The sad truth about trading is

Quote from lurefo:

Disagree. While I know that many guys here are either paper traders (Roman Candle, etc..) or losing/mediocre traders (Mandelbrotset, etc..), I am not sure they would benefit from adopting a less active type of investment. They will still have to take decisions, and it is likely that what currently prevents them from being profitable (usually their ego - check their numerous posts thru ET in which they give trading lessons to others while they are hardly, if not at all, profitable), will still prevent them from making money regardless of the type of investment they choose.


I agree on this point, you get more free time for other activities.

The downside is that your profit potential - % wise - is much much smaller than what you can get in trading.

Keep in mind that most people come to trading because they don't have enough capital to live off passive investment returns. So, they would probably better stop trading/investing entirely.
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Nice to see you trolling after my posts lurefo, and after the way I thorougly kicked your ass on the ES Journal, I'm not even remotely surprised. :D

I'll tell you what, Index "clueless" piker, if someone believes that fat fingers trigger market selloffs (like lurefo stupidly does) well then they would probably be better off using the concepts that you expouse here (which are the mainstay of investors who can't learn how to find a market outperformance edge). :p

Otherwise, you're just the blind (clueless) leading the blind (stupid).

IOW, Standard fare for ET. :eek:
 
searched the files??? no look a few pages back in this thread. it's not a file just text. simple.

Quote from ammo:

i searched the et files and didnt find your system?
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Quote from MandelbrotSet:


I'll tell you what, Index "clueless" piker, if someone believes that fat fingers trigger market selloffs (like lurefo stupidly does) well then they would probably be better off using the concepts that you expouse here (which are the mainstay of investors who can't learn how to find a market outperformance edge). :p

Otherwise, you're just the blind (clueless) leading the blind (stupid).

IOW, Standard fare for ET. :eek: [/B]
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Hmm. I'm not sure what I've done to elicit such malevolent drivel from you by promoting the logical case for passive investing.

However I'm pretty sure it's a consistent character flaw borne of insecurity that somehow you feel the need to engage in name calling to defend your weak position.

Shall I expect more baseless bluster on your part?
 
Quote from TraderZones:

I am 90% sure you folks are debating with a multi-multi alias (OP)
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Why the conspiratorial conjecture?

After all it stands to reason that since many people have come to recognize the superiority of passive investing over active, there should be more than one poster here entertaining that same concept.

Truthfully, it seems some of you here appear AFRAID of the message by the nature of your reactions.
 
Quote from Index piker:

Most of you guys would do better profit wise by adopting passive index investing than trading.

The added benefit is greatly reduced stress and more free time to devote to time consuming tasks such as quality home-life or new employment skills.


So if you are having trouble finding profitability, are new to trading you owe it to yourself to investigate the superiority of passive investing.
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you need about $100,000 or more to do that..not the hopes of a $5,000.00 ES or EUR/USD trader
 
Quote from increasenow:

you need about $100,000 or more to do that..not the hopes of a $5,000.00 ES or EUR/USD trader
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Yes I'm sure part of the appeal of trading is the same reason late night get rich quick infomercials are popular.

Lots of need and lots of people trying to cash-in selling the tools essential for the pipe dream of huge sudden riches.

Reality is a much harder and starker sell.
 
Quote from talontrading:

Several years and the return was very impressive.
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In the absence of a number and some documents, impressive most likely means something like:

"We were down ONLY 10% while SP was down 20%". "That is double the SP"....

:p
 
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