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  • #141
  • Feb 1, 2019 9:12am Feb 1, 2019 9:12am
Quoting 9jatrader
{quote} It doesn't matter whether the "no" win, our life generally is all about gambling. Your parents spend a lot of money going through you school, even to having University certificate. You come home, years without job or even the job you call job can't take care of your expenses. Your parents gambled with their money on you. We gamble everyday without knowing that we gamble
And in fact they lost, I have never liked schools lol

I'm blessed because my family is not poor, but most people end up doing s**ty jobs even though they own a degree...


gambling is just bad overall
  • #142
  • Feb 1, 2019 9:14am Feb 1, 2019 9:14am
Quoting HeyYou
{quote} And in fact they lost, I have never liked schools lol I'm blessed because my family is not poor, but most people end up doing s**ty jobs even though they own a degree... gambling is just bad overall
It's part of our life
Make all mistakes in demo and rain in pips in live account
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  • #143
  • Edited 11:14am Feb 1, 2019 9:37am | Edited 11:14am
Quoting 9jatrader
{quote} It's part of our life

I'd say it all STARTS from gambling.. then I'd rather learn what works and act accordingly.
  • #144
  • Feb 1, 2019 4:48pm Feb 1, 2019 4:48pm
Quoting HeyYou
{quote} I don't think so... yes there are words with the same meaning, but not the case.. https://www.quora.com/Whats-differen...g-and-gambling https://www.investopedia.com/ask/ans...d-gambling.asp ask buffett if he's gambling or investing.
Believe what you want.

Good Luck,

- Ric
Be humble or get humbled
  • #145
  • Feb 1, 2019 5:55pm Feb 1, 2019 5:55pm
The backbone of LDFX's argument that FX trading is not gambling is "Positive Expectancy".

Here is an article that explains what positive expectancy is: https://www.stator-afm.com/tutorial/...ve-expectancy/

After reading it, I am convinced that the author is just an academic teaching a theory and has probably never traded a thing let alone FX.

Firstly, the particulars of a Roulette game are known and can be calculated almost as constants. Tell me, what is constant in FX? In sports, we have constants. For example, the goal posts always stay where they are supposed to be. In FX, the goal posts are moved by the nano second. From the time the ball leaves your kicking foot until it arrives at it's well calculated entrance to the open area of the goal, the entire goal box and it's goalie and which side you are trying to score can move several times. You often score in your own net. In Fx that is.

Positive expectancy formula, in my opinion, can not be applied to trading unless it is based on past performance. You decide how much to risk and in theory, based on your system's past performance or backtest or fundamentals or technicals or projections or whatever other ingredients you throw in, then you manufacture yourself some positive expectancy expectations. That means sh.t in FX.

How many positive expectancy accounts and systems were blown on Jan 02, 2019? That was a biggie and I understand a lot of traders weren't in the market because of the holidays and it didn't phase them but an event like that one and even many smaller ones everyday take a big dump in that nice theoretical formula. Yes, you could have had a .01 trade in the market and $1000 in the account and you would have survived but most of us don't trade that way because it's not worth it unless you are LDFX.

Conclusion: Trading FX is so freaking gambling that even gambling formulas fail to address how deep a gambling venture is this thing we call trading. The fact that some people think they can reign it in by strutting their chests and calling it a business and themselves businessmen is absurd. Their thinking that they can overcome this pure by the second uncertainty of it is quite laughable.

My advice, yah go knock yourselves out by thinking you are not gambling while you are so gambling. Or just see a shrink!
  • #146
  • Feb 1, 2019 6:19pm Feb 1, 2019 6:19pm
Quoting OutThere
The backbone of LDFX's argument that FX trading is not gambling is "Positive Expectancy". Here is an article that explains what positive expectancy is: https://www.stator-afm.com/tutorial/...ve-expectancy/ After reading it, I am convinced that the author is just an academic teaching a theory and has probably never traded a thing let alone FX. Firstly, the particulars of a Roulette game are known and can be calculated almost as constants. Tell me, what is constant in FX? In sports, we have constants. For example, the goal...
I love your conclusion lol. Forex definitely does my head in. I love it and I want to make a career of it, but no one has any certain idea of where the market can go. I oscillate between thinking I need to maximize my FA and TA knowledge, and thinking forget it all there is is MM, fight hard to get a winner then fight hard to maximize its profit. Obviously our knowledge ,experience and understanding of PA is our edge, combined with MM, and the understanding that at any time our trade could be completely wrong.
  • #147
  • Edited 8:36pm Feb 1, 2019 7:55pm | Edited 8:36pm
To beat a dead horse even more and to play the devil's advocate, I can see that if you had 1 million in your pocket and bet $1 on roulette at a time hoping to win $1 (I've never played roulette so I don't know the prizes), after 1 million tries, you will certainly come out a loser because that game isn't exactly 50/50 due to the one green slot.

