How many times have we heard from some investor or trader telling you personally or through some social media application the famous words “I told you so”. 

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It could be irritating and disturbing at times when we were told of such words; irritating that it may be construed as a conceited statement, and disturbing to the point that one may doubt his/her investing/trading thesis and viewpoints.

All these could be boiled down to one thing: the assumed ability to predict the markets. A lot of us are trying to predict the markets, but no matter how hard we work on it, it is very hard to even tell what would happen eventually.

We could get things right when the planets align to our favour, which to most events it will occur. The difficult part is to know when it manifests. Throughout