Do females make better traders?

Quote from rubberbird_50:

jeez jack, do you have to spam every thread?

why dont you hit the hershy highway?
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I'm on the hershey highway. It's fun.

Don't peek at those Excel spread sheets, rubberbird.
 
Quote from peilthetraveler:

This question can easily be answered by looking at the top 100 traders. I remember reading them in trader monthly (before they went out of business) back in 2005 or 2006. As i read I noticed that out of these 100 top traders, only 1 was a woman.

Thats your answer right there.
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Be careful how you interpret statistics. If 200,000 men are career traders participating in this report and 30 women are career traders participating in this report and only 1 out of 100 women are among the "top" traders (and we're talking about those who wish to be known, not top traders overall who quietly make their profits), then you most certainly cannot deduce that men are better traders than women by this limited reported sample.
 
Quote from peilthetraveler:

This question can easily be answered by looking at the top 100 traders. I remember reading them in trader monthly (before they went out of business) back in 2005 or 2006. As i read I noticed that out of these 100 top traders, only 1 was a woman.

Thats your answer right there.


I've also noticed similar trends in other areas of thinking where women are not as good as men. Like chess for instance. The top males players have ratings several hundred points higher than the best female chess player ever.

Some women can excell more than SOME men, but thats only on a case by case scenario. I believe if you take any event where both men & women know nothing about the said event and make them learn it on the spot, the man will pull ahead of the woman everytime.


For instance. If you took a rubiks cube into a part of the world where nobody had ever seen or heard of one, you can be sure that it would be the men that figured out how to solve it first.
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One thing is for sure: women do not start mags like Trader's Monthly..... LOL
 
Women can never match men in areas that take:

a)High Risk
b)Profound confidence bordering on "macho" and heavy duty analytical work.

Women are more likely to avoid this field altogether because it is not "safe"
 
Quote from rubberbird_50:

actually, those worksheets were interesting, and i thought my post was out of line, so i pulled it. sorry i didnt get it out before you saw it
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I have a sensing device on my computer that homes in on posts like yours.

There are several OCD's on ET that are really humorous; my sensor brings them up in pink or heliotrope.
 
Quote from IShopAtPublix:

Women can never match men in areas that take:

a)High Risk
b)Profound confidence bordering on "macho" and heavy duty analytical work.

Women are more likely to avoid this field altogether because it is not "safe"
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After reading all of the posts I feel that none of you guys who posted have been full time traders for any length of time. I've traded full time 14 years.

A few observations:

To the guy who posted 99 out of the top 100 traders in Traders Monthly were guys. And what was the respective percentages of male to female traders to begin with?

Next, given a 90% failure rate in trading who makes up that 90% mostly? Male or female?

As one who has traded in an office for a number of years -- who is more bull headed and refuses to take losses? A guy or a woman. A guy every time. It's a macho thing.

Tell you what. If you took 50 female traders and 50 male traders I'd take the cumulative net P/L of each and take the females. And I'm a guy.
 
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