If you don't read Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, you'll be a naive trader?

[FredBloggs]

Quote from crgarcia:

If you don't read Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan (books by Taleb Nassim), you'll be a naive trader?

wrong.

ive read both several times and im still as dumb as the day is long.

 

[zdreg]

Quote from shikantaza:

Tre: livermore

he kind that blow their brains out with a handgun in a toilet after blowing up a fortune in the markets?.

a very small minority of ET posters will ever make a fortune in the 1st place. more commonly they will blow up pocket change.

 

[crgarcia]

Quote from CTan:

Then what will happen to those who haven't read Reminiscences of a stock operator?

What kind of traders will they be?

About only Taleb Nassim books adress the problem of randomness and inpredictability (and how to deal with it).

 

[R. Raskolnikov]

How do you deal with making up words?

Quote from crgarcia:

inpredictability (and how to deal with it).

 

[shikantaza]

Quote from R. Raskolnikov:

How do you deal with making up words?

Same as you deal with Boiled White Rice?.

 

[R. Raskolnikov]

You're still crying about this? Geez, that was hours ago, you need to learn to let things go

Quote from shikantaza:

Same as you deal with Boiled White Rice?.

 

[Debaser82]

As far as I am concerned the Black swan was crap.

The French are socialists, I used to work on Wall Street and America is the greatest country on earth.

There you have it, an entire book in one sentence.

 

[shikantaza]

Quote from R. Raskolnikov:

You're still crying about this? Geez, that was hours ago, you need to learn to let things go

I do not have any needs or wants, but it seems you do. Boiled White Rice has been good to me.

 

[R. Raskolnikov]

Still crying??? Wow, LoL

Quote from shikantaza:

I do not have any needs or wants, but it seems you do. Boiled White Rice has been good to me.

 

[zdreg]

Quote from Debaser82:

As far as I am concerned the Black swan was crap.

The French are socialists, I used to work on Wall Street and America is the greatest country on earth.

There you have it, an entire book in one sentence.

let's see if you say that after a transaction tax comes. instead of flipping stocks you may be flipping something else.