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发表于 2009-7-18 22:04
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对于听得懂鹰语的散仙们,下面这段话还是蛮有意思的:
people keep trading because most of them don't know that edges are hard to get..... the thread you quoted is a perfect example that 95% of the people on this site don't even have the basic knowledge about statistics, and they mistaken things like money management, risk control, discipline etc as an edge.
these are not an edge... an edge is positive expectancy (which is not the same as risk: reward of 1:3 etc, if it's that simple, we set risk/reward ratio of 1:1000 and everybody would be billionaires).
money management, risk control, discipline does not give you positive expectancy.... if you trade a zero to negative expectancy way, these things only guarantee that you die from a thousand small cuts, instead of a sudden blow-up.
So where does positive expectancy come from? For the system trading guys, it's about crunching numbers and taking advantage of a market behavior while it still lasts (nothing last for ever). For the discretionary guys, it's about understanding human behavior in an auction market structure.
Neither approach is easy, the system guys face competition from the big firms with PhDs and super computers; the discretionary guys probably take years to have a reasonably good level of understanding.
Ignorance is bliss - that is why people keep trading. |
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