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The Market Taught Me That......

An SI Board Since November 1997

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Emcee: Cynic 2005	Type: Unmoderated

Introduction Compact

A wise person learns from his/her own mistakes. A wiser person learns from others' mistakes. This thread is for the "wanna be wiser" by learning from the others. Please tell us your trading follies and also your virtues.

Long or short; investing or trading; stocks, commodities, options or even currencies trading - doesn't matter what you did. You must have had some winners and some losers. Tell us what worked for you the best and what didn't. Also, tell us what was your biggest mistake and what you learned from it.

The story could be like, "I bought XYZ at 55 as an analyst said 'strong buy.' I held on as it fell sharply. Eventually sold at 30, right at the bottom." Also, please tell us your emotional state of mind when you were buying and selling. After all, it is your state of mind and the resulting action that made you a loser or winner. Not the Shorts, nor the manipulators.

If you don't want your name to be displayed here, just send me an e-mail. I will post it here without posting any reference to your name.

Let us make this thread educational and civil in nature. I will start with mine in a bit.

Good luck!
-MMV

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151	Re: Bookmark Cleanup Has the market taught anyone anything since Thanksgiving?	Proton	-	1/16/1998
150	Leo, my apologies. I never did get a chance to take a look at that company. Tan	Cynic 2005	-	11/24/1997
149	<i>>>> You got me interested enough in RomTech. I also like to	MENSO	-	11/24/1997
148	"what the market taught me" 1} that having a primitive trading syste	taxikid	-	11/17/1997
147	Close to 70% of the people asked to pick a number between 1-10 picked 7. In a p	Arik T.G.	-	11/16/1997
146	Excellent Points Matthew. Please keep posting. Regards Michael Q.	Michael Quarne	-	11/16/1997
145	A few things that I've learnt at GREAT expense: (1) If you want to buy and	Matthew B.	-	11/15/1997
144	I totally agree with you on that. I shorted MOT a while back. It dipped for a	BenYeung	-	11/15/1997
143	I agree with the notion of not margining too heavily. The market also taught me	Steve LaRiviere	-	11/15/1997
142	The Market taught me not to margin too heavily, and thus, similar to not to bor	BenYeung	-	11/14/1997
141	I was actually trying to put a stop-limit on a NASDAQ issue. According to cust	Michael	-	11/13/1997
140	Yes, 3.	Vanni Resta	-	11/13/1997
139	Vanni, Don't you know? GZ	GROUND ZERO™	-	11/13/1997
138	Ricardo, Good question! On the surface the lack of randomness in the stock mar	Vanni Resta	-	11/13/1997
137	Good job man! What are you investing in now? Better yet, go over to the WDC thr	Vanni Resta	-	11/13/1997
136	Vanni, you say: "First, there is NOTHING random about the stock market. Fo	Richard Babusek	-	11/13/1997
135	I know I can put stop-limits on NASDAQ stocks through E*Trade. But I tried to	Dale Baker	-	11/13/1997
134	Vanni your thinking of 4 (you'll probably deny it) - Ricardo <eom>	Richard Babusek	-	11/13/1997
133	What number am I thinking of? Vanni	Vanni Resta	-	11/13/1997
132	Vanni, You say "no one can predict the future." You're wrong be	GROUND ZERO™	-	11/13/1997
131	Unfortunately my discount broker (NDB) won't allow stop-limits on OTC issue	Michael	-	11/13/1997
130	ALL On stops: When you place them. You do so at a point where YOU say you want	Richard Estes	-	11/13/1997
129	One solution to getting burned on stops is a stop-limit order. It will only ex	Dale Baker	-	11/13/1997
128	Hi Mohan--this thread is so quiet that one of two things have happened Everyon	Tom Trader	-	11/12/1997
127	Eric, I am not speaking for Vanni or anyone else. But my philosophy is that unl	Cynic 2005	-	11/12/1997

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