Puzzles for Traders

[Traitor1 10]

And it's for sure not that he used the suspension cables, thus travelling outside the main bridge/road area, going around it?

 

Or was he in a helicopter? Or a plane?

 

Or was he actually King Kong and thus able to step over this man-sized bridge, a la the big version of Mighty Mouse's theory?

 

Or is he Spiderman?

 

If not, at me to the uncle list.

[Patuca 13]

If we exchange railroad trax with river will it ruin the puzzle? Just tryin to narrow things down...OR you could just tell us the answer.

i guess i could let you make it a river if you insist. i can't tell the answer until more people cry "uncle".

[bobcollett 10]

i guess i could let you make it a river if you insist. i can't tell the answer until more people cry "uncle".

 

OK Patuca

I guess two can play your game of suspence

Please hold the answer till Sunday night.

That will give us all another chance.

And I know you are dying to tell us .......

kind regards

bobc

[jpennybags 11]

i guess i could let you make it a river if you insist. i can't tell the answer until more people cry "uncle".

 

I could live without knowing for a few more days... possibly a lifetime. I've kinda lost interest to be honest.

[Patuca 13]

I could live without knowing for a few more days... possibly a lifetime. I've kinda lost interest to be honest.

no problem. i understand.

[liahwy 10]

OK Patuca

I guess two can play your game of suspence

Please hold the answer till Sunday night.

That will give us all another chance.

And I know you are dying to tell us .......

kind regards

bobc

 

Since we are waiting till Sunday....I bet I can tell you the score of the 49ers vs Falcons game before it starts.

[Patuca 13]

OK Patuca

I guess two can play your game of suspence

Please hold the answer till Sunday night.

That will give us all another chance.

And I know you are dying to tell us .......

kind regards

bobc

sunday night will be fine ...i don't suspect anyone will guess it by then but if they do they will be first to ever guess it. i could give the answer anytime but i need to see more "uncle" cries. i realize it is hard for traders to take a stop loss but it is all part of trading...(according to conventional wisdom.. if you use Stop loses unlike ZDO and myself who are the only two crazy people on board) ..well sometimes i use them if i "feel" like it.

[jpennybags 11]

no problem. i understand.

 

No offense intended... it's been a fun problem to consider (thought I nailed it with post #88). Thanks for raising it. I'm just ready to hear the solution.

[talond 10]

The guys is so big that he has a gravitational field that warps the dimenions of time and space so that he both crosses it and surrounds it at the same time.

[MightyMouse 12]

No offense intended... it's been a fun problem to consider (thought I nailed it with post #88). Thanks for raising it. I'm just ready to hear the solution.

 

That sounds like uncle to me.

 

Let's give it a few more days.

[MightyMouse 12]

sunday night will be fine ...i don't suspect anyone will guess it by then but if they do they will be first to ever guess it. i could give the answer anytime but i need to see more "uncle" cries. i realize it is hard for traders to take a stop loss but it is all part of trading...(according to conventional wisdom.. if you use Stop loses unlike ZDO and myself who are the only two crazy people on board) ..well sometimes i use them if i "feel" like it.

 

There isn't a need for a stop if there is nothing to lose. There is nothing to lose by waiting.

[Patuca 13]

There isn't a need for a stop if there is nothing to lose. There is nothing to lose by waiting.

true ...now why didn't i think of that?

[eminiman414 10]

is it a revolving bridge.

[MightyMouse 12]

a man came to a bridge that crossed a railroad track. he went across the bridge but yet went around the bridge at exactly the same time. how did he do it?

 

The man is the man in the moon.

 

Or, he is flying over the bridge

Edited January 18, 2013 by MightyMouse

[Patuca 13]

The man is the man in the moon.

 

Or, he is flying over the bridge

nope nope neither one is correct

[Patuca 13]

is it a revolving bridge.

nope it is a regular bridge you drive a real size car over or walk over.

[Patuca 13]

The guys is so big that he has a gravitational field that warps the dimenions of time and space so that he both crosses it and surrounds it at the same time.

nope no warping gravitational field

[SIUYA 11]

in the meantime.....

2 for fun...

 

There is a potential liar - lets call him Lance.....he says he lied and cheated throughout his career and then denied it afterwards.

Now he says he is coming clean, and revealing all with the revelations that no one could have done what he did in his career without lying and cheating.....

Is he now lying about lying or is he coming clean

 

..........

 

Socialists claim the wealthy steal from the workers, the wealthy claim those that dont work steal from them, anarchists claim the government steals from everyone, criminals claim they steal because they either need to feed a habit or they were abused growing up - the leaders claim they are merely facilitating the stealing for everyone as the markets need regulated theft as they are too efficient at doing it themselves.

The question is - when someone breaks into your home, are they socialist, the wealthy, anarchists, the government or just plain criminals?

Edited January 18, 2013 by SIUYA

[MightyMouse 12]

in the meantime.....

2 for fun...

 

There is a potential liar - lets call him Lance.....he says he lied and cheated throughout his career and then denied it afterwards.

