When to step on the gas like a pig and when to do nothing like a chicken is really what separates the greats from everyone else. You have to know your strengths, exploit them and respect your weaknesses while minimizing them.
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— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) June 16, 2021
Never let a loss exceed 8% changed his trading game for the
The big turning point in my trading came when I made a decision and vowed to NEVER EVER let a loss exceed 8%. During the next 5 years I averaged 220% per year for a total compounded return of 33,500%. It's been 28 years since and I have never broken that discipline not even once!
— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) April 26, 2021
Key early decisions to make for your trading
A few key decisions early in my trading career and my financial life completely changed for the better in just a few years.
— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) June 13, 2021
1. No big losses
2. No averaging down
3. No chasing extended stocks
4. No giving back decent profits
5. Always get odds on my money
Never listen to
Only losers discourage dreamers. Only those who never achieved big things discourage those attempting to achieve big things. Only those who think small discourage those who think big. Never believe discourages. The have no credibility! Believe winners. Believe in YOU! \U0001f447 pic.twitter.com/JdAhRy3lRJ
— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) June 14, 2021
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— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x