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The Greatest Trading Loss

  
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The Greatest Trading Loss

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What is the greatest risk you face in trading?

 

Is it loss of money?

 

Certainly, that’s what most traders believe. I tend to disagree though. In my opinion we have something much greater at risk, that very few of us consider during the ‘learning phase’.

 

The American political journalist and author, Norman Cousins, is quoted as saying, ‘Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.’

 

Along similar lines, I would argue that loss of capital is not the greatest loss in trading. The greatest loss is what we lose from within. (more…)

Hope Quotes for Traders

  
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hope-trader“The speculator’s chief enemies are always boring from within. It is inseparable from human nature to hope and to fear… The successful trader has to fight these two deep-seated instincts. He has to reverse what you might call his natural impulses. Instead of hoping he must fear; instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.”

– Reminiscences of a Stock Operator 

“Hope is not a strategy.”

– Rigo Durazo

“There is no worse course in leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away.”

– Winston Churchill

“It is not enough to rely on luck or hope to carry us past the weak parts of our game. These parts must be attended to. The system must be whole and complete.”

– Zen and the Art of Poker (more…)

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