Is trading Probabilistic or Deterministic ?

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Probabilistic: Price action is best characterized by formulating a probability function to describe various future outcomes.

Deterministic: Future price action is determined by the interaction of various observable variables.

A trader's whole approach to decision making and taking action in the market is dependant upon his acceptance of one or the other views of the market as set forth above.


I believe these two opposing views account for the animosity between some ET posters.


Just throwing it out for discussion.......
 
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Probabilistic: Price action is best characterized by formulating a probability function to describe various future outcomes.

Deterministic: Future price action is determined by the interaction of various observable variables.

A trader's whole approach to decision making and taking action in the market is dependant upon his acceptance of one or the other views of the market as set forth above.


I believe these two opposing views account for the animosity between some ET posters.


Just throwing it out for discussion.......
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Many traders believe that the best trades are taken with a high probability of success when all the "ducks line up in a row".

So when the variables setup for a good trade (point B), there is a high probability of it succeeding (point A).

JJ
 
Deterministic, probability is just a scoring mechanism for a deteministic event. Different deterministic events will have differring probabilities of occurence.
 
Quote from Arthur Deco:

Neither.

Egotistic.
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The only egos that exist are in the folks who think they are smarter than the markets based on "their" "anal"ysis. It's the system that wins not you.
 
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The only egos that exist are in the folks who think they are smarter than the markets based on "their" "anal"ysis. It's the system that wins not you.
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Stupid1: Hey Im long what do you think?
Ego1: Don't worry about it your good, the market should shoot up from here, the bulls are in control.

LOL LOL LOL
 
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Deterministic, probability is just a scoring mechanism for a deteministic event. Different deterministic events will have differring probabilities of occurence.
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Deterministic refers to those who believe that certain variables combine to give a perfect indication of a future outcome, though they would not agree that they are "predicting".

Probabilistic refers to those who are unsure of a particular future outcome, but recognize that several possibilities exist.
 
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