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Understand what's really happening here. The problem with the conclusion is that the best traders are better rewarded by hedge funds. Claude Shannon was one of the best traders back in the day, but he is more known for getting good long-term results based on fundamentals than for his...

Use a trailing stop loss that works well in back-testing of your system. If your system is based exclusively on fundamentals (i.e. what the stock is worth), you may want a much larger loss than if your system is based exclusively on technical analysis (i.e. predicting market direction). Also...