Traders win 95% of the time !!!!!

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goat68 wrote:
Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:30 pm
I think it’s quite clear from the video even for me!

It’s not 95% of traders in a given year that lose,
Stats show it’s generally around 75%
Not 95%
Yeah, the opening post made no reference to the contents of the video. I think he is just having a laugh/troll.
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goat68 wrote:
Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:30 pm
Stats show it’s generally around 75%
What stats?
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People can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that. ;)
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andy28 wrote:
Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:35 am
People can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that. ;)

Who can forget, back in the day, that 8 of 10 cats prefer whiskas.....
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HorseDark wrote:
Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:56 pm
I think he is just having a laugh/troll.
Well, OP's smiley-per-post stats of 6-7-7 support this opinion and are a subtle giveaway of a clear upward trend in laughter

Even if stats don't care about opinions :ugeek:
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ShaunWhite wrote:
Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:32 pm
goat68 wrote:
Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:30 pm
Stats show it’s generally around 75%
What stats?
The ones in the video!! table with range of about 60-80% !
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ShaunWhite wrote:
Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:32 pm
goat68 wrote:
Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:30 pm
Stats show it’s generally around 75%
What stats?
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ShaunWhite
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goat68 wrote:
Sat Feb 01, 2025 2:01 pm
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What's that got to do with sports trading? It's far easier to show a small profit on financials simply by investing in index linked funds and sitting on them. With sports each market expires in minutes. They're totally different.
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In the video I use these as an example of how the regularly trotted out stat of 95% lose is wrong, then show some sports stats.
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ShaunWhite wrote:
Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:54 pm
goat68 wrote:
Sat Feb 01, 2025 2:01 pm
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What's that got to do with sports trading? It's far easier to show a small profit on financials simply by investing in index linked funds and sitting on them. With sports each market expires in minutes. They're totally different.
I didn't say it did, but nor does the title: "The Truth About Trading: Why 95% of Traders DON’T Actually Lose!"
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ShaunWhite
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Tbf I haven't seen a single frame of the video. Despite appearances I've got better things to do :)
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The sheer number of smileys (which, if I had a PHD in English I'd have spelled smilies) reduce the probabilities of a PHD to 0.187 for me.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

(See, that shows I haven't got one either :D)
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ShaunWhite
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There's winners and winners, who knows what percentage make £1, according to Betfair only 0.5% pay additional fees as significant winners.
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Blondie wrote:
Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:00 pm
The sheer number of smileys (which, if I had a PHD in English I'd have spelled smilies) reduce the probabilities of a PHD to 0.187 for me.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

(See, that shows I haven't got one either :D)
Hi Blondie
I got my Phd back in the day when you actually had to work to get it ,these days all you need is to collect 10 crisp packets and send um a tenner ...Oh no here comes the smillies smellys thingies :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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ShaunWhite wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:30 pm
There's winners and winners, who knows what percentage make £1, according to Betfair only 0.5% pay additional fees as significant winners.
I would hazard a guess that the 0.5% is bookie money ,or Dallas :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Tico
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