If you had 1 million in your account and your TP was $1 and SL was $1 and after applying the same buy/sell decision to the same pair a million times, would you come out a winner or a loser at the end? Anyone has stats on that? It should be something close to 50/50 minus broker enrichment fees and swap which lets say is the green slot.

For some reason people seem to think the first person is a gambler and the second person is a businessman but both will be net losers.

I guess what the difference is that roulette is a set game and you can't do anything other that choose between 2 outcomes where as in trading, you don't just consistently do the exact same buy/sell of the same pair with TP/SL $1 to make the playing field equal to roulette game. Fx trading has more options to play it, more flexibility, more tricks and systems and plans that you can apply to it and therefore, if you are of the businessman mind, you should be able to come up with something and make money at the end.

That said, you are still gambling. A rose by any other name is still a rose. Gambling old fashioned style like in a casino or high class style like FX trading. No guarantees that the businessman will win at the end. Success is therefore a personal thing and based on personal decisions you make. If your personal decisions on betting on red/black is always accurate, yes, you will win at roulette too.


PS. In all fairness, Roulette isn't the proper game to compare FX trading with. Poker is more like it.
  • #148
  • Feb 1, 2019 10:05pm Feb 1, 2019 10:05pm
Quoting OutThere
The backbone of LDFX's argument that FX trading is not gambling is "Positive Expectancy". Here is an article that explains what positive expectancy is: https://www.stator-afm.com/tutorial/...ve-expectancy/ After reading it, I am convinced that the author is just an academic teaching a theory and has probably never traded a thing let alone FX. Firstly, the particulars of a Roulette game are known and can be calculated almost as constants. Tell me, what is constant in FX? In sports, we have constants. For example, the goal...

Yes the article you linked explains very well positive expectancy which you can have in trading and not in gambling.

But rest assured, if you have not a system with positive expectancy then you are gambling, so I agree in a way with you

Also January 02 I had only 0.6% more loss due to slippage, those who went bankrupt were gambling that is sure and should learn how to trade instead.
LDFX Trading Ltd
  • #149
  • Feb 1, 2019 10:11pm Feb 1, 2019 10:11pm
Quoting LDFX
{quote} Yes the article you linked explains very well positive expectancy which you can have in trading and not in gambling. But rest assured, if you have not a system with positive expectancy then you are gambling, so I agree in a way with you Also January 02 I had only 0.6% more loss due to slippage, those who went bankrupt were gambling that is sure and should learn how to trade instead.
Gambling in Forex with positive expectancy is so very possible. I guess you don't know that. Very well.
  • #150
  • Feb 1, 2019 10:14pm Feb 1, 2019 10:14pm
Quoting OutThere
{quote} Gambling in Forex with positive expectancy is so very possible. I guess you don't know that. Very well.

Enlight me.

Also you forgot another « backbone «, I also said ;

»Gambling is an activity that is based upon chance or luck and has nothing to do with the skills of a person. »

Anyway the article of investopedia explains the difference very well, I do not understand why are we still debating ?
LDFX Trading Ltd
  • #151
  • Feb 1, 2019 10:23pm Feb 1, 2019 10:23pm
Sorry LDFX, you have to enlighten yourself on that since you are such a smart businessman. Us gamblers think differently and I am afraid as long as you are blind to certain facts or at least you don't open yourself up to possibilities of discovery, you won't ever find out.
  • #152
  • Edited 11:03pm Feb 1, 2019 10:29pm | Edited 11:03pm
Quoting OutThere
Sorry LDFX, you have to enlighten yourself on that since you are such a smart businessman. Us gamblers think differently and I am afraid as long as you are blind to certain facts or at least you don't open yourself up to possibilities of discovery, you won't ever find out.

Lol,

that is lame, you said knowing better.

You can not blame me to defend my opinion, if you don’t want enlight me then you can even less blame me to not be convinced and agree with you.
LDFX Trading Ltd
  • #153
  • Feb 1, 2019 10:33pm Feb 1, 2019 10:33pm
Well, this thread is not about a "big reveal".

That is fair. I don't blame you. You only know what you know and what you don't know may not harm you but it won't benefit you either.
  • #154
  • Edited 11:28pm Feb 1, 2019 10:34pm | Edited 11:28pm
Quoting OutThere
Well, this thread is not about a "big reveal". That is fair. I don't blame you. You only know what you know and what you don't know may not harm you but it won't benefit you either.

