Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

Discussion in 'Psychology' started by ElectricSavant, Apr 10, 2005.

Is Trading Gambling or not

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  1. Gambling

    460 vote(s)
    35.0%
  2. Not Gambling

    854 vote(s)
    65.0%
  1. heypa

    heypa

    There goes that all inclusive word. Not all homeowners.
    I built my home to live in not for resale.
    I had just retired an it is planned to be my last home.
    Been here 29 years.
    Unfortunately here is in california. Doesn't deserve to be capitalized.
     
    #911     Nov 11, 2010
  2. it doesn't matter whether it's poker or trading. I'll win money period. I can't imagine well-disciplined traders losing money in poker....
     
    #912     Nov 11, 2010
  3. #913     Nov 11, 2010
  4. Scrolling down all the way through BT's Trader Questionnaire, it becomes obvious that inherent in their criteria are skill and discipline.
     
    #914     Nov 12, 2010
  5. Well a professional gambler understands that to be consistently profitable, he needs to understand the odds and play when the odds are in his favor. Trading is the same way.
     
    #915     Nov 23, 2010
  6. does a gambler know?

    Es


     
    #916     Nov 24, 2010
  7. I was pissed off with fundamentals and technicals because it seemed nothing worked consistently.

    Then one day starting from Oct 1, 2010 i started to maintain a journal of an Asian future market which i trade recording how the price behaved- Where it opened, where it hit high, where low, where it closed.

    I started to understand, memorize and revise the journal every day and the neurons and synapses inside my brain have started to get hang of things.

    Trading is 100% collective psychology. No single technical indicator can help to make profit consistently until and unless one does not read the collective psychology. Reading the markets correctly is imperative.

    I have tracked 41 trading days in journal, revised every trading day hundred of times and i am able to understand why market behaves how it behaves.

    I only need price to work on my trades.
     
    #917     Nov 28, 2010
  8. kingfisher3210,

    ahhhh...(after five years and 153 pages of posts with 79856 views).

    ...this is the question to you kingfisher3210: is Statistical Trading "not gambling"....Did you vote?

    This is important.

    Es


     
    #918     Nov 28, 2010
  9. #919     Nov 28, 2010
  10. Yes i voted. It is not gambling.

    Sorry boss to deviate from main topic.
     
    #920     Nov 28, 2010