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Losers, winners and strike rates

Losers, winners and strike rates

Further to my previous post about strike rates, I thought I add some flesh to the discussion.

At the end of the day people have a variety of different risk profiles. Your tolerance and reaction to risk is predominantly a psychological factor. The good thing is you can learn to overcome any psychological failings. When I was not as experienced as I am now I would often over analyse things and let the market be my master. Now I am …

18/09/2012 | By More
Strike rates

Strike rates

I know I have got all excited about strike rates recently but….. I must insert some an important caveat when addressing strike rates in general, not all strikes rates are created equally.

If I get a monkey, I can give him a set up that gets him a 50% strike rate, not hard. With the same monkey I can increase this to 80-90% by tweaking some parameters. There is a simple trade, which requires more than monkey like intelligence, that …

21/09/2009 | By More
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