Recent Content by marketdancer

  1. trend following - quo vadis?

    trends lookes great in hindsight....also the painful drawdowns if you fool enough to insist on riding them all the way hurt the soul and limited...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 29, 2005 in forum: Strategy Building

  2. What do you do With Someone who just Doesn't

    pay a bully to sit beside you..if you try to deviate from your (i assume) profitable trading plan..each time..he has to beat you up and you have...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 29, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  3. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    well...if you use that kind of mentality on trading on some dot bombs.......or enron,worldcom.....end of the story.....
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 18, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  4. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    what wdscott is talking about is scale trading...lots of info and cheap books of this approach its more of look for being near historic lows...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 18, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  5. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    on the final run up of the dot com boom...any person,any system any method who goes long makes money.... is it brilliance? skill? heck..these...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  6. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    the flukes that makes people in the game look easy and easy money is the new players who got in in a trending market like the last 8 months...so...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  7. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    Holy grail? are people WILLING to SPENT hundreds/thousands of hours looking for them? inclusive of pain of losses as part of it? that it will you...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  8. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    what is funny is that...in a game that reward is so rich....people expect also the effort to be easy at the same time.... but its the law of...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  9. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    Quote from marketdancer: illiquid - lol....each market participant like those institutional traders just "implement" their edge on the...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  10. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    illiquid - lol....each market participant like those institutional traders just "implement" their edge on the market..each participant do it in...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  11. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    tradwinds - yes..thats my point all along...the opinion of the winners is what counts than the rest of us.... imagine...assuming the bunch of...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  12. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    electricsavant - lol....the spouse sure is a major supporting part of our endeavor... in my world...what i tell her is that i spent the past...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  13. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    i always wonder why people do not eventually into trading with systems...must be the ego not willing to give up their very clever market original...
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  14. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    ok....this is my conclusion...for market losers..they think this is all gambling....for winners..it aint.....
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology

  15. Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    first we have to define what is the meaning of a trader here at ET....so that make sure the participants are discussing about the same boat........
    Post by: marketdancer, Apr 17, 2005 in forum: Psychology