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trendfollowing's Commentaries

Aug 19 2009

Efficient Market Bullshit

by trendfollowing
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I love it when people tell me the trend following ‘winners’ are the lucky survivors. In my humble opinion people who think like that are either ignorant in the short-term willing to learn/be corrected or, and I say this bluntly, losers in life unable to accept reality. If trend following winners are the lucky monkeys hitting the keyboards, than the king of the monkeys must be Warren Buffett. Buffett himself makes the case for why this is bullshit (there is no other word) in an excerpt from Snowball:

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Book excerpt idea courtesy of BreakoutStocks.

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