If you use stop losses then you are essentially gambling

Discussion in 'Trading' started by wxytrader, Feb 15, 2024.

  1. Hello wxytrader,

    I understand . Thank you I will try it out indeed. Thanks good comments and thread.
     
    #91     Feb 15, 2024
  2. Handle123

    Handle123

    Been trading long time, Life is a gamble, only thing is sure bet is taxes and death. Walking across street, eating at restaurants, making a friend, all are gambles. No matter how much time one puts into studying price action or fundamentals, it is never 100% to profit.
     
    #92     Feb 15, 2024
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  3. traider

    traider

    Don't need stop losses when long.
    Stonks go up
     
    #93     Feb 15, 2024
  4. maxinger

    maxinger

    You should try to long this AMC stonk.

    If you try a million times, sooner or later, such stonks will go up.


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    #94     Feb 15, 2024
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  5. deaddog

    deaddog

    You're kidding!! LOL
    Why not? Look at all the opportunity you are missing as this bull stumbles on.
     
    #95     Feb 15, 2024
  6. Peter8519

    Peter8519

    No stop loss is based on an assumption, one is always correct in entering a position. Is this even possible ?
     
    #96     Feb 16, 2024
  7. You are thinking too linear with right or wrong...you can be right that the price will leg down another level and act accordingly. Placing stops assumes that you always nail the bottom when most positions naturally go negative before they go positive.
     
    #97     Feb 16, 2024
  8. cesfx

    cesfx

    Averaging down implies that you start very small on your trades.
    Like a very slow portfolio that can be in a drawdown for a long time because it's mostly cash and not fully invested at any time, forget leverage.

    Possible, but if any of this underlying traded drops substantially, you wish you just went long spy without leverage, or stayed in cash, for a few years to come.
     
    #98     Feb 16, 2024
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  9. danielc1

    danielc1

    We are in need of a real bear market, if we indulge our self in tactics that doesn't consider risk to rewards.
     
    #99     Feb 16, 2024
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  10. schizo

    schizo

    BTW have you noticed that every thread that the OP created is controversial? The dude is a troll par excellance.
    My gawd, that's an abomination. That POS stock should have never gone up that high in the first place. It shows how manipulative this stock market is. Did ya really think WallStreetBet was up in arms against short sellers and covering your back?????????? You bunch of naive jackasses!

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    #100     Feb 16, 2024
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