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Re:Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money by notahacker on Monday August 22, 2016 @12:54PM (#12337638)
Your (4) is much better than the original because of the second point about how prone people are to assuming a few positive results mean you're definitely outsmarting the market.

So much of the day trading dream is based around the idea that consistent gains show the strategy is working, and not just that you haven't paid to hedge for the event that's going to wipe out all those gains in a very short period...

Re:Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money by earl_gray on Monday August 22, 2016 @02:26PM (#12338308)
That second sentence is very insightful.