Recent content by Dragonfly84

I think Solon would have a good answer here: “Call no trader successful til she dies”.

I didn't post a lot, because I was waiting for an opportunity to sell my new revolutionary trading system or to offer my coaching services. And you must realize this thread is an excellent oportunity for me to doing that.

Curious, the trading books became more useful for me just when I started to search for flaws in the systems or in the way the content is presented. A thing that particularly makes me laugh is when some pundit talks about his infallible system and you read just to find that the infallible...

In my first month, I lost 10k daytrading futures and I sworn I would never have a bad month daytrading in my life. Seeing it now, I think the only way for me to fulfilling my oath is never ever daytrading in my life. You can stay days and weeks being profitable, then one day you awake...

Very funny, m'boy. Very funny.

What is funny about this is that every time I read a book or try to use an author's idea I start to lose more than I am used to lose in futures day-trading. That makes me thing that trading is a strange activity where less you study, a better professional you are. That also makes me think that...

A machine is a dumb thing and for a long time we will be smarter than they. When Deep Blue wins Kasparov, or a calculator does a sum much more faster than a human, what is actually happening is a human with a machine being smarter than a human. A day will come when machines will be more...