If you are a trader, you will relate
When an archer is shooting for nothing . . . he has all his skill.
When an archer is shooting for nothing . . . he has all his skill.
I cam across this yesterday and though it might be interesting for some weekend technical analysis reading. I haven’t read it yet.
Its from the Market Technicians Association, the August issue of “Technically Speaking”.
Free download etc. etc. The link is here.
Whats in it? …
A trading bias is the tendency that leads traders and investors to follow a predetermined path in a trade or investment even when it appears they are wrong from a fundamental or technical perspective or both. A bias about a trade occurs when there is a loss of perspective because their opinions or predictions are held even after they are proven wrong. When you have losses in the timeframe that should have lead to profits it is time to reevaluate your entry. When traders and investors hold on to a bias many times it is because they lose the ability to accept evidence that shows them they were wrong. To break the spell of a bias toward your market position let moving averages be your trend signals, let stop losses be your risk managers, and let the price action prove you wrong. How do you know when you are wrong? You are losing money. Abandon your bias in favor of a trading plan and a system that reacts to price action.
If you took a penny on the first day of the month and doubled it every day for that month (all 30 days), how much would you end up at the end of the month? One cent, two cents, four cents, 8 cents…. you end up with $5,368, 709.12 at the end of day thirty. Surprised? This is the power of compounding money over and over for staggering returns. This also shows how much money some traders on social media would quickly have if they were as good as they pretend to be. This also explains this quote from Jesse Livermore:
“If a man didn’t make mistakes, he‘d own the world in a month. But if hedidn’t profit by his mistakes, he wouldn’t own a blessed thing.” ~ Jesse Livermore
Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance. It’s Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, “No other word and no other language, can do it justice.” This example is better than 1,000 words. Read the story below the picture and then you will understand.
A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time, and as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel. This went on for more than 3 years. The two of them never spoke. One day, as the young man passed the old lady’s stand and left his quarter as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to him. Without blinking an eye she said: “They’re thirty five cents now.”
ATMs in Hindi-speaking states will now generate receipts in Hindi, along with English, as the Home Ministry has asked the Reserve Bank of India to direct banks to procure only those ATMs that can print receipts in Hindi.
The ministry has also instructed two major foreign suppliers of ATMs to upgrade the software in the existing ATMs to ensure printouts in Hindi.
The Department of Financial Services has written to the Home Ministry, saying the matter is under consideration. “We will be perusing this matter… the issue is that the printout of the receipt (from the ATM) should come in the language in which the transaction is being made,” a Home Ministry spokesperson said.
At present, only ATMs procured by the Union Bank of India from Diebold firm have the facility to print in Hindi.