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Good performance comes from not knowing

I’ve put some thought into this lately. Let’s be honest, nobody knows what the stock market will do next. If you’re still thinking otherwise and trying to predict the future, then I can just say that it’ll take some more time for you to understand. Everybody is guessing something and someone has to be right […]

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Life is poker, not chess

Wise words by Annie Duke, whose book “Thinking in Bets” I read and reviewed in the blog several years ago. What she means with this quote is that in poker we need to deal with lots of unknowns like cards we can’t see and players bluffing, but in chess all the information is available on […]

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The house edge

In a casino you want to be the house not the gambler. Think of the house edge. The more people come to play, the more a casino can take advantage of its statistical positive expectancy. I hadn’t put much thought to it until couple of years ago a backtest clicked to me. A smaller edge […]

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Jack D. Schwager – Market Wizards – Review

The Market Wizards series from Jack D. Schwager is classics. Out of 100 episodes of trading podcasts I’ve listened to, in half of them these books have been mentioned. Just because of its popularity I guess you need to read them if you want to be serious about trading. His first book was released in […]

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Treat trading like a business

I’ve been organizing the monthly meetups with local SpikeTrade members since October. There’s nine of us from Estonia and one Latvian guy participating the meetups. It’s great to talk to other traders as you’ll get to see how others are approaching the markets; share ideas and tools. Yesterday I was doing presentation about my first […]

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