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Forum: Psychology and Money Management

May 18th, 2011, 03:59 PM

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Posted By Myshkin

I was just throwing out an analogy dude, perhaps...

I was just throwing out an analogy dude, perhaps a weak one, that trading is gambling just like poker/blackjack is gambling and the "loaded" dice are your strong edge in the trade:hang3:. Anyway,...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

May 18th, 2011, 03:30 PM

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Posted By Myshkin

LOL Trading is definitely difficult and sure,...

LOL Trading is definitely difficult and sure, there are no oracles of trading, picking every bottom and top (unless you are fading my trades on some days;-)
I was merely trying to make the point...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

May 18th, 2011, 03:16 PM

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Posted By Myshkin

First off, I am not throwing down a challenge and...

First off, I am not throwing down a challenge and I am quite certain that you are far better at calculating probabilities on the fly but try to keep things in context, brotherman, as my "probability"...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

May 18th, 2011, 02:06 AM

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Posted By Myshkin

Top poker players and blackjack card counters are...

Top poker players and blackjack card counters are gambling and they are increasing the size of their bets according to when the odds/probability ARE in their favor much like when a high PROBABILITY...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

May 17th, 2011, 11:29 PM

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Posted By Myshkin

Absolutely true, trading IS gambling in that you...

Absolutely true, trading IS gambling in that you are putting money on an UNCERTAIN future. Whether automated or discretionary, it is a game of probability, pure and simple.

EVERY day of trading...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

May 16th, 2011, 10:04 PM

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Posted By Myshkin

Truly a good argument, especially because it IS...

Truly a good argument, especially because it IS backed up mathematically (my backtesting likewise confirms that scaling out, in ALMOST all strats is suboptimal).

However, in real world trading,...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

May 16th, 2011, 01:38 AM

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Posted By Myshkin

Hey josh, it's hard to get the attitude of...

Hey josh, it's hard to get the attitude of someone from written posts and yes, I definitely appreciated that your opinion was just that with your extended spelled out version of IMVHO (i'm too...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

May 15th, 2011, 09:00 PM

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Posted By Myshkin

These are just opinions and IMHO, it doesn�t make...

These are just opinions and IMHO, it doesn�t make sense to throw out a blanket statement like� it is mathematically unsound to scale out� when you are not considering all the different types of...

Forum: Psychology and Money Management

May 15th, 2011, 02:41 AM

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Posted By Myshkin

FWIW, I scale out but very rarely scale in...

FWIW, I scale out but very rarely scale in (trading individual financial instruments, i.e. not correlated pairs, which i would definitely scale in IF i was still using that technique).

My...

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