If you use stop losses then you are essentially gambling

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

  1. It should be real easy for you to look up.
     
    #111     Feb 16, 2024
  2. Here is an example. IWM closed @ 202.96 and opened the next day @ 196.22 so how would stops have helped you in that scenario? It dropped even lower intraday, so since you think like the average retail investor, you would have been stopped out at some point after market opened taking huge losses. The next day price reversed and completely recovered so doing nothing was the best course of action...it usually is.
     
    #112     Feb 16, 2024
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  3. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    I'll take that as a no, that you didn't post any. Ok.
     
    #113     Feb 16, 2024
  4. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    That actually makes sense. Now why would you do that, post something that makes sense in this sense-less topic. :)
     
    #114     Feb 16, 2024
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  5. smallfil

    smallfil

    There is an Enron employee who is not at the top management but, maybe, middle management who kept buying Enron stock as it went lower. He lost everything. Blind as a bat, he cannot see that there is something wrong with the company as Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling dumped tens of millions of shares in the stockmarket near the top. As they say, you cannot fix stupid.
     
    #115     Feb 16, 2024
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  6. smallfil

    smallfil

    Anyone can see the huge volume spikes as the stock goes parabolic. A sure sign that it is almost over. Watch Dumb Money movie. The greedy ones always get shafted in the end. Smart ones, cuts and runs. You will never get the absolute top or bottom. That is a fool's errand.
     
    #116     Feb 16, 2024
  7. Hello wxytrader,

    You are genius buddy. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP today and telling us about this way of trading. I traded with no Stop Loss today, average into losing trades, and made money!! Pretty Easy. I will keep on doing it.

    Nice idea @wxytrader

    Thank you!!!
     
    #117     Feb 16, 2024
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  8. You may have just escaped The Matrix.

    You will forthwith be known as Neo.wxy will be known as Morpheus.
     
    #118     Feb 16, 2024
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  9. NoahA

    NoahA

    I thought you were already an Elite Trader? I thought you had it all figured out with where to click and just manifesting a profit. So you're telling me that you decided to try a new strategy today and put your faith in it? What was wrong with the strategy that you were already supposedly using to make you money?

    No need to reply actually since I know it will all be bullshit anyway. Just pointing out how fucked up your recent posting history is.
     
    #119     Feb 16, 2024
  10. Hello NoahA,

    Well, I am not sure what to tell you NoahA. I want to make money as much as I can. If it makes money and I like it will do it in trading.

    I have said over 1000 times, I learned trading from other traders right here on ET forum for the kind cost of $0.00. I have tried other members techniques as well. I tried all kinds of trading styles.

    Yes I am, I make money on my main way of trading too using stop loss always.

    But today , I went in my other trading account, I wanted to see if not using stop loss makes money as well. It works, and I will keep on doing it, it makes money for me.

    Now I got 3 ways of making money. this way, my way, and my algo way.

    I do not discriminate when it comes to make money in the ES futures market. All 3 ways can help me reach a million faster.

    Thank you so much @wxytrader
     
    #120     Feb 16, 2024
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