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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: WaveSeeker who wrote (7218)	3/11/2000 2:36:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 18137

WaveSeeker, I'm not sure that daytrading really IS all that different from software enginnering. It all depends on perspective. You wrote: "When you're writing software, everything has to be perfect there is no room for error." Really? What software do you know that is perfect? LOL! I have the perspective of having worked for a while in software quality assurance. Now, the job of a software tester puts one at a rather unique viewpoint, one that drives many software engineers crazy: IF YOU CAN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG, YOU HAVE FAILED IN YOUR JOB! I don't know a software quality engineer who has ever failed in their job. :) A good software engineer, then, like a good trader, knows that there will be errors. One of your goals should be to minimize the the impact of the errors, and make them easy to recognize, diagnose, and repair. Just don't ever think that your code - or your trading - will be error-free. By accepting that there will be errors you can minimize their impact.