As I mentioned earlier, if an alien civilization ever need to quantify the ego of the human species, this thread would probably be a rich data source.
to be the top 5% in the world at anything requires a strong sense of self confidence bordering on arrogance. Do you think Roger Federer has a little bit of an ego? Pete Sampras? so we have already agreed that the people here on ET are mostly profitable, or else they would not be posting here. So we are probably in the 85% to 100% of the top traders in the world give or take. so yeah there is a bit of ego/arrogance here.
So you trade better than random? And you have to look down on people who lose money? Is that how your mother teach you?
If you ask a question about whether someone is a net winner or a net loser and a person answers net winner, does that make them egotistical?
Confidence doesn't equates to arrogance. All of the world's top traders are extremely humble. Arrogance equates to ignorance. Why are people pretending when they're not even there yet? Shame on these people.
The key is that most people here that replied are wriggling around, bragging. Then they'll pretend that the know something from wikipedia. What's the quality of the discussion here?
I'm not surprised, although there are many ways to reach the same place (more or less), I'd expect a few of us to travel down a fairly similar path Yes, looking fwd to 2014. The year I go fully automated! :eek: