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trading, is very much like making love to a beautiful woman
By which I suppose you mean that a lot of people come on here and talk about it, but very few people actually do it?
trading, is very much like making love to a beautiful woman
trading, is very much like making love to a beautiful woman
This is a very good point, not all edges are scalable, ccalping illiquid markets at size for example is likely to prove frustrating. In my case my edge would be scalable, and the executioners axe is always hovering over me.I take your point but there is an element of trading size here. One of the best traders I have seen who used to frequent this site had a great and consistent edge. The reason he gave was that it would not be possible for larger institutions to be able to profit from the same approach with any real size and as such they would not be interested. Of course this is not universal and depends on the market being traded and the approach being used
Paul
What would you like to know! Ask me anything.Oh, dear! If you are experienced please take a little less time with this hunter stuff and tell us something educational so that we can see what you've got. Your experience? We'll be the judge of that, you don't need to tell us, yourself.
Tom I agree, absolutely it's cliched, but it fits so nicely in so many ways.As unpopular as this opinion seems to be, I like your thread and your analogy and it means something to me. It is a little cliched and that will no doubt bring out the cynics who will shoot you down but I do respect anyone that makes any kind of post (experienced or otherwise) that tries to get people to think. What matters Virtuos0 is not how many people think you, or your post is full of sh*t, it's that it may help someone, somewhere. All the best with this.
Tom
To answer your points in order:
My earlier post in no way outlines my level of experience. I get bored whilst trading (who doesn't!) and felt like amusing myself by playing the newbie, it's as simple as that. I quickly realised that that game was as dull as ditchwater so just decided to be myself.
I know that everyone likes a good conspiracy theory but unfortunately there isn't one here.
If you can't tell I'm an experienced trader from my recent posts then you need to read a little harder!
I have no way of proving it either way as I suppose any question asked of me can be Google'd in a few seconds.
If anyone has thought more about some details of their trading by reading this thread then great, if not you have lost nothing.
trading, is very much like making love to a beautiful woman
What would you like to know! Ask me anything.
10inches by the way, so you don't need to ask that.
"The most successful hunters have subtle edges in the forest that they had to work incredibly hard to find and master"
collective knowledge passed from parents to children in the formative years of life
childs play
if it was so F..ckin hard ........... how come the whole planets infested with us ?
later
Andy
Every new trader is effectively in this situation:"The most successful hunters have subtle edges in the forest that they had to work incredibly hard to find and master"
collective knowledge passed from parents to children in the formative years of life
childs play
if it was so F..ckin hard ........... how come the whole planets infested with us ?
later
Andy
Every new trader is effectively in this situation:
You are alone in the forest
You have no tools
You have no knowledge
You meet a seemingly friendly tribe who you believe are educating you but infact are doing the exact opposite
You eat scraps until eventually you die
Absolutely, we are completely at the mercy of our ecosystem, we cannot control the weather, the behaviour of the animals, of plants, or how those factors interact. At its most basic level what we are looking for is predictability. This can be incredibly hard because an ecosystem is hugely complex and constantly changing. To an inexperienced hunter an ecosystem could appear to behave randomly. But for the hunter that takes the trouble to learn the behaviour of every one of its constituent parts, that interaction can suddenly seem incredibly obvious.
I am a mosquito, Slaying wilderbeest my ass.