Recent content by bagherra

Contrarian Investing There is a good book titled (appropriately) 'Contrarian Investing', by Anthony M. Gallea and William Patalon III, published in 1998 by Prentice Hall. One guy is a money manager with a major firm, and the other is a business reporter. They lay out the case for...

Kiwi, I think hylt is pointing out that NLP has not been proven effective in the laboratory. This doesn't mean, of course, that it doesn't work for some people some of the time. I have had extensive experience with NLP, and have found that it seems to work for some things--see the NLP threads...

Position Sizing Cassiopeia, The examples at the end of Chapter 12 of 'TYWTFF', in which Tharp applies the simple 55/21 breakout system to the 30 stocks in the DJIA over 5.5 yrs, is meant to be some kind of proof. In it, he holds the other variables steady [entries, stops, exits...] and varies...

Position Sizing Kiwi, In Chapter 12 'What Do You Mean Position Sizing' of 'Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom', first edition, Tharp describes a 55/21 breakout system applied with various amounts of money. At the close of paragraph two, pg. 294, he says: 'essentially, you should now...

Money management is not just about how much of a loss you're willing to take on a given trade, it's about when you should add to a position, i.e...position sizing, as explained in TYWTFF. According to VT, position sizing is what separates the losers from the winners in trading over the long...