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by notahacker 1104 days ago
And to add to that, the fundamental problem with novices relying on signals in financial markets is that past performance is not a guarantee of future results, and that applies particularly in short term trading where the "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller" strategies that generate superficially impressively consistent results do so because they're trading against a risk which will wipe out most of traders' capital and all their gains when it occurs every few years...