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Maybe that's what colonics and supplements do to you :D Here are some whole foods vegans for comparison: 71-year-old: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=683taLTfc1c 70-year-old...

On this I totally agree. The ratios of the vast majority of people in the chronically sick USA often exceeds 15:1, thanks mainly to oils and "factory farming". Oil is added to everything; even nuts (a major source of oil) are roasted in...oil. If you want EFA's from eggs and meats, you have...

Although a whole foods plant-based diet is a vegan diet, a vegan diet is not a whole foods plant-based diet. Vegan diets can be pure junk food. Also vegan diets can emphasize supplements, many of which are dangerous for a variety of reasons. Vegan diets can cause chronic disease just like the...

My personal experience demonstrated the same statistic. Less than 5% have a defined tradable edge.

To me, an edge in trading is a favorable probability of profit over a series of trades after commissions and average slippage. How that edge is derived isn't important, but the ability to follow the trading plan that produces the edge (what you call "conviction") is crucial. Suppose I have...

Hi Wiz, I posted about this on another thread a while back. Although a bit less dangerous than Atkins' diet, the Zone diet isn't anti-inflammatory. Animal-based foods, oils, and refined grains and sugars are highly inflammatory and contribute to the development of most chronic disease...

Based on everything I've learned here, what happens is this: When the market is just about to break to a new all-time high, all the buy and hold investors who did not get shaken out during the Crash of 2008, plus everyone still holding who bought between March 2009 and the moment that price...

The phrase "...you should believe in your system..." is the reason there are trading coaches like Mark Douglas. What if you have an edge, but either can't bring yourself to trade it, or you react to price movement long after a valid trade was signaled and make errors that erase or invert your...

Oh yeah, the advertising was mind-blowing. But how about this: "For example, she spent hours in reading a 250-page thread just to better understand an indicator that caught her eyes. During her pursuit, she had a stress attack. Her doctor had recommended her to take a break."

Tactic #2 is my most favorable trading setup. Tactic #1 works well in instruments that have a lot of inertia, such as CL or strong momentum stocks, and it requires a strong trend, not a wide channeling trend that cuts through a 20EMA. I wouldn't use Tactic #1 with index futures, for the very...

Based on my personal experience, self-sabotage and procrastination are not symptoms of "fear of success", they're symptoms of fear of failure. Procrastination allows a person to remain in a state of hope ("I can accomplish X whenever I make the decision to; I just haven't decided to yet.") and...

I don't know if he overcame his own trading problem. Just because was described in 2000 as an "active trader" doesn't mean he was/is a profitable trader.

Although I can't answer for Mr. Douglas, the phrase "got a job as a broker with Merrill Lynch..." indicates he probably traded full time because he quit his existing full time job to do this.

Without getting into any specifics of your trading methodologies, do you know the average win rate and risk:reward ratio for each of the setups you trade? What is lame about your office job?

If I have a serious drinking problem, I want help from someone who had a serious drinking problem and overcame it. If I have a serious trading problem, I want help from someone who had a serious trading problem and overcame it.

His first book was published in 1990 and he started his consulting firm during that time period. According to About the Author, he is "an active trader and president of Trading Behavior Dynamics, Inc., which develops seminars and training programs on trading psychology for brokerage firms...

Not at all. Just as the rats learned that if they always went the same way they'd get rewarded more often than not, I learned that if I always trade a certain way, I get rewarded more often than not. When I tried to trade based on a belief I could predict the outcome of individual trades...

His trading experience is described in the Preface to his book Trading in the Zone: "I started trading in 1978. At the time, I was managing a commercial casualty insurance agency in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. I had a very successful career and thought I could easily transfer that...

Cornix posted this a while back on his blog and it helped me stop trying to predict what the majority of market participants were going to do next: http://www.cornixtrading.com/2012/07/rats-vs-yale-students-randomness-psychology/ Over my 5 years of trading, I learned that my "feelings"...

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