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Ed Seykota

Born: August 7, 1946

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Biography: Edward Arthur Seykota is a commodities trader, who earned S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, both in 1969. In 1970 he pioneered Systems trading by using early punched card computers to test ideas on trading the markets. Seykota resides in Incline Village-Crystal Bay, Nevada, on the north shore of Lake Tahoe.

Ed Seykota

“The markets are the same now as they were five or ten years ago because they keep changing-just like they did then.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Koppel, Robert The Intuitive Trader: Developing Your Inner Trading Wisdom, John Wiley & Sons Inc (May 1996), ISBN 0471130478 Read it here

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Ed Seykota

“The elements of good trading are cutting losses, cutting losses, and cutting losses.”

- Ed Seykota

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“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.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Schwager, Jack D. (Editor), Market Wizards, HarperCollins (1989), page 172, ISBN 0-88730-610-1, Read it here

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“I think that if people look deeply enough into their trading patterns, they find that, on balance, including all their goals, they are really getting what they want, even though they may not understand it or want to admit it.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Schwager, Market Wizards, page 172, Read it here

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“The trend is your friend except at the end where it bends.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Schwager, Jack D. Technical Analysis, Wiley; 1 edition (December 1995), ISBN 0471020516 Read it here

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Ed Seykota

“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.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Harris, Sunny J. Trading 102: Getting Down to Business, Wiley; 1 edition (September 1998), ISBN 0471181331 Read it here

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Ed Seykota

“To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Covel, Michael W., Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets, FT Press (2007), page 59, ISBN 0-13-613718-0

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Ed Seykota

“Here's the essence of risk management: Risk no more than you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful. If there is no such amount, don't play.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Covel, Trend Following, page 59

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Ed Seykota

“Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Covel, Trend Following, page 55

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Ed Seykota

“Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your prolem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Covel, Trend Following, page 59

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“It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Covel, Trend Following, page 59

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Ed Seykota

“Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Schwager, Jack D., Market Wizards, HarperCollins (1989), page 159, ISBN 0-88730-610-1

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Ed Seykota

“I don't think traders can follow rules for very long unless they reflect their own trading style. Eventually, a breaking point is reached and the trader has to quit or change, or find a new set of rules he can follow. This seems to be part of the process of evolution and growth of a trader.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: Schwager, Market Wizards, page 166

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“When a feeling dissolves, it ceases to be your enemy and begins to be one of your allies.”

- Ed Seykota

Source/Notes: Source: FAQ - Fri, 31 Oct 2003 Thought Processes

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