I have no idea about your trading system - however, the rest of the stuff you posted is pretty spot-on imo.....
I believe the first tenet of Buddhists is "Life is suffering" - not in a fatalistic way, but as a motivation to sublimate what would only be seen as bad into a learning experience.
There is, however, the story from India of an Indra who freed up the locked-up waters of the world by throwing a lightning bolt on a drought monster, and after the world was refreshed, thought - "What a great boy am I" and behaved that way.
A Blue-Boy god appears to enlighten him, and as the story goes...
"While the boy was talking, an army of ants parades across the floor. The boy laughs when he sees them, and Indra's hair stands on end, and he says to the boy, "Why do you laugh?" The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."
Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) And so the boy points to the ants and says, "Former Indras all. Through many lifetimes they rise from the lowest conditions to the highest illumination. And then they drop their thunderbolt on a monster, and they think, 'What a good boy am I.' And down they go again."
From Joseph Campbell's "The Power Of Myths"
http://www.wisdomportal.com/Enlightenment/IndraUniverses.html