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Forum: Psychology and Money Management

April 22nd, 2022, 09:41 PM

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Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

Hi Mitch, Politics, particularly the...

Hi Mitch,

Politics, particularly the politics of covid, are seriously out of bounds here. We've had more than enough of the back and forth on covid for a long time. We are done with it, and past...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

April 15th, 2022, 01:56 PM

Replies: 315

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Posted By bobwest

Sorry, no clue. That's what it's supposed to do....

Sorry, no clue. That's what it's supposed to do. It's possible that someone made a post quoting or mentioning you and then deleted it.

You can always go to your Profile (start with UserCP, then...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

April 11th, 2022, 10:20 PM

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Posted By bobwest

True enough. Bob.

True enough.

Bob.

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

April 11th, 2022, 07:01 PM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

Seth, no more. If you did not read my post,...

Seth, no more.

If you did not read my post, read it now.

You made your point. At another time it could be interesting to discuss. But not in this context. Let it go, please.

Bob.

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

April 11th, 2022, 06:55 PM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

OK, calm down both of you. We don't have...

OK, calm down both of you.

We don't have this forum for back-and-forth arguments like this.

You are both intelligent and fully grown. So it is embarrassing to have to tell you to stop, but I...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

April 11th, 2022, 03:52 PM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

goodoboy, I agree with vmodus. I got the joke and...

goodoboy, I agree with vmodus. I got the joke and I thought it was funny, and you are making a good point in your last sentence. Your follow-up posts are funny too.

Some may not have gotten it...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

April 11th, 2022, 11:56 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

I understand. I struggle with the right words for...

I understand. I struggle with the right words for every single post. :)

Bob.

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

April 11th, 2022, 10:30 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

Numbers I have seen suggest the percentage is...

Numbers I have seen suggest the percentage is probably higher.

Yes.

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Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 26th, 2022, 01:03 PM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

This is a really good, solid look at the...

This is a really good, solid look at the differences between retail and institutional trading. The takeaway I see is that institutions have a much deeper bench, and can put more resources against a...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 26th, 2022, 12:35 PM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

I was initially going to write more about the...

I was initially going to write more about the Sharpe ratio, but then realized that what I cared about was more what Long-Term Capital Management's fate told us.

And in fact, as I remember very...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 26th, 2022, 10:14 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

I'm not bringing up the Sharpe ratio again to...

I'm not bringing up the Sharpe ratio again to discuss alternative ways to calculate return, but to expand on this mention by Mich62 of LTCM a little, even though this is sort of ancient history...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 25th, 2022, 06:03 PM

Replies: 315

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Posted By bobwest

Good. You can learn a lot in sim, but it's a...

Good. You can learn a lot in sim, but it's a totally different universe out in the wide world of real trading. :)

Bob.

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 25th, 2022, 10:41 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

Thank you for this very good post. It is right on...

Thank you for this very good post. It is right on topic for this discussion.

I particularly like the fact that you address the common idea (of disgruntled discretionary traders) that automated...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 25th, 2022, 07:17 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

This is important. There are traders who...

This is important.

There are traders who post here who use literally every conceivable method, some basically the opposite of others, and who are consistently profitable. They will have very...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 24th, 2022, 06:28 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

Thanks for this reference. I didn't mention it...

Thanks for this reference. I didn't mention it because I didn't know anything about it. :becky:

The Wikipedia article you reference is pretty dense, and I may need to go back to it to try to...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 24th, 2022, 05:47 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

This is an extremely strong post, worth serious...

This is an extremely strong post, worth serious thought.

I am not someone who thinks it is impossible to succeed in markets, but everyone should be aware that it is damn hard, and that anyone's...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 23rd, 2022, 11:12 AM

Replies: 315

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Posted By bobwest

I'm not going to be taking sides in this post,...

I'm not going to be taking sides in this post, just advising calm.

The question of what is really true about trading -- especially retail trading -- always has the potential to get people fired...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 22nd, 2022, 04:39 PM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

There's a lot you put into this post, mostly...

There's a lot you put into this post, mostly anger and venting about yourself, but also your confidence, which is good and which you'll need.

But two things:

1. You've been cautioned once about...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 22nd, 2022, 09:20 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

Views: 66,621

Posted By bobwest

I would normally want to be encouraging to...

I would normally want to be encouraging to someone attempting to succeed at anything, including trading, and what I am about to write here is not at all meant to discourage, just to convey the truth,...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 20th, 2022, 09:25 PM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

I did too, but I couldn't get Mike to change it....

I did too, but I couldn't get Mike to change it. It's hokey, but it still means something.

Fortunately, no one in my family ever saw me with that label, or I would not have lived it down. Now...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 20th, 2022, 08:47 PM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

The "legendary" label is applied, not chosen. ...

The "legendary" label is applied, not chosen.

It consists of:

- A certain number of total posts
- A certain ranking within the total membership based on "Thanks" received -- which is taken as...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

March 20th, 2022, 08:24 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

Views: 66,621

Posted By bobwest

Hi xsamanthax, No, no one is going to just...

Hi xsamanthax,

No, no one is going to just hand you the way to be a successful trader. There are people who claim to, and who lay out their supposed winning method, but in fact they seldom work....

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

January 29th, 2022, 06:55 AM

Replies: 315

Traders with 5-10 years of experience but still not profitable

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Posted By bobwest

Hi andrej, You are of course free to attempt...

Hi andrej,

You are of course free to attempt any way to foretell the future in order to make money in the markets. If you believe you can employ literally magical means to do so by...

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