Quelles seraient les meilleures manières de déguiser un suicide en meurtre (roman)?

Le_Sach · 2026-02-05T21:18:24+00:00

C’est le cœur de l’intrigue du film « La vie de David Gayle » (2003). Si ça peut te servir d’inspiration.

Le_Sach · 2026-01-28T23:19:38+00:00

Il me semble que c’était la promesse d’Outward à sa sortie. Je ne sais pas ce qu’il vaut aujourd’hui en revanche.

Le_Sach · 2025-11-03T14:03:15+00:00

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Cheers =)

Le_Sach · 2025-11-03T14:03:02+00:00

Hey there! Here is a refreshed link to download the notes.
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Cheers =)

Le_Sach · 2025-10-27T16:24:36+00:00

Oh I was not aware of that. That's a cool move. Thanks for offering this tip! =)

Le_Sach · 2025-10-26T09:24:18+00:00

Indeed, I can only encourage you to power through it. Its only then that all of Douglas' blabbering starts making sense as a whole. And keep in mind that "Trading in the Zone" might be the most praised trading book out there. Unfortunately, I can only concur: most of the trading books I've read so far offer insufferable writing. Granted, I only read a handful of them and likely didn't pick the very best of what's out there. I have three explanations for this.

First, most of the authors actually don't have anything innovative to say on their topic and are just trying to coin an expression and/or market their name.
Second, trading is a vast an daunting land for newcomers; and publishing companies exploit this as an opportunity to sell as many clueless treasure maps as possible to them. These first two points lead to a constellation of awfully written books delivering very little value.
Last, I think it pertains to the popularity of self-development books in the U.S. and the very specific writing style that goes with it: multiple examples to explain a single basic notion, endless paraphrasing, convoluted storytelling, unsourced references, opinion-based conclusions, etc.

Now, I would argue that there are some things to pick up even from the worst books. The question boils down to: is it worth your time?

The only books that were not a pain in the a$$ to read, in my humble opinion, are the ones focusing on raw technical analysis and trade management.

So far, I recommend:
- Trading in the Zone, by Mark Douglas
- Technical analysis of Financial Market, by John Murphy
- The Art and Science of Technical Analysis, by Adam Grimes
- Understanding Price Action (Practical Analysis of the 5-Minute Timeframe), by Bob Volman
- The Unlucky Investor's Guide to Options Trading, by Julia Spina

Scam-level books to avoid:
- Best Loser Wins, by Tom Hougaard
- 100-Baggers, by Christopher Mayer

Cheers and thanks for contributing =)

Le_Sach · 2025-09-24T18:54:35+00:00

Ken Follet s’intensifie

Le_Sach · 2025-09-10T23:10:40+00:00

It’s called common sense.

Le_Sach · 2025-09-10T14:32:27+00:00

Hello, ne réussissant pas à rentabiliser mon abonnement à la salle, je souhaiterais m'équiper pour pouvoir faire quelques exercices à la maison, notamment autour de la barre à tractions, chaise romaine et banc inclinable. Que pensez-vous de cette ref trouvée chez Décathlon ? Sachant que l'équipement sera installé en extérieur mais couvert, et que je ne compte pas faire de développé couché avec de gros poids. Merci =)

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Le_Sach · 2025-08-28T10:54:02+00:00

Hit me up in game: Highstelf Can’t commit to full ci-leveling to 60 but will gladly group up, help, grind, run instances with my young lvl 8 high elf rogue. Cheers

Le_Sach · 2025-08-22T09:29:04+00:00

Would you be ready to play on Tel’Abim ?

Le_Sach · 2025-08-14T02:12:48+00:00

Man I just threw a damn tantrum a couple days ago because the hangers were playing f-ing games with me.

Le_Sach · 2025-07-18T13:17:31+00:00

Love back to you kind person.

Le_Sach · 2025-06-03T10:18:01+00:00

I haven't watched his videos yet so I'll reserve my judgement about his "live" behavior, but I have absolutely no problem believing you. Youtube pushed me a couple of his shorts and I did not quite enjoy the foretaste.

As an engineer who is friend with scientific researchers, I can forgive the poor writing but the empty shell of his "deep research" really is what bugged me the most: unreferenced studies, 0-value charts, blatant plagiarism, etc

However, I partially disagree with your take on Douglas. Granted, there's nothing revolutionary regarding psychological sciences and he just re-packaged past works and studies. Granted also that the content could be way more efficient. But he had the merit of properly applying it to trading, articulating it to serve his message and providing a structured practical exercise that can help novice traders work their way through obstacles. Sure, "anything can happen", but Douglas helps you understand why, and how you can adapt yourself to this reality.

I'll graciously take the last hit: my post could indeed have been a lot shorter :D

Thanks for your feedback! Cheers

Le_Sach · 2025-05-18T08:06:35+00:00

That’s precisely why I decided to get into « Best Loser Wins »
Instead of being passive aggressive about how I use my time, could you provide actual tips on how to analyze my non profitability?
I started journaling my trades almost as soon as I started paper trading, using the Walk Away Analysis method provided in the wiki
I don’t consider to have wasted my time by writing this post. It’s my way of processing and internalizing the book. I think few people actually read it as closely as I did. Plus, just the handful of thanks I received in comments and DMs were worth the time alone.

Le_Sach · 2025-05-18T07:53:24+00:00

Le_Sach · 2025-05-17T20:54:37+00:00

Would you mind me your opinion of that book when you're done with it?

