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This comes from the age-old military wisdom: No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. The market can't exactly be regarded as 'the enemy' but it will do unexpected things and only adaptable traders will stay on top of it.

I'm not NoDoji but there is a general answer: It takes as long as it takes for you to get a technical trading plan that you trust. I've lost track of how many posters I've seen post something like "I have a great plan but I just can't stick to it." Rule #1: stop being self-delusional...

Excellent points. My question is What time frame do these CTAs operate in? " central bank actions disrupt the long-running market trends they like to follow." Granted you don't want your CTA to be some daytrading high-roller but if the, say, eom (end-of-month) time frame isn't working...

Don't get your panties in a twist, princess, I'm just asking perfectly reasonable questions in a non-ranting way. Sorry if your time of month has cancelled what few powers of reason you occasionally possess.

"Sen. Ted Cruz Wowing Them In Iowa" Can even one of you reichtards explain how a half-Cuban from Canada is legally qualified to be President of the USA? Bonus points if your explanation doesn't resurrect the birther horseshit about Obama being a half-Kenyan from Kenya. He was born in...

Seriously if you don't know the answer to your question, you should leave trading and never look back.

So gullible. :p http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/capital-beltway-shutdown-all-a-ploy-trucker-says/2013/10/08/1e446572-3033-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html

+1 What I've noticed is that they can never assign a number to "high probability." It's just a buzz phrase somebody created because he thought it sounded cool and implied competence.

http://www.financialwebring.org/gummy-stuff/kelly-ratio.htm Use half-Kelly size for two or more stocks.

A better question would be: why do you think they think so? Where did you get this factoid from? AFAIK most of the people don't even know what a time series is, much less whether or not they "work". I suspect what you're really talking about is time series analysis, which works just fine...

No wonder you're a raging jackhole. Professional gambler. That explains a lot. It makes me laugh when idiots screw up the expression 'turn their noses up.' :D

I gave solid evidence proving the dictionary is flawed. Not useless but definitely flawed, which means critical thinking is required when using it. Only Princess SplawnDarts would ignore the actual evidence-based argument made to show her spoiled-brat petulance about nothing pertinent.

Your absolute faith in the dictionary is comical. The dictionary defines a god as a deity. The dictionary also defines a deity as a god. Common sense calls this a circular definition. The dictionary doesn't know any better. Most human activities worth doing involve some risks. Should...

And you don't get to redefine trading as just another form of gambling just because you'd like to. Gambling is rigid and confined, trading is open ended. The Kelly criterion for gambling is simple, the Kelly criterion for trading is much more complicated. Different trend traders can all...

You're new so maybe you're not familiar with the trading definition of gambling: taking unjustified risks. Casino craps, roulette, slots, etc. are all gambling activities and they all have negative expectations. Most blackjack players have negative expectation because they at best know...

Are you seriously claiming gamblers never Martingale?

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+100 These "masters of trade" are the most overrated mofos around. Talk about not living up to all the hype. :mad:

What else do you think the teabaggers are trying to do? They want to replace what we have with a pluto-theocracy, or perhaps a theo-plutocracy. Anything but a democracy.

Are you whining? This guy manually backtested over 10000 trades. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=278386&highlight=10000 You can't do a few hundred?