Quote from sKaLpZ:
The bottom line is: If you have a trading structure that wins even though a trade is in drawdown.
Losers don't have this system in place.
This is an idea that seems to be widespread in retail spot fx; besides getting lured into the bucket-shop racket with high leverage and tiny trading lots, there seems to be this sort of myth where one can get away with never taking a loser as long as they are "hedged". Like if your long EUR/USD position starts bleeding, buy GBP/USD to "offset" that position. If you read a few of those fx forums you'll see these "can't take a loss" spread positions put on all the time. It's a clever marketing ploy that appeals to the losing trader's ego, which makes sense as it's likely a good portion of spot fx traders are former stock daytraders who were shafted by pdt regs and now have no where else to trade.
