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[QUOTE="GCB, post: 1236654, member: 57911"]
No, I don't, sorry. 
 
I do know that poker has helped my trading. One thing it really helps is in realizing that one hand (trade) doesn't make you or break you. I realize more easily in poker that it's about the percentages. 
 
Another is that dry stretches are the norm, but winning will come around again. This is hard to see when you are trading because it's easy to think your trading technique doesn't work anymore, when in fact the percentage of losing trades (hands) are just getting bunched together. 
 
I've noticed my poker equity curve tends to look something like this:
 
[IMG]http://i28.tinypic.com/egnxnl.jpg[/IMG]
 
With shallow drawdowns and then big jumps when I start winning again. This is the way it should be, in trading and poker. 
 
A truism in trading is "cut your losses and let your winners run." The nice thing about poker is that if you play it right it's easy to make your winners much bigger than your losers. In trading you have to wait for your winners to get big and then sometimes they turn around and get small or become losers even. This would be equivalent to a "bad beat" in poker, where you did everything right but still lost. Happens.
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