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Greetings 'investeng',
(though a real name of some sort would be nice)
This is *REALLY* interesting. Do you have any (preferably available online)
references for this?
Nigel
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:31, investeng@xxxxxxx wrote:
> For the benefit of the user group here, when Darvas was alive and his book
> on how he made a million dollars was a bestseller, the states attorney of
> New York sued Darvas claiming that he never made a million dollars.
>
> Court records showed that Darvas NEVER made a million dollars that his book
> so claimed. Trading records that Darvas provided showed that he did make
> money but that in his writings he multiplied the number of positions so
> that his net gains accumulated to over a million dollars.
>
> As to whether or not increased sizing itself would have prevented Darvas
> from actually making all the millions he claimed ... that's something we
> will never know. I don't believe anyone has been able to quantify the
> affect of position sizing on market price behavior.
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