You would think that my stepfather would have had some aha moments once he realized that his trading days were numbered. After coming home from the hospital and making a few more trade, he still continued to lose money. Even his brush with death did not shake him up enough to change his old patterns of trading.
My stepfather could not access his natural ability to act with confidence when trading. He could never see himself like a Stud Trader. This is probably true for many traders, and any trader can learn from my stepfather’s blocked experiences.
My stepfather never considered that he might need to work on his state of mind and the psychology that underlies trading. He simply believed that studying chart patterns without any written notes or JPEG pictures was sufficient. He believed that the entire game of trading was learning how to read the charts, and therefore he had little use for techniques that would neutralize his fear of loss. He needed to create aha moments to turn on the light switch in his dark room.
How to create aha moments
►►►►► Progression of aha moments
What are aha moments? Aha moments bring new clarity to your trading game. Aha moments upgrade your trading performance:
1. You see something new… something you may never have seen before. For example, my stepfather could have taken the controlled risk to keep a trading journal and noticed the results.
2. You see something that you have not grasped until now. For example, you now see the value of only making high-probability trades with reasonable gains. You now see the true irrational nature of Mr. Market, and you know how to deal with him.
3. You see something that is no longer just intellectual k...
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...hich equals 0.02775. The probability of rolling five two times in a row is approximately two and three quarters times out of 100 occurrences.
What are the probabilities of five coming up three times in a row? Answer: You multiply the probability of the three events occurring:
· Pr (event 1) X Pr (event 2) X Pr (event 3)
· .1666 times .1666 times .1666 which equals 0.004624.
The probability of rolling a five three times a row is approximately four and half times out of one thousand occurrences.
The difficulty is that when you roll the die (singular for dice) you are never really sure that the five will only appear two and three quarters times out of 100 hundred occurrences.
For example: If you randomly roll the die one hundred times, you could easily experience:
· Three consecutive fives come up twice in a hundred rolls.
He also recommends reading “Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader” by Curtis Faith since it draws from the lifetime of experience of master traders like Richard Dennis and Jesse Livermore. One thing I would not have done with a business that was currently going broke is pushing it to the side in favor of another venture. Lucio and Jim thought it was a good idea to divert their attention away from a failing JL Audio in favor of a new business and took out a loan to have enough capital to open it. Luckily, things turned out fine for them, but there are just so many things that could’ve gone wrong and pushed them deeper into debt than they were in the first place. If I was in their shoes, I would’ve tried to build up JL Audio into a more profitable business first; some product discounts and sales could’ve helped move stock faster and when JL Audio was doing better, then they could’ve expanded into other business
the many things that can be learned from it, instead of looking at it passively. You grow
For instance, Royal Bank of Canada stockbroker Brad Katsuyama. Discovered that nearly all his trades had predictable or desired results. He lost money when he should have gained it. Before he could blink, shares which would have likely profited traded far worse than the original market price.
In essence, it is a bet that only costs you a small amount, but that offers you a very large return. The only downside is that the odds of you winning are tiny (like a lottery), except the unlike the lottery you are thousands of times more likely to win.
The probabilities of winning the lottery on a single ticket isone in 175 million, a very small chance and most of us do not realize that those odds are immensity low. (Wasserstein, R.L. 2013)
The head of the household went up and they were very nervous until they opened the slips of paper. “After that, there was a long pause, a breathless pause, until Mr. Summers, holding his slip of paper in the air, said, ‘All right fellows.’ For a minute, no one moved, and then all of the slips of paper were opened.” (pg. 4) The farther they got into the lottery, the more people felt apprehension. Before, they were talking about other towns getting rid of the lottery, but now, since no one did anything about it, someone will flip their slip of paper and find the black dot on it. When they do get it, they will become deceased. After everyone found out who had the slip with the dot on it, that didn’t mean that their dismay would be
"Gamblers Anonymous: Q and A." Gamblers Anonymous Official Home Page. Web. 12 May 2011. .
To use 600 dice and roll them up to the decided throw number of 14.
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... and there are 4 trials (4 customers). Using the Binomial Theorem, I can substitute these numbers into the formula.
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