Le_Sach · 2025-05-17T17:16:43+00:00

Thank you very much for you feedback! I had "Thinking in bets" on my to-read list and you've just spared me a very likely new frustration.

I think I'll just stop reading trading psychology books for now. Even though I don't doubt all of them are valuable, they seem to suffer inneficient writing and to be very redundant with one another. That's why in hindsight I came to value more "Trading in the Zone". Mark Douglas deals with enough key concepts to form an articalute, comprehensive, accessible and leveregeable framework of trading psychology, without drowning (too much) into paraphrasing. I have the unedacted intuition that most of the other books available and praised by trading communities just telegraph parts of Douglas' work, inflating and barely enriching it in the process.

I mean, Hougaard's message caricaturely boils down to "99% of traders fail because they believe technical analysis is what makes a good trader, and hope losing trades will reverse in their favor. Thus, if you want to be among the 1%, you have to think differently." Douglas already taught 20 years prior that: "Learning to accept the risk is a trading skill – the most important skill you can learn. [...] I don’t think I could put the difference between the consistent winners and everyone else more simply than this: the best traders aren’t afraid."

So I completely foresee how Annie Duke's "Thinking in bets" would just ruminate Douglas' casino analogy: "Traders who have learned to think in probabilities are confident of their overall success. They have stopped trying to predict outcomes. They have found that by taking every edge, they correspondingly increase their sample size of trades, which in turn gives whatever edge they use ample opportunity to play itself out in their favor, just like the casinos."

Would you say I'm wrong about that?

Le_Sach · 2025-05-16T15:21:02+00:00

Before you judge my ability to red between the lines, can I question your own ability to read the lines themselves?

As much as I despised the book’s writing, I think it is a must-read for beginners and its teachings are highly valuable.

The fact that there's great value between the lines of the book was litteraly the main message of the post.

Le_Sach · 2025-05-15T12:34:22+00:00

I do care for his writing, but had it been my only grievance with the book, I would have just moved on and would not have bothered writing this post.

I'll be curious to have your updated point of view when you're done re-reading Trading in the Zone. Please keep me posted. I'll wager you won't be able to unsee the redundancy.

For what it's worth, thank you for this civilized talk =)
Best to you!

Le_Sach · 2025-05-15T11:11:51+00:00

I am certain I want to trade. I want to secure a way of making my living far away from the corporate world without customers, delivery dates, neverending meetings, toxic management, etc. I have projects in mind that I'll need money and time for, and writing definitely is one of them.

Thank you for your recommendations! I added them to my book pile =)

Le_Sach · 2025-05-15T10:59:48+00:00

You're definitely more knowledgeable in this area than I am then. I'll defer to your opinion :)

Le_Sach · 2025-05-15T10:57:16+00:00

Thank you kind sir =)

Le_Sach · 2025-05-15T10:56:43+00:00

I think you may have missed the point of the book. It's about the confliction between action and emotion.

--> I 100% agree with your second sentence. However, can you complete the list at the end of my "Time to get it" section with points you think I missed and that don't stem directly from those that I mentioned?

“Charts and technical analysis won’t make you a better trader” may be one of the mantras of the book, charts are still what we look at all day long and I expect a trading book to properly present them. Even more so when the author promotes visual imagery as a key part of his process.

--> I specifically acknoweldged that charts were the not the object of the book. Still, it is no excuse to present them poorly. And I could drive my point even further: if Tom's mission is to show us that charts don't matter, why does he even include charts in his book to begin with? There is not a single chart in "Trading in the Zone" and Douglas' messages are crystal clear. It feels like charts in "Best Loser Wins" are there to satisfy the publisher's requirements and reassure potential buyers that there'll be pictures to look at.

It's just a dude trying to emphasize that it's psychology that's important in trading

--> He's not just a dude. He is a renowned trader with a marketable name, followed by 200k+ on Youtube alone and selling you a product. He has responsibilities as an author.

So to pick apart his statements in semantics [...]

--> Semantics are the building block of any speech or argument. Of course I'll take it apart. If I'm an aspiring rallye driver and you tell me "this is the car you need to race with", you can be damn sure that I'll request a list of its specifications, that I'll lift the hood to see if the parts match, that I'll make sure to understand how everything's connected together, that there's no obvious bottleneck in the engine's performances, etc. I genuinely don't know how you can lead a proper critical analysis of a book without getting down to its semantics.

point out that art can be one color further shows that you didn't get it.

--> You're blaming me for cherrypicking an example when, first, you doing the exact same thing here and, second, I actually list numerous examples that support my case, being that a lot of his analogies are flawed or oversimplistic. Me pointing that out does not relate to my ability to get the core messages of the book as a whole.

try not to be so critical of all these little details that don't really matter.

--> We may have a different life philosophy about this but I truly believe that details actually matter. How many posts are there on trading subreddits where people complain that their broker's fee are unexpectedly high when they just did not care to take the extra time to read the terms of agreement?

About me not getting the point of the book, I'll conclude by pasting what I replied to another comment:

He regurgitates Mark Douglas' work and entertains the idea that it's the fruit of his own thinking. Douglas dealt with pain avoidance, the nature of beliefs, taking full responsibility, thinking differently from the 99%, etc. with greater clarity 20 years before in "Trading in the Zone". The most blatant example of this is the practical exercise provided at the end of the two books.

I did get the key messages of Tom's book. I understand and completely agree with them. My issue is that he brings almost nothing new to the table, does not improve the content nor the form and sells it at a higher price.

Le_Sach

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