Now he says he is coming clean, and revealing all with the revelations that no one could have done what he did in his career without lying and cheating.....

Is he now lying about lying or is he coming clean

 

..........

 

Socialists claim the wealthy steal from the workers, the wealthy claim those that dont work steal from them, anarchists claim the government steals from everyone, criminals claim they steal because they either need to feed a habit or they were abused growing up - the leaders claim they are merely facilitating the stealing for everyone as the markets need regulated theft as they are too efficient at doing it themselves.

The question is - when someone breaks into your home, are they socialist, the wealthy, anarchists, the government or just plain criminals?

 

I think Lance will be recorded in athletic history as the greatest liar and cheater ever, even though he may not deserve the title.

 

It makes me wonder, actually frightens me, about who will ever surpass Bernie Madoff in the world of financial fraud. Someone someday will.

[talond 10]

in the meantime.....

2 for fun...

 

There is a potential liar - lets call him Lance.....he says he lied and cheated throughout his career and then denied it afterwards.

Now he says he is coming clean, and revealing all with the revelations that no one could have done what he did in his career without lying and cheating.....

Is he now lying about lying or is he coming clean

 

The answer to this one is that you would have to be a real moron to agree to be interviewed by Opra

..........

 

Socialists claim the wealthy steal from the workers, the wealthy claim those that dont work steal from them, anarchists claim the government steals from everyone, criminals claim they steal because they either need to feed a habit or they were abused growing up - the leaders claim they are merely facilitating the stealing for everyone as the markets need regulated theft as they are too efficient at doing it themselves.

The question is - when someone breaks into your home, are they socialist, the wealthy, anarchists, the government or just plain criminals?

 

The answer to this one is that he would be a dead wealthy socialist anarchist government criminal, because if he is breaking into my home, while I am at home, I would shoot him. Survivors will be shot again.

[BlueHorseshoe 10]

Coin-flipping analogies are commonly used in explanations of probability in trading literature, so here's a heads or tails puzzle . . .

 

I'm flipping a coin. It's evenly weighted, giving a 50/50 probability of heads or tails with each toss. We will each predict a sequence of three flips, and the person whose sequence occurs first is the winner. I predict:

 

Heads, Tails, Tails.

 

To maximise your chances of winning, what sequence should you predict and why?

 

BlueHorseshoe

[Patuca 13]

Coin-flipping analogies are commonly used in explanations of probability in trading literature, so here's a heads or tails puzzle . . .

 

I'm flipping a coin. It's evenly weighted, giving a 50/50 probability of heads or tails with each toss. We will each predict a sequence of three flips, and the person whose sequence occurs first is the winner. I predict:

 

Heads, Tails, Tails.

 

To maximise your chances of winning, what sequence should you predict and why?

 

BlueHorseshoe

heads tails heads maybe

 

Coins have no memory and one flip has nothing to do with another. Every flip starts out fifty-fifty.

 

Three coin tosses. we have one chance of getting all heads, three chances of getting one head and two tails, three chances of getting two heads and one tail, and one chance of getting three tails. adding this together comes to 8, the probability of getting two heads and one tail is 3/8.

Edited January 20, 2013 by Patuca

[BlueHorseshoe 10]

heads tails heads maybe

 

Coins have no memory and one flip has nothing to do with another. Every flip starts out fifty-fifty.

 

 

The probability of any particular sequence of three is 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.125.

 

But the puzzle is to guess which sequence is more likely to occur before mine (not what the next three flips will be).

 

In other words, we might have to continue flipping for a while before either sequence comes up and one of us can be declared winner.

 

BlueHorseshoe

[PrymeTyme 10]

Coin-flipping analogies are commonly used in explanations of probability in trading literature, so here's a heads or tails puzzle . . .

 

I'm flipping a coin. It's evenly weighted, giving a 50/50 probability of heads or tails with each toss. We will each predict a sequence of three flips, and the person whose sequence occurs first is the winner. I predict:

 

Heads, Tails, Tails.

 

To maximise your chances of winning, what sequence should you predict and why?

 

BlueHorseshoe

 

I would pick

 

Tails,Tails,Tails

 

I just change one flip based on your decision

So theoretically i need just one flip right

 

But then again both sequences have an equal chance

To appear

[SIUYA 11]

Coin-flipping analogies are commonly used in explanations of probability in trading literature, so here's a heads or tails puzzle . . .

 

I'm flipping a coin. It's evenly weighted, giving a 50/50 probability of heads or tails with each toss. We will each predict a sequence of three flips, and the person whose sequence occurs first is the winner. I predict:

 

Heads, Tails, Tails.

 

To maximise your chances of winning, what sequence should you predict and why?

 

BlueHorseshoe

 

Much the same as the other answers except I think the odds are 50/50....my maximum odds.

 

For you to win, you need HTT, so to maximise my chances of winning I should piggy back you....and then switch for the last one and choose HTH

 

Otherwise, if i choose a completely different sequence the odds are the same as yours.....slim, whereas by piggybacking you my odds go up to 50:50 for the last coin.