises before or at the opening of the bell?

I’m curious as to how many investors use this strategy to make small profits.. One of my relatives made millions during the rise of tech stocks, but I have friends who have had losses as well.. so what do you pros do?

-RK

Your view on “Contrarian Investor Sees Economic Crash in China” (factual analysis appreciated)?

Following article extracted from NY Times, written by David Barboza, Friday, January 8, 2010,

James S. Chanos built one of the largest fortunes on Wall Street by foreseeing the collapse of Enron and other highflying companies whose stories were too good to be true.

Now Mr. Chanos, a wealthy hedge fund investor, is working to bust the myth of the biggest conglomerate of all: China Inc.

As most of the world bets on China to help lift the global economy out of recession, Mr. Chanos is warning that China’s hyperstimulated economy is headed for a crash, rather than the sustained boom that most economists predict. Its surging real estate sector, buoyed by a flood of speculative capital, looks like “Dubai times 1,000 — or worse,” he frets. He even suspects that Beijing is cooking its books, faking, among other things, its eye-popping growth rates of more than 8 percent.

“Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses,” he said in a recent appearance on CNBC. “And there’s no bigger credit excess than in China.” He is planning a speech later this month at the University of Oxford to drive home his point.

As America’s pre-eminent short-seller — he bets big money that companies’ strategies will fail — Mr. Chanos’s narrative runs counter to the prevailing wisdom on China. Most economists and governments expect Chinese growth momentum to continue this year, buoyed by what remains of a $586 billion government stimulus program that began last year, meant to lift exports and consumption among Chinese consumers.

Still, betting against China will not be easy. Because foreigners are restricted from investing in stocks listed inside China, Mr. Chanos has said he is searching for other ways to make his bets, including focusing on construction- and infrastructure-related companies that sell cement, coal, steel and iron ore.

Mr. Chanos, 51, whose hedge fund, Kynikos Associates, based in New York, has $6 billion under management, is hardly the only skeptic on China. But he is certainly the most prominent and vocal.

For all his record of prescience — in addition to predicting Enron’s demise, he also spotted the looming problems of Tyco International, the Boston Market restaurant chain and, more recently, home builders and some of the world’s biggest banks — his detractors say that he knows little or nothing about China or its economy and that his bearish calls should be ignored.

“I find it interesting that people who couldn’t spell China 10 years ago are now experts on China,” said Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros and now lives in Singapore. “China is not in a bubble.”

Colleagues acknowledge that Mr. Chanos began studying China’s economy in earnest only last summer and sent out e-mail messages seeking expert opinion.

But he is tagging along with the bears, who see mounting evidence that China’s stimulus package and aggressive bank lending are creating artificial demand, raising the risk of a wave of nonperforming loans.

“In China, he seems to see the excesses, to the third and fourth power, that he’s been tilting against all these decades,” said Jim Grant, a longtime friend and the editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, who is also bearish on China. “He homes in on the excesses of the markets and profits from them. That’s been his stock and trade.”

Mr. Chanos declined to be interviewed, citing his continuing research on China. But he has already been spreading the view that the China miracle is blinding investors to the risk that the country is producing far too much.

“The Chinese,” he warned in an interview in November with Politico.com, “are in danger of producing huge quantities of goods and products that they will be unable to sell.”

In December, he appeared on CNBC to discuss how he had already begun taking short positions, hoping to profit from a China collapse.

In recent months, a growing number of analysts, and some Chinese officials, have also warned that asset bubbles might emerge in China.

The nation’s huge stimulus program and record bank lending, estimated to have doubled last year from 2008, pumped billions of dollars into the economy, reigniting growth.

But many analysts now say that money, along with huge foreign inflows of “speculative capital,” has been funneled into the stock and real estate markets.

A result, they say, has been soaring prices and a resumption of the building boom that was under way in early 2008 — one that Mr. Chanos and others have called wasteful and overdone.

“It’s going to be a bust,” said Gordon G. Chang, whose book, “The Coming Collapse of China” (Random House), warned in 2001 of such a crash.

Friends and colleagues say Mr. Chanos is comfortable betting against the crowd — even if that crowd includes the likes of Warren E. Buffett and Wilbur L. Ross Jr., two other towering figures of the investment world.
Hi Cutie, good thoughts. Shouldnt all fortune tellers give a time frame of predictions ie telling that someone would become a billionaire in 2010 or in 20100?
Longlive, thanks for the valuable contribution, as always.
Mr Hex Vision, good points, cant agree with you more, adding to everything mentioned information and news are not so easily accessible by the locals which hindered local investors’ decisions wisely. Bottome line, when will the burst?

Is currency trading legal?

A guy who used to work with me quit his job & is living comfortably from making his $$$ through currency trading. He does next to nothing & claims to make good $$$. Could this be true? Is it even legal or he is just yanking my chain?

How do i start investing in Foreign Currency.?

I was speaking to an old co-worker and he was telling me he traded currency at night after his day job ended. (That is when the foriegn makets are open) Would like to hear from people doing this currently and their opinon/advice on this. How much money do i need to start this, and possible websites to check out?….Thanks!

Will the Treasury Department classify China as a currency manipulator in its April 15 report?

The severe trade imbalance America has with China has cost us an estimated 2.4 million jobs. Currency manipulation by the Chinese government has artificially made its goods cheaper and ours pricier. This month, we have the chance to do something about it.

http://action.ourfuture.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=82

What caused the reduction of manufacturing jobs here in the U.S. over the years?

What really caused the loss of manufacturing jobs over the years? Is it due to the fact that countries such as china have under-valued their currency making it cheaper for U.S. firms to move their businesses abroad to create cheaper products? Or is it more due to international specialization and trade, where many manufacturing jobs were lost as a result of specialization by different countries such as China and Japan therefore making these industries become opportunity costs to the U.S.? Or is it a little bit of both?

I’m going to stay in london in march for one month: Where can i find a temporary job?

I would like to find a job, especially concerning my favourite field: trading stocks and currency. Do you know any website dedicated to temporary jobs in london? (i hope to work for some hedge found)
Thanks for the help