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Strategies & Market Trends : Trade What You See, Not What You Think

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To: DismalScientist who wrote (727)	9/7/2001 1:47:08 AM
From: Apakhabar	Read Replies (2) of 867

Actually deaths among bikers and motorcyclists have risen since wearing a helmet became law, an example of how the Law of Unintended Consequences works. What seems to be the case is that when wearing a helmet, riders on two wheels take more risks than riders whose heads are unprotected. The relation to trading might be that when traders keep very tight stop losses and have the iron discipline to keep them, they might develop a bad habit of entering too many positions (since they cannot be seriously hurt by any single one of them). Overtrading as a result, they get killed by transaction costs....

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