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Re: systems versus discretionary traders



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In discretion trading, you have to think and trade  "systematically" too!
With stone hard confidence and discipline (this might take years) to your
specific method or the market can emotionally wrecked you, as human we are
vulnerable.

Is this where Zen comes in?


Hinton Clabaugh wrote:

> Thanks, Neal, for the interesting post.
>
> I think one advantage of discretionary  is that the brain can, on some
> level, process inumerable interacting variables, more than one could
> program, and it can adapt to changing circumstances in realtime.
> Reliability, of course, is always a question.
>
> As an aside, do you know what the S&P fellow looks at on fifty monitors?
> It's hard for me to imagine.
>