Is Technical Analysis a joke??

Discussion in 'Technical Analysis' started by Jdesey, Apr 22, 2020.

  1. easymon1

    easymon1

    is a chicken hatched from an egg?
     
    #161     Apr 28, 2020
  2. Sekiyo

    Sekiyo

    No. It's not about proability alone.
    It's about value. The statistical expectation.

    The formula tells you to bet in the lower P(w) case.
    Not because of probability alone but because of the expectation.

    Selling naked options and collecting premium is a high probability trade.
    But overall you end up ruined because more often than not, the loss is infinite.

    Let's say you place 1:1 stop loss, take profit.
    If you can get a P(win) > 1/2 then you win in the long run.

    Value is about probabilities and payoffs.
    Risk management is about avoiding variance to ruin you.

    You can have an advantage but over bet.
    In this case variance will make you broke anyway.

    The formula tells you how much to bet.
    It's the simplified kelly criterion.

    If you have an edge then don't bet more than kelly (x%).
    If you don't have an edge then don't bet.
    That's the outcome of the formula.

    #1 You need a reliable system
    #2 That recognize positive expected value (Profitability)
    #3 You need to know how to size your bet
    #4 To max(Growth) and min(Ruin) (Risk)
     
    #162     Apr 28, 2020
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  3. Sekiyo

    Sekiyo

    Yes sir
    Don't know what I meant by "A chicken isn't born chicken" LMAO
    It's a kind of Chicken Existentialism

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    #163     Apr 28, 2020
  4. easymon1

    easymon1

    the egg, qed
     
    #164     Apr 28, 2020
  5. volpri

    volpri

    So tomm it will be turkey? Then next year a buzzard. In a decade it will become an iguana tail and all! Sounds kinda stupid doesn’t it? If you came from a monkey you better hope you forever dropped the tail..ROFLMAO.
     
    #165     Apr 28, 2020
  6. easymon1

    easymon1


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    #166     Apr 28, 2020
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  7. volpri

    volpri

    Some monkeys didn’t adapt. They didn't lose their tail. Nor do they drive a Toyota and send a rocket ship to the moon.

    On the other hand some people can “act” like a monkey.

    What’s up doc?
     
    #167     Apr 28, 2020
  8. Sekiyo

    Sekiyo

    It’s stupid only because you want it to sounds stupid.

    Funny, isn’t it ?

    Speaking of dropping the tail
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccyx
     
    #168     Apr 28, 2020
  9. NQurious

    NQurious

    Wait? Are we really seeing a fight over which cam first - the chicken or the egg?

    Is that what ET has finally come to?

    Unbelievable.

    It was the chicken.

    Done.
     
    #169     Apr 28, 2020
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  10. Sekiyo

    Sekiyo

    LMAO

    So who’s first ?
    The baby or the mother ?

    You guys are telling it’s the mother.
    But the mother was first a baby !

    So it’s the egg.
     
    #170     Apr 28, 2020