trend following delusion shattered

All publicly available information and techniques are effectively already in the market price, because there's no way for the individual trader to reliably compete against the resources and access of the collective competition including the bigger players.

 

Does 10361 on the YM mean anything to you? Please no wise crack remarks.

 

Hmm. Sounds like you are now shattering "delusions" of your own creation. Welcome to the "other side."

 

Agreed, the criterion of "publicly available" is not essential to the concept.

 

That would be something called a theory, not a proof. Prove your assertions.

M

 

I may be mistaken but, judging by your post, I'm guessing that you are not doing very well right now. If that is indeed the case, do you really think that this is a good forum to address this issue?

 

I did so already. Now pick up the ball and run with it.

 

Your pathetically hobbled "individual trader" has one thing going for him against the big bad "bigger players". That is the ability to trade a totally wild-assed idea that would get an institutional trader fired. "Why did you make that trade?" "Beats the shit out of me! I just liked it! Plus my ass itched like it did the last time I made a great trade."

 

Your fantasy life doesn't interest me.

 

I think that there is also the agility afforded by much smaller size.