Trader's attitude toward winning or losing

Discussion in 'Trading' started by zdreg, Apr 20, 2022.

If I win the game is beautiful. If I lose the game is rigged.

  1. True

    1 vote(s)
    4.8%
  2. False

    13 vote(s)
    61.9%
  3. Win or lose the game is rigged.

    7 vote(s)
    33.3%
  1. zdreg

    zdreg

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    If you win the game is rigged.
    If I win the game is flawless and beyond critique.
     
  2. Nobert

    Nobert

    That's not a traders attitude. That's a victim mentality. It will touch any gender, age group, profession or anyone else, whos not aware of his own flaws/fails.
     
  3. zdreg

    zdreg

    True and it is the mentality of some posters on ET.
     
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  4. deaddog

    deaddog

    But why do you care? It doesn't affect your trading does it?
     
  5. zdreg

    zdreg

    I liked what it s says about human nature in general.
     
  6. zghorner

    zghorner

    "Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better" - Jim Rohn the GOAT
     
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  7. Aisone

    Aisone

    It isn't a matter of whether or not it is rigged, it is, it is a matter of identifying how it is rigged and exploiting it.
     
    Last edited: Apr 20, 2022
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  8. smallfil

    smallfil

    Just shows you do not have a clue. Trading is not about winning. It is about having a trading edge. A 30% winning stock trader is a winner if he has a trading edge. And a 90% winning stock trader is a loser if he does not have a trading edge. Otherwise, go to Las Vegas and lose your monies in a casino. You will get comps in free rooms and free buffets to salve your ego. If you lose your monies in the stockmarket, you just hurt your ego without anything to show for it. You got nothing.
     
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  9. deaddog

    deaddog

    Of course it's rigged. The market isn't there for you to make money. Like any other market it is there for the people who run it to make money. You don't expect to be able to make money from any other retail business where someone is selling you something you think you want, why would you expect to make money from a business that sells you securities?
     
  10. Aisone

    Aisone

    I really hate the term 'edge' that people throw around. I respect those that do a tremendous amount of statistical analysis to determine a statistical edge and in turn profit from that research. Everyone else that uses it is just being a dork. :p
     
    #10     Apr 20, 2022
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