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Joshua Myers, CFA's avatar

Thanks for shining light on an important concept. Entropy can help us find regularity in the natural disorder of the markets.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cedarshillgroup/p/chg-issue-143-finding-order-in-disorder?r=1qscct&utm_medium=ios

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AlphaPicks's avatar

Appreciate you sharing the article. Thanks 🙌

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Alyosha's avatar

Lucid thinking. I first heard the entropy from a bean trader working for Continental Grain in the late 70s. He said it was an irreversible force acting on your P n L when you are winning. He was also the first guy I met that charted his P n L by hand during the session and often dispassionately liquidated his entire account. He selected trades carefully but treated his account as a single entity.

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AlphaPicks's avatar

Can always rely on you for some amazing stories, JJ. There are a few high stake traders I know who view their PnL in a similar way and have hard stops based on their account in place in case the market turns.

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