Recent content by Expect Positive

My conclusion has 30 years of data, 30+ futures and 20,000 trades. What actual data do you have?

Conventional Wisdom says you're right. Actual historical testing says you're wrong.

Why bother trading with such a small account? You should be working on funding the account and THOROUGHLY backtesting.

I've done the Series 3 and 65 and CFA I & II... Curious: Anybody's thoughts on how they compare to the 7?

I think March's results are interesting the same way May 2010 results were.

"I don't need your money."

Is the Nikkei down 10% or worse?

I think some people say "the market is never wrong" when they mean "don't immediately make excuses for yourself when you've lost money."

Market is never wrong... I don't like that saying. You make money when the market is wrong. When you make a positive risk-adjusted return over a large sample of trades, you were right when the mark was wrong.

I'm not a "big trader," but I did post frequently on here. I suppose I just got bored with it (posting, not trading).

Unbreakable

great stuff.

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