dbphoenix said:If you're referring to me, I suggested the exact opposite.
Sorry, misunderstood your reply.
dbphoenix said:If you're referring to me, I suggested the exact opposite.
AsifA said:Lots of complex rational forwarded by one and all about trading failure. Psychology, emotion blah blah blah which is a "nice little earner" for some. Trading is really quite simple, based on the assertion that those participating have an average IQ. If you are going to do any job, you need the tools. Turning up for work with one screwdriver or one scalpel just wont work. You have to have the tools for the job and use the specific tools for the trading condition that prevails in the time frame you operate in. Use the wrong tool you wont get the job done, or worse you will mess it up, which will cost you !Too many contributions have been from chinese fortune cookies on this matter. Minimise risk by using the right tools. I dont expect a surgeon to turn up to work with a swiss army knife !
Felix1 said:Why do so few succeed?
Mmm, it's an interesting question. Firstly you have to ask yourself wether or not the question is correct?
Is it absolutely true that only the minority succeed?
I honestly don't know!
Is there catagoric proof that only the few succeed?
Felix1 said:Why do so few succeed?
Mmm, it's an interesting question. Firstly you have to ask yourself wether or not the question is correct?
Is it absolutely true that only the minority succeed?
I honestly don't know!
Is there catagoric proof that only the few succeed?
Felix1 said:. Ooops! I should have read the thread thoroughly!
counter_violent said:Has to be true, like any other walk of life ....someone be it comparing individuals or companies or funds or whatever has to be top and then varying degrees thereafter.
rols said:There again thinking correctly may have something to do with it..
What, he liked you to go round to his yucky bedsit and just asked you to call him 'uncle'rols said:My Uncle Harry lived in a yukky bedsit, lived off meals-on-wheels and died with £350K in penny shares. Is that success? (He wasn't my real uncle BTW)
Jack o'Clubs said:What, he liked you to go round to his yucky bedsit and just asked you to call him 'uncle'
Felix1 said:Sometimes i am sure the markets are an absolute certainty for the 'big boys'.
'Money for the boys', or so to speak.
ZDO said:Re: The accuracy of “the statistic”. That’s a reasonable question. I don’t really know. However, industry and academic studies indicate a failure rate of about 80 – 90 % in the futures markets on a ‘by account’ basis. Anecdotally, in another lifetime, at another place far away, for severaI years I was in the discount futures IB business, and those stats held up there big time! My working conclusion – generally the Pareto Principle is alive and well in the leveraged trading of paper and I suspect it’s alive and well throughout the whole financial ‘industry’ on a ‘by account’ basis. This ‘statistic’ is misused, though, in that all the losers are lumped together when there are actually many ‘why’s ‘so few’ succeed… and losers looking for answers will ultimately need to turn away from software, forums, books, other traders, even coaches, etc and turn to self…
‘forty efn uncles’ contributed to uncle harry’s pot. few of them were below average intelligence some of them didn’t learn how to handle heat. some of them didn’t learn how to handle prosperity. some of them didn’t know how to truly be resilient and make instant recovery from losses. some of them unconsciously but genuinely preferred delusions to reality. some of them never became aware of the conflicts and polarities they swung through in their trading lives. some of them gave up right before breakthroughs. some of them brought in pre-existing patterns to their trading world that did them in (ppl cling to patterns – whether those patterns are really adaptive or not) … and we’re still not to the real meat of these ‘whys’…
AsifA, re: “You can be in any state of mind” – I must disagree. Across time (ie consistently) - An unbalanced trader is attracted to ‘bad’ deals. A disturbed trader cannot see opportunities AND cannot train his computer to see same opportunities. An emotionally flooded or depleted trader cannot correctly know which “cool tool” to grab. A conflicted trader cannot manage exits… To compete at a high level (whether taking on the ‘big boys’ is in one’s gestalt or not) absolutely requires having an immaculate mental game. AsifA, it could be that you are so together that you simply cannot comprehend the possibility of ‘psychological’ issues or maybe you had them, dealt with them, and can no even longer relate to them – this is feasible and I’m being serious and respectful, not facetious. If so, I urge you to participate in threads where you have authentic insights instead of encouraging ‘seekers’ to ignore the very things they must master before taking on more tools and techniques.
“90% of the game is half mental” Yogi Berra
http://www.rinkworks.com/said/yogiberra.shtml
AsifA said:One issue I have noted is that although we have a forum, no one has shared a concise methodology of trading (and I am guilty of that)
AsifA said:[yes you are probably right. the problem is that there is so much out there you really can be taken for a ride financiallly. This system that system, take my money I will give you a system ! I have never worked in the financial industry. The first I heard of trading was through some article about Albert labos, whoever he his. But ultimately you have to develop it yourself, as I have done. Different tools for different market conditions. You must know the score.
Millano said:trying to get an idea of which causes for failure are common.