To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading.

If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.

Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.

Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.

My style is basically trend following, with some special pattern recognition and money management algorithms.

It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.

Traders and Surfers both have to deal with feelings of missing out on the small ones, until the big one comes along. They also have to deal with feelings of staying with the big one.