You have a good attitude. The reason not to use them is as follows. It is the policy of Elite Trader to reject words with 3 letters or less. Therefore in the future they cannot be found in keyword search. Search Results for Query: trd The search could not be completed because the search keywords were too short ------------
many of my threads/posts revolve around stuff like - if the market did A in the event of B despite of C then it means it's likely gonna do D.. stuff like this, is like 2nd nature for a 142, but can be too difficult for a 100, hence the 120 minimum.
It's a joke said tongue in cheek. I played poker professionally for over 6 years and I love poker analogies from people who don't know shit about poker.
It's not the main thing. The main things are psychological qualities such as persistence, etc. But if you run a high IQ person vs an average IQ person with same psychological profiles the high IQ will vastly outperform.
it's basically people who are wannabees. There's the same thing in poker. they suck but they want to be around "the action". to take care of the cognitive dissonance they have various coping mechanisms such as pretending they're profitable, acting like they know what they're talking about, etc. You want to see these people? Come to Vegas during WSOP lol. Not a pretty sight
Like I said, enjoying a conversation of a certain minimum intellectual pedigree would be enough. I don't enjoy discussing anything including trading with idiots.
everything else being equal your statement is correct, but they never are. However that is the way to bet.