Two part question:

- What is the single most important rule of trading?

- Why?

If you are going to reply with something along the lines of "trend is your friend", I expect you to be detailed in the 'why' part of the answer.

Extra credit:

- Prove it.

Mike

1. Diversification
2. I proved it in another thread

- What is the single most important rule of trading?

There is no free lunch.

baruchs 

1. Diversification 2. I proved it in another thread

Give a link.

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baruchs 

1. Diversification 2. I proved it in another thread

Why?

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artemiso 

- What is the single most important rule of trading? There is no free lunch.

See post 1. Why?

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1. Do not lose money.

2. No money no trade.

Is this strategy good enough? Hi, Strategy that gives annual netprofit of 5K and max. DD of 1.8K. Is it good enough to trade? One more thing - this is very robust strategy. I don't want to explain yet what it means. Baruch p.s. Lets assume that those numbers include commissions …

1) Understand what you are doing
2) To stay longer in the game