[QUOTE=arcimede$;13752]No Alan, you won't necessarily do better. That is the point of the discussion. By making these false claims you could be leading people astray. While win/loss goals may make you feel better they do nothing for your actual return over time. I'm trying to explain reality to you. Why you resist accepting a proven fact is quite beyond me.

You are not explaining reality--you are explaining the theoretical based upon mathematical probability