Quote from OPTIONAL777:
If you understand streak probabilities, yes I will make that bet with you.
Take Barry Bonds, a proven commodity. Say he is in a slump. What are the odds with each pitch, given his long term record, of hitting a home run each successive strike out?
Point is, that most traders, professional traders, professional money managers, proven commodities, will have good and bad streaks. They have learned how to manage their own streakiness.
I would prefer to have my money managed by a proven winner in a bad spell, than bet on him if he has been on a hot streak.
Remember Kobe's hot streak? What followed? Average performance, if a bit sub-par for him.
Why is it that human beings (apart from Tiger Woods) typically run hot and cold?
A lot has to do with their psychology, and just the natural order of things.
Schindler has no system that I can see, he was foolish enough to admit that he looks at threads in ET for ideas on how to trade. That is a system? Sheesh. If I had my money with the guy, I would pull it immediately upon hearing that.
My contention is that 99% of trading is mental, and 1% the mechanical system. It takes a real machine of a trader to go through a losing streak and not flinch on the next trade, and I don't think baby Schindler has the balls for it. My god, the dude had to go to the bathroom several times during the on-line chat because he was so nervous.
His puny little fund is not proven so he really is not a good example, but I would put my money with Peter Lynch, Buffett, Niederhoffer or others after a losing streak beyond their historic averages.