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Strategies & Market Trends : Classic TA Workplace

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To: GraceZ who wrote (40371)5/28/2002 10:18:09 AM
From: gsp6181  Read Replies (2) of 209892
 
"The sad secret everyone who works in the business knows but nobody ever tells traders is that traders make a lot of money and then they lose it all. Its little old ladies who die rich."

Grace,
Of course this does not need to be the case. The few disciplined traders that I know put their profits into conservative instruments and only trade off of a limited amount of principal - thereby joinging the little old ladies. Why do some traders "swing for the fences" as in the case [supposedly] of Jesse Livermore. Ego, compulsion, meeting some subconscious need?
George
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