Quotes About Analysis

a greater probability of one thing happening over another. In a sense, technical analysis allows you

When you operate from the assumption that more or better analysis will create consistency, you will be driven to gather as many market variables as possible into your arsenal of trading tools. But what happens then? You are still disappointed and betrayed by the markets, time and again, because of something you didn't see or give enough consideration to. It will feel like you can't trust the markets; but the reality is, you can't trust yourself.

However, market analysis is not the path to consistent results. It will not solve the trading problems created by lack of confidence, lack of discipline, or improper focus.

When you operate from the assumption that more or better analysis will create consistency, you will be driven to gather as many market variables as possible into your arsenal of trading tools. But what happens then? You are still disappointed and betrayed by the markets, time and again, because of something you didn't see or give enough consideration to.

objective perspective

I define random trading as poorly-planned trades or trades that are not planned at all. It is an unorganized approach that takes into consideration an unlimited set of market variables, which do not allow you to find out what works on a consistent basis and what does not.

you asked me to distill trading down to its simplest form, I would say that it is a pattern recognition numbers game.

Think about what you're thinking. When you consciously analyze the ideas you've formed about a person and weigh these perceptions against reality, you can rewire your brain and build new, more accurate perceptions. Then you'll be communicating with the person who's really in front of you—not the fictitious character conjured up by your false perceptions.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

The risk-averse are rarely emboldened by data.

Collecting data using improper methods can spoil any statistical analysis

The very concept of long-term confinement, a constitutive element of mass incarceration in the U.S., is made worse by overcrowded and inhumane conditions, and has been analyzed and criticized as torture.

Increasing the Reliability of Observational Methods To be useful, observational

Scientific Approach 7 Systematic Empiricism 7 Public Verification 7 Solvable Problems 8 The Scientist's Two Jobs:

quasi-experimental

The whole point of American journalism has always been detachment from authority so that critical analysis is possible.

A key prerequisite to thinking and writing funny is understanding funny. And

Psychoanalysts learn a great deal about patients by listening to their humor. And you can learn a great deal about your own psychological makeup by constantly asking yourself (and answering truthfully), Why did I laugh at this joke and not at others?

Editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.