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Comment by SamBam

On my first try I got a return of 34% over a month of trading, while the Buy & Hold got 5%.

But I'm not going to quit my day job.

It's quite easy to keep afloat if you're trading on something like BitCoin that mostly just goes up and up, with the occasional downward blip. But since you don't know when it all might come crashing down, you may as well be doubling your bet every time you lose at roulette -- that also feels like you keep winning, until you don't.

One thing that would probably be good is to have people create accounts, and ensure all their sessions are logged. That will make it so that people can't just forget their losses and pretend to themselves that they usually win.

parent SamBam 6 years ago

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