Why do 5% of Traders Win?

Discussion in 'Psychology' started by oldtime, Feb 18, 2012.

  1. 5% of the traders win, they just win.
     
    #101     Feb 19, 2012
  2. krittika

    krittika

    There is nothing wrong to look at a chart.Some people are actually making big dough by reading the chart.wtf???

    :confused:
     
    #102     Feb 19, 2012
  3. I did not say that they didn't, I said that the concepts ... such as data-mining (which is what an algorithmic traders uses to find an edge) is new to someone who is looking at a chart...in particular the member I quoted.

    That's the difference in a discretionary trader and a systematic trader / algorithmic trader that uses probabilities to find an edge.

    I don't know why one would rather look at a chart than have a computer gather the facts and data for you to determine the probabilities of something working out or not...but they do. And many certainly are good at it!

    A computer can be programmed to test many different scenarios and tell one what works best and it can do it extremely fast.
     
    #103     Feb 19, 2012
  4. krittika

    krittika

    Ok,but they do look at charts, one way or another.
     
    #104     Feb 19, 2012
  5. UH, no they don't.

    The program reads the data to determine if something will work or not...no need for a chart.

    For example, I can determine a number for almost any stock that would tell me if it moved away from the open by this amount, it has less than a 30% chance of going back to the open and in the opposite direction by the same amount. I don't need a chart to do this...it takes less than 20 seconds for me to determine and my program looks at 10+ years of data to determine this number.
     
    #105     Feb 19, 2012
  6. krittika

    krittika

    Oh,do they?That`s great!Any chance to get such programms?
     
    #106     Feb 19, 2012
  7. krittika

    krittika

    By reading a chart i could tell you with the 99% certainty wich way the price would go.
     
    #107     Feb 19, 2012
  8. deaddog

    deaddog

    99% certainty. You must be very rich.
     
    #108     Feb 19, 2012
  9. dealmaker

    dealmaker


    Hahaha! Why are you here?
     
    #109     Feb 19, 2012
  10. krittika

    krittika

    What one should prove to a bunch of morons?Turdhudson with the 30% deviated system?I dont think so...
     
    #110     Feb 19, 2012