Flash Crash Trader has severe case of Asperger's Syndrome

If you want to see a group of people suffering from Asperger's, attend a big chess tournament, they flock to chess like no other sport. They can remember their games from 30 years ago, all 63 moves or more but relationship and socially many have great problems acting normal. They would make great traders because all they think about is where they went wrong and what was right, that's how the chess masters (USCF 2260+ and USCF 2500) and Grand Masters acted, pulling out chess tournament notes from 1980 "this was the game against Larry Christiansen I should have won!" or Jeremy Silman.
 
Handle123 said:
lol, I use to play chess, I use to keep stats on my play as well, I rather get paid to play and keep stats like trading

and yet money is not why I play, more of way of keeping score, I often think people would do better if they didn't value money
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I took up chess club in Middle School (in your days, it was called Junior High), I was very average in it. I don't like technically thinking too much or hard.
I'd rather play PC action/adventure games back then.

Chess suits you well, East Texas...with you being an algo/automatic/formula/systematic trader.
Me, on the otherhand, like the adventurer risk element...part art, part science...discretionary trading the daily macro broad market chart.
2018 ET. o_O`
 
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Normally chess is kind of boring. But can be interesting when you add 1 min time limits. 5 min time limits is just as good.

Chess is a game where the best defense is often times not doing anything. It's a game where every time you advance but at the cost of weakening your defense. Reason why games can lead into a draw. Neither side want to lose. So it gets boring to watch this type of play.

Therefore, I propose chess should add new rules that both side put up money. And you only win if you get checkmate. If a draw both size loses money and it get donated to charity. This would make chess competitive with sport and poker. Hehe.
 
lawrence-lugar said:
I took up chess club in Middle School (in your days, it was called Junior High), I was very average in it. I don't like technically thinking too much or hard.
I'd rather play PC action/adventure games back then.

Chess suits you well, East Texas...with you being an algo/automatic/formula/systematic trader.
Me, on the otherhand, like the adventurer risk element...part art, part science...discretionary trading the daily macro broad market chart.
2018 ET. o_O`
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You and H123 seemed more suited for Band Camp.
 
lawrence-lugar said:
I took up chess club in Middle School (in your days, it was called Junior High), I was very average in it. I don't like technically thinking too much or hard.
I'd rather play PC action/adventure games back then.

Chess suits you well, East Texas...with you being an algo/automatic/formula/systematic trader.
Me, on the otherhand, like the adventurer risk element...part art, part science...discretionary trading the daily macro broad market chart.
2018 ET. o_O`
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Actually, when I grew up "middle school", it was part of grade school, there was no division as it is now. And we also had split classes where one half was 3rd and other half 4th, we use to have up to 50-60 kids in one classroom, growing up Catholic back then was all about dictatorship and they were all unhappy nuns with steel pointers, more for closet Sadists till time for school and could get away with capital punishment on the boys, we were evil. We didn't have computers back then, I didn't even use a pen till 6th grade and until 6th grade, went to bed at 7pm. We had chores staring at age 4, games we played were sticks and stones and of course baseball, football and hockey, played war a good deal with sticks and stones, lots of trips to local doctor and he did make house calls in the 60s. We grew up like men where didn't need lawyers, handshake was law. You violate handshake, you can expect to be beaten up, eye for an eye, much better life back then. Had too many adventures working for our government when I was younger, never had time to play on computers and never wanted to learn how to program-poor decision there.

I don't live in East Texas, I travel to visit a farm I lease out, but live in West Texas, dry desert conditions, lots of illegals. Ole.

I believe discretionary traders are rule based/systematic, otherwise you be throwing darts, you might contend you don't have rules, but in programming-I call it variances where it does not have to take a certain target based on to the left of now, I believe whatever you do, with right programmer, can be programmed. But many programmers can't program correctly as they don't have your charting capabilities. You have to learn manually first to become expert level, and too often people are not multi functional.

Good trading to you Sir.

RRY16 said:
You and H123 seemed more suited for Band Camp.
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What is Band camp? I played violin, don't remember any bands? But do enjoy rock violin. Met Lindsey in 2005-very talented violinist, she taken violin to new heights.
 
RabidTrader said:
If you want to see a group of people suffering from Asperger's, attend a big chess tournament, they flock to chess like no other sport. They can remember their games from 30 years ago, all 63 moves or more but relationship and socially many have great problems acting normal. They would make great traders because all they think about is where they went wrong and what was right, that's how the chess masters (USCF 2260+ and USCF 2500) and Grand Masters acted, pulling out chess tournament notes from 1980 "this was the game against Larry Christiansen I should have won!" or Jeremy Silman.
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'Chess Life', the magazine of the US chess federation,used to have in the late eighties ads from financial companies that were looking for strong chess players to hire. As far as I remember, a few of them indeed gor hored and quitted chess (GM Max Dlugy was one of them). As of today, the strong GM Nakamura is told to be a good option trader.
 
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