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OP, a big LOL at you. I predict that at some point in the very near future you will lose most, if not all, of your money! :D

Consider a trivially simple example. Buy 500 shares of a theoretical instrument for $1, buy 100 shares of that same instrument for $2. Now, reduce it to its simplest form. How many shares have you actually bought, and for what price? Despite the fact that you have carried out two trades, you...

:confused: :confused: :confused: If you're calculating variance, you're doing so on preexisting data. The trade(s) are already done.

You can spend the whole day trading grapes, cherries, apples, oranges, etc. At the end of the day, however, you have traded, once, a fruit salad which is either tasty or not. :D :D

The aggregate sum of any combination of instruments traded reduces to a single theoretical instrument traded. Either way you are reduced to either a winning or a losing state at the end of the day.

So what. The average consumer should not be buying house. The average consumer doesn't make enough money. Leading up to the housing crisis that number was at 65%. Don't buy what you can't afford, dummies.

Urrrrrr...... I read no further than the first sentence of that article. "Simulation ....random ...." Why is the result of that particular study surprising? If it's random, it's a zero sum game - negative sum after accounting for fees.

Brilliant. Shall we euthanize everybody below the age of about 29. After all, we're all parasites in the first two decades of our lives. Keep in mind that a big chunk of the parasites don't remain parasitic indefinitely.

Jeesh, Jack! If you spent as much time trading real money as you do annotating charts and writing enormous posts, you might actually be a really wealthy man .... Or broke! :D :D

May ET save my sinful soul!

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! THE DAYS ARE GETTING SHORTER! THE DAYS ARE GETTING SHORTER. SOON WE'LL ALL BE IN THE DARK JUST LIKE HarbingerQ!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

There is one word to describe people like you who make such claims without any attempt at evidence: LOOPY! :D :D

schrodinger's cat :D

Blah! A very expensive day for me today.

Short the FED and you'll lose your shorts!

In other words can I really call it a winning trade if I say, "Hey I hope this goes in my favor in the short term, but if it doesn't I'll hang on to the trade until it does go in my favor?" This is by the way a very effective way to get a positive trade ratio until of course the trade goes...

There is something in this data that is overlooked I think. I would suggest that traders generally hold on to the trade for too long, winning or losing. Since march, I have a win rate on the EUR/USD of 100%. I haven't lost a single trade. However, in every case I have watched as the trade...

My God what an ego! Losing money again, isn't that right, Blow?

I agree. I started following that 10 to 1 rule when I opened the Questrade account. I have been profitable ever since. 3 to 1 is available in my margin account for stock trading, but I rarely go above 1.7 to 1.

A little of Hershey's manure should solve the problem.:D