a very small minority of ET posters will ever make a fortune in the 1st place. more commonly they will blow up pocket change.
About only Taleb Nassim books adress the problem of randomness and inpredictability (and how to deal with it).
As far as I am concerned the Black swan was crap. The French are socialists, I used to work on Wall Street and America is the greatest country on earth. There you have it, an entire book in one sentence.
let's see if you say that after a transaction tax comes. instead of flipping stocks you may be flipping something else.