This (staying glued to the screen) is detrimental
for human traders, as then they get trapped into the psychological problems you outline.
Not exact matches
As the role of the
human trader declines, information service providers will cease to give away desktop applications and software in the hope of generating demand
for chargeable data.
It is common
for every
trader to see in themselves some of the characteristics highlighted in this article; we are all
human.
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For Treasuries, the share of transactions by primary dealers has dwindled by more than half to 4 percent since the end of 2008,» with electronic
traders like Citadel expanding their role as dealers, and the complaints about the Treasury market sound a lot like the complaints in the equity markets about
human market makers being replaced by algorithmic
traders.
Understanding and maintaining firm control on the
human psychological emotions that drive stock markets is crucial
for both new and experienced
traders to understand.
These tools are most useful
for traders because they allow us to look at price activity in an objective way (without the
human error that is associated with other types of forecasts).
Former California Gov. Gray Davis (D), whose approval rating plummeted following weeks of rolling blackouts in 2000 and 2001,
for which Enron and other energy
traders were later blamed, said
humans are «killing the climate.»
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for every
human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes — including commensals (generally harmless freeloaders) and mutualists (favor
traders) and, in only a tiny number of cases, pathogens.
Trading puts great pressure on a
human being to take action at any time of the day while it's humanly not possible
for a
trader to respond at a sleeping time or odd hours.
What
human variables contribute to the success rate being much lower than breakeven
for most
traders?
While ETF
traders have been saying stocks were poised
for some sort of downside correction, particularly in view of riots in Greece in the wake of Standard & Poor's downgrade of that country's sovereign debt to junk status, Thursday's swift and unprecedented price action — between 2:30 and 3:00 p.m. EDT — clearly involved computers as opposed to panicked
humans.
The resulting collapse / convergence in global interest rates & spreads, the implacable compression & decline in volatility / momentum, the restriction / regulation of banks» proprietary risk, numerous FX scandals, the replacement of
human traders by algo - trading, the near extinction of FX & macro funds, all served to disrupt and suppress currency
for return & dynamic hedging strategies.
Most trading professionals will agree that the
human element can, at times, severely impact the trading goals and strategies of the
trader as they strive
for profit and attempt to escape the pain of losses.
The opportunists who see profit in this scam — the carbon
traders, the third world tin pots looking
for «compensation» and so on — are the useful idiots
for the anti
human totalitarians.
For example, a robot can monitor the stock or cryptocurrency market and trade just like a
human trader would do, with the only difference being that the former (arguably) does it better and never needs to rest.