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Yoda: "Much anger in this one." Steve.

> To Steve > "It appears you are not accounting for the performance of either the market > or the stock's sector. People that follow the 50/30/20 rule would say you > are operating with only 20% of the available data." > > You are quite correct in saying that my trading doesn't directly...

I'll say this once, and you can either believe it or disbelieve it. It's the end of this particular discussion as far as I'm concerned. I am not Grob, and I am not Jack. That's about as clear as I can be. Steve.

Hello VTTrader, It appears you are not accounting for the performance of either the market or the stock's sector. People that follow the 50/30/20 rule would say you are operating with only 20% of the available data. I suspect your possible "blow out" is a feature of not following the...

Hi Grob, You are correct that there is not always a way to make money safely in a market. People that don't know that are at risk, and they usually do not even know they are at risk. The optimal behavior during such a time is usually not to participate. Large traders, who are paid to...

madf, What is optimal is not dependent on the whims of the investor. You are interjecting your emotions in to equations that do not have room for them. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, regardless of how you feel about it. I did allow for investor whims when I...

Any Holy Grail would have to be both profitable and optimal. Some people think they have found it because they are profitable. I say IT because their can only be ONE optimal way, so you are either optimal, or you are not. Said profitable people make a second mistake, and this is the whopper...

I think that cutting losers is a good idea, while a better idea is not to buy one. Of course we can't know for sure what the future is going to be, but we can learn from it's past behavior - right? Just like some people usually act a certain way, you can anticipate their actions. You...