Hunting & gathering mindsets

[Boy Plunger]

Quote from Sam123:

[ Once the animal has the food, it eats it with little risk. ]

I disagree. If you are the Alpha male you eat with less risk. All other predators can lose prey to stronger predators.


alex

 

[John Merchant]

I myself prefer the scavenging analogy. Rural Texas roadkill chili is my specialty. But that is nothing compared to the best strategy of all, the one most practiced on the Street: theft.

 

[trade4succes]

Quote from Rearden Metal:

I could swear, I read that line in Market Wizards.

weinstein, like a cheetah

 

[Boy Plunger]

Quote from trade4succes:

weinstein, like a cheetah

trade4, yup!



....Don't bother with statistics that show a majority of cheetah lose 80% of KILLS! Just as long as the poster has an analogy to guide him in trading like a predator uses analogies to kill. Oh wait, the latter is not true. How can the former be true?

edit: my apologies! i misread your post. i think analogies are useful in trading if a really smart and educated trader has to find a way to teach a really stupid and uneducated trader; If one cannot find expressions in math and language to establish a learning connection and has to resort to analogies. Your entries are not prey. Your exits and not gathering crops/prey. Any biting of the neck is done in the men's bathroom by a trader to a prostitute at the NYSE and only when the boss is out to lunch.

alex