Great thread Clive. Sincerely hope you're living the dream, or at least well on the way. You definitely have all the necessary ingredients here. :-)

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Completely agree. Very well said kthrap. :-)

Trading is as simple as ABCD

Take a guy like Dan Zanger. Turned 11K into 42 Mill in 2 years. Large amount of losers like all Pros, but he lets his winners run and cuts his losers quickly. url Anyway, thats it from me. Success depends on an ability to identify the truly ...

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Guys... I've been trading professionally since twenty years... NEVER seen anyone even remotely achieving 100%... I've given you lots and lots of examples of people in the public domain who started with next to nothing and went on to become Market ...

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Last thing guys, it's elementary, straightforward maths: IF there were someone with a pipeline to the Universe who would REALLY have 100% winning trades they could start with a hundred bucks and be tthe richest person on earth in a couple of months. ...

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Main reason I'm writing this is because the odds of actually learning anything whatsoever that could actually contribute to your trading career from someone claiming 100% winning trades is exactly equally as remote as hoping to learn how to crack ...

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Again, I do understand that most losing traders wish for nothing more than discovering a sytsem where they'll have nothing but winning trades. But dispelling that myth is actually the biggest help people who want to become traders will ever get: ...

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I fully understand that most newbs and unprofitable traders are forever on the search for the nonexistent holy grail. Most losing traders waste their entire careers on thinking that if they only study hard enough they will eventually crack the ...

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Actually even the indicators themselves are pretty irrelevant. Won't make much difference to end results over time if you use MACD or a moving average or Stochs or whatever to identify trend, and what you use to identify a pullback, channels, ...

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Where most traders go wrong is... they want only winning trades... they want a guru telling em when to buy and sell... and they get lost in details. the point about this thread - which is really good bythe way - is the concept. Buy pullbacks in a ...

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Been reading these boards for years, and just wanted to say that this has been one of the best threads here, one can tell that quite a lot of people here are real traders. Kudos and all the best, Divergence. :-)

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In a nutshell, I've been trading professionally since twenty years, and if someone wants to make you believe they only have winning trades, run, don't walk, because it's complete nonsense and simply does not exist in the real world. ;-)

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-Richard Dennis' former Turtles partner William Eckhardt in Market Wizards: William Eckhardt: The Win/Loss Ratio “One common adage on this subject that is completely wrongheaded is: You can’t go broke taking profits. That’s precisely how many ...

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Kenneth Grant, in "Trading Risk: Enhanced Profitability through Risk Control", depicts his experience as risk manager for some of the best and most successful hedge funds, amongst others Paul Tudor Jones funds that: "ACROSS ALL TRADING STYLES, TIME ...

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