Although I asked you to enlight me.
LDFX Trading Ltd
  • #155
  • Feb 1, 2019 11:23pm Feb 1, 2019 11:23pm
I think it may have already been mentioned in other posts that "gambling" means different things to different people -- depending on your perspective. But I would like to play along and add my two cents.

On a scale of 1-10, I would say that roulette is a '10' in terms of gambling and Forex is a '6' or '7'. The difference, I believe, is whether or not there is such a thing as an "edge".

To a newbie trader Forex is probably pretty close to gambling. But to an experienced (and profitable) trader it is not gambling -- because they have an "edge" (i.e. a system). Exact same game -- for one person it is gambling and to another it is a way of making a living.

How can the same game (Forex) be both gambling to one person and not-gambling to another?
  • #156
  • Feb 2, 2019 12:25am Feb 2, 2019 12:25am
Quoting robots4me
I think it may have already been mentioned in other posts that "gambling" means different things to different people -- depending on your perspective. But I would like to play along and add my two cents. On a scale of 1-10, I would say that roulette is a '10' in terms of gambling and Forex is a '6' or '7'. The difference, I believe, is whether or not there is such a thing as an "edge". To a newbie trader Forex is probably pretty close to gambling. But to an experienced (and profitable) trader it is not gambling -- because they have an "edge" (i.e....
This is an interesting post because it bring out trading styles. Casinos win by leveraging a small edge over many many bets. Some traders do the same, they take many many trades with a weighted coin.
If you are good at something, never do it for free--Joker
  • #157
  • Feb 2, 2019 1:15am Feb 2, 2019 1:15am
in roulette things are turn based,
and talking red-black option,
it is entirely possible that all players play red, get the exact same odds, and all win, and all win the same %gain on their bet.

not so in forex.
players are not bound by hard coded turn based structure, it is 'fluid turns'.
players get in on different places/prices by the nature of supply, even if play by the analogy of all red, say all buy, thus even if all sell same time they will have a different %gain.

in roulette settling the score end of turn doesnt change the %gain in the turn.(spin)
in forex settling the score is done by opposite action, that indeed change the %gain.

a reversal (toward mean) is a workable forex option, bcos the players will need to settle their account by opposite action. something that doesnt apply to roulette, or even poker.
without settling the account the "spin" isnt over, and there is only paper profit/loss.
there is always, always another trade!!
  • #158
  • Edited 4:31am Feb 2, 2019 4:17am | Edited 4:31am
Quoting TEntropy
{quote} Do you mind fleshing out the difference between gambling and taking chances on probabilistic outcomes?
Gambling is betting that it will rain tomorrow without going outside and staying in the cave with the doors shut. Probabilitic/speculating outcome is asking the weatherman after he's examined all his weather tools such as satellite image etc and him telling you there's a 75% chance that it will rain tomorrow because of his analysis of all the data his gathered from those tools.
  • #159
  • Feb 2, 2019 7:46am Feb 2, 2019 7:46am
Quoting robots4me
I think it may have already been mentioned in other posts that "gambling" means different things to different people -- depending on your perspective. But I would like to play along and add my two cents. On a scale of 1-10, I would say that roulette is a '10' in terms of gambling and Forex is a '6' or '7'. The difference, I believe, is whether or not there is such a thing as an "edge". To a newbie trader Forex is probably pretty close to gambling. But to an experienced (and profitable) trader it is not gambling -- because they have an "edge" (i.e....
This is the best way to describe it i guess. Roulette, blackjack etc is a 9-10. Forex is a 5-6. To add more, i think shares markets is a 4-5 while real instate is a 1-2.

There is always risks in each field.
  • #160
  • Feb 2, 2019 8:19am Feb 2, 2019 8:19am
Quoting CrocodileRex
{quote} This is the best way to describe it i guess. Roulette, blackjack etc is a 9-10. Forex is a 5-6. To add more, i think shares markets is a 4-5 while real instate is a 1-2. There is always risks in each field.
for argument sake,
so on a 1-10 scale if Blackjack is 9-10, where would you place lottery or slot machines?

on the other end of the spectrum, real estate is far from the safest, surely a lot of ppl has learnt that on the hard way, for example in 2008...
not to mention that 200$ wont start you with more than a dozen bricks, or a decent mailbox.

APPL shares had huge meltdown recently, and it isnt a biotech pharma penny stock...imagine that move with a leveraged position?
on the other hand, take any forex trade with zero leverage and your account likely last just as long as a share with zero leverage....1000$ equity 0.01lot...curbs the excitement, but the losses too.

there is no risk free "investment", even holding cash in hand has no warranty, see currently Venezuela, where lately shopkeepers weight the money cos too much hassle to count it.

in the end it is by large about timing and luck.
the positive side, one can get skilled on the timing to bend his probabilities to favor.
there is always, always another trade!!
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