Depends on how you picked the trades. If they were random, then yeah, an amazing losing streak. If you are using a method or system, then it could just be breaking down now (reverting to mean), or any success you had in the past was more a function of the bull market the last few years, than an actual trading "edge". The fact that 90% or whatever traders fail after a few years is not "just an incredible run of bad luck.." The "market" IS out to get you! Regards and good luck to all.
My losing was broken Friday at 20 consecutive days. I made $456. All I need is an 800 pt drop in the Dow.
Yet while optimists might welcome news that the current bull run is four-and-a-half years old, "only three out of the past 15 bull markets have lasted five years or longer, with the average surviving only 3.4 years," according to Jim Stack, editor of the InvesTech Market Analyst newsletter, in U.S. News & World Report . What's more, "even that's distorted by the longevity of the 1990s bull," the magazine writes. "The median length of a bull market-- the statistical point where an equal number last longer or shorter-- is only 2.6 years." The current bull market has also been unusually correction-free. Despite the swoon that took place two months ago, share prices have yet to experience a typical, but healthy, pullback. According to the International Herald Tribune , again citing the research of Mr. Stack, "the past four years have been the second-longest period during which the S&P 500 has gone without a 10 percent correction (the longest was a six-year stretch in the 1990s)."
s2007 what you're neglecting to highlight is this incredible non corrective almost nonstop 4 1/2 year grind that has taken place with a mear interupped 2 year period between the greatest 18 year bubble in world history. so we've had a total of basically 25 years up and 2 years (2000-2002) down. you got to believe the enxt downturn not to logn away will be massive and brutal to no end to wash out 15 years of excesses