Recent content by boza

whenever I bring the idea up with regular people it seems to catch them off guard or smth. however I don't talk to a lot of people. they don't have to be offline people but people that you didn't have to go out of your way to find (like going on a forum made specifically for traders)

yeah

what can I say? The efficient market hypothesis appears to have some real weight to it but a random elitetrader poster has a different idea. It's a tough decision who to trust.

how is it absurd or are you just interested in drive-by insults?

The price of btc has fallen from 20k to 10k purely because of some insignificant news, shortly after the Bitcoin futures were introduced. I would guess this is because of hedge fund short selling. The moment the futures were introduced I figured it would be harder to trade btc because hedge...

yeah it definitely is competitive. that is why I feel rather hopeless about this. The banks I would be competing against have enough money to hire some of the best traders in the world.

And what's stopping this cycle from happening forever?

What about applying technical analysis to the equity curve of the system?

Everyone says that you shouldn't curve fit a system perfectly because it will fail. So why not perfectly curve fit a system and then just do the opposite of that system?

I'm sorry im not a tax attorney

why should i have to lose $50000+ to impress you people?

thanks for the replies, but i was hoping this thread would be about technical analysis strategies and managing emotions when trading, not about me and how much i lost. so let's try to make it be about that. also i get that 1000 doesn't seem like much to people here but that was 4 weeks of my...