The trick is to be correct more often than a coin-flip turns up heads.
I dont get this quote, are you saying that trading is pretty much just a coinflip and its impossible to accurately make the correct trading decision? ive personally have more correct decision than flipping a coin, Ive read that there are some traders out there with track records in the 90%,
Edit: traders with a higher percentage of correct decisions is usually not day trading
I'm just saying if you're correct more than 50% of the time you'll make money in the long run.
I can't even seem to achieve that (but really have no accurate measurements), so I'd be better off using a coin myself... or maybe "inverse Adam"