Sentences with phrase «losses than winners»

It's even possible that a system has larger losses than winners and still be profitable if the winrate is high.

Not exact matches

This plays a big role in investor behavior: Investors have a (bad) habit of selling winners and not letting losers go because of loss aversion rather than for logical financial reasons.

Returns of individual stocks in the portfolio followed the typical pattern for successful quarters — more winners than losers, and gains of greater magnitude than losses.

The winner can climb as high as 3rd with a Team Levine Loss but will not finish any lower than 4th.

There isn't much to savor from Team USA's 3 — 2 overtime loss to Slovenia on the opening day of the Olympic men's hockey preliminary round in PyeongChang, in which the Americans spoiled a 2 — 0 lead with under 15 minutes to play and then yielded a tap - in winner when all three defenders were caught puck - watching less than a minute into overtime.

there is more than 3 points at stake come Sunday, the winner would have laid down the gauntlet for the chasing pack... Leicester can afford to lose and still get over the loss because they are over achieving already, if we lose or draw that will be the death knell for our title ambitions

His shot rebounded to his captain, who fired home the winner but as the replays rolled it was clear that the goal had actually relied upon Jordon Ibe's loss of concentration at the set piece as much if not more than anything a United player had done to create or score the chance.

While the boys» father Hollis (two - time Emmy Award - winner Aaron Paul) loves his sons, he is still reeling from the loss of their mother, spending more time drowning his sorrows at the local bar and working on his damaged beach house than being an active parent.

More of the time we are focused in other details but the main the confluence is the key to get more winner than lossers.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

But since the average winner is often 2 to 3 times bigger than the average loss, the end result is consistent trading profits.

But I would point out Jones semms much more of a Trader than Investor, and advocates taking very quick losses and letting winners run.

The key isn't to try to make more than 1:1 risk / reward so that your winners cover your losses (although that helps), but rather that you turn most of your failed trades into scratch / break even trades or very small losses.

Over an entire investment career, the amount and size of investment losses will most likely have more to do with returns than the magnitude of winners.

However, it is not uncommon for a professional trader to lose a higher percentage of trades than he or she wins, but it does not matter because they keep their losers small and they are totally fine with swallowing losses as they wait for a winner to hit.

I have personally found that viewing my trades as a win or lose proposition and being totally OK with the loss, is a better way to trade long term, because you will inevitably have some winners that more than make up for your losers, and you don't want to cut back on these winners through breakeven trades.

Winning trades can range from 35 - 50 %, but that percentage reveals little information since we expect more losses (of smaller value) than winners (of much larger value).

When the RRR Realized is larger than the initial RRR Planned it either means that the trader cut his loss ahead of the initial stop loss or that he let his winner run beyond his initial target.

If the RRR Realized is smaller than the initial RRR Planned it says that the trader let his loss run beyond his initial stop or cut his winner ahead of the target.

People who think they are winners do not like becoming losers (even if they know they cheated and even if after their loss they will still actually be living better lives than most other people will ever be able to live).