Quote from SamGold:
Or at least that's what you think.
Here's an experiment: Buy a large piranha and put it inside a fish tank. Then you can sim 1000 times how you are going to grab it with your bare hand. Then go and grab the real piranha with your real bare hand inside the fish tank. Let me know how dinner went for the piranha.
Let us forget the piranha and come back to this topic.
Automated programs can do it on prices and patterns which give different results for the same set up .These programs turned $10 k into $150 k over 3 months.Each of the five winning participants started with $10,000 and each participants' software will trade automatically and has made over $100,000 in over 10 weeks, equivalent to 1,000% or an annualized 8,000 %.
The method is about trading probabilities without emotions , the probabilities are edged in favour of the method.If you can trade probabilities , you don't need to look at charts and play a game of piranhas.If automated programs can do it with a handicap , human beings can do it better
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95 % of those automated programs probably lost money .As a trader , work out your probabilities and trade unemotionally , the system I was testing/trading on sim had no emotions involved because out of 50 trades I expected to be wrong 30 % of the time , the other 35 made the money.
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This is not your type of trading , where you take a directional bet , the chart showed showed this and did the opposite with Piranhas on my bets ,and hope for good luck , every second your nerves get affected , you swear at the market or take it out on AP