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what you need is a robust process, an approach that has a high likelihood of producing positive returns over time. most people don’t have that and they are either unaware of that or chose to ignore it.

people who think they know do tell and in the process do more harm than good. one of the most famous rules ‘cut your losses short’ has been told by people who thought they knew for decades. the result: high body count of plungers who jumped into the game emboldened by that sage advice. try...

Those who know do not tell simply because talking at someone does not result in a change of behavior.

Those who know do not tell; Those who tell do not know. formulate an approach -> test it -> collect and analyze data -> draw conclusions repeat the process until you stumble onto a system that shows favorable results.

i think most of these chat room operators make money by herding followers into pre-selected thinly traded stocks and then dumping all over them as soon as a they( the promoters) show a profit and/or by collecting subscription fees.

we all hope or assume that in the future markets we swim in will behave like or resemble the markets we ‘know’ math, intuition, praying, rabbit’s foot are tools used to develop some degree of confidence about how future may unfold i think math based empirical research offers best results

mental process of forming an ‘expectancy’ in trading or in any other field is not an attempt to say what will happen, it’s an attempt to say what may or may not happen with certain probabilities (very often intuitive) attached to each possible outcome. in trading, i take ‘positive expectancy’...

you are experiencing angst over the unpredictability of trading because you have unrealistic expectations. it’s not trading that is hurting you, it’s your own expectations.

I think generally ‘potential energy’ of the market is far greater to the downside simply because the value of speculative capital positioned to the long side is many times that of what is short or ‘sitting on the sidelines’ ready to be deployed. OP is specifically talking about the broad stock...