Recent content by zupcon

Years ago I used to trade a method that had a very high win rate, partially because it was a great method, and partially because it had an asymetric reward to risk ratio with stops larger than targets. The occassional loss really used to trouble me, and consequentially I struggled to trade the...

Would that include totally random systems that made money purely by random chance ? Take a look at the quarterly NFA statistics, around 30% of retail traders are profitable over the 3 month reporting period, and thats exactly what you might expect to find by random chance. I'm not sure that...

Perhaps jack having proactively gone out of his way to minimize luck, would care to donate the chunk of luck that he's not using, I will quite happily take it off his hands, hey I'll even pay a generous rate for it. I've spent the last 10 years learning to capitalize on good luck, but then I...

Nasim Taleb's book is a rare gem in an ocean of stinking effluent, and there's not really a lot more to be said I'm not sure who all these people who attribute success to randomness actually are. There's taleb, Mlodinow , Mandelbrot, I'm not sure who else we can add to the list I've been...

ignorance and supidity great thread btw, but I suspect way over most peoples heads around here

seriously... get your eyes tested