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Re:Einstein and the Great Fed Robbery by pfortuny on Friday September 20, 2013 @02:43PM (#6419692)
Turns out (see http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-08/jp-morgan-has-zero-... above) that it is not that much lower than 0.1.

IIRC, obviously.

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Re:Einstein and the Great Fed Robbery by sseveran on Saturday September 21, 2013 @02:50AM (#6422197)
You (and the article) are assuming that all trades are created equal. At 95% accuracy you can easily never have a losing trading day. Plus given the massive amount of derivatives you can "mark to market" when convenient and end up with no losing trading days.
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