Recent content by fxtc

Great advice. That's exactly what I did 6 months ago and can now sleep normally again.

"Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think." -Joseph de la Vega

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” -George Orwell

"There is a concise formula for trading success: boldness and humility. The boldness to act on what you see with the conviction, and the humility to realize that what you see may not be all that is there." -Brett Steenbarger

"Markets are the perfect non-biased teachers of self-reflection and discipline. A survival rate has less to do with war and more to do with the preparation of war's outcome." -Jeremy Lyter

“Buy high, sell higher. Sell low, buy lower. That’s what the old saw about the making money in the market should read. To do otherwise is to be guilty of picking tops and bottoms. Both are deadly ego games.” -Edward Toppel, Zen in the Markets

“If you really believe in an uncertain outcome, then you also have to expect that virtually anything can happen. Otherwise, the moment you let your mind hold onto the notion that you know, you stop taking all of the unknown variables into consideration. Your mind won’t let you have it both...

"If history books were the key to riches, the Forbes 400 would consist of librarians." -Warren Buffett

"A smart man cannot follow another man blindly even though the other man is right, because you cannot have confidence and act on advice when you do not know what it is based on." -W.D.Gann

This has got to be the funniest post I've read on ET since I discovered this forum. Funniest because I can so relate to it... LOL :)

“A vicious property of a Black Swan is its surprise effect: at a given time of observation there is no convincing element pointing to an increased likelihood of the event.” -Nassim Taleb

The successfull warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee

Lawyers, doctors, engineers and professional men who make a success spend anywhere from two to five years' time studying and preparing to practice their profession before they begin making any money. Men enter into speculation in Wall Street without any preparation. They have made no study of it...

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail" -Abraham Maslow

Myth: Show me a good loser and I'll show you a born loser. Fact: Show me a good loser and I'll show you a (potentially) good Trader. -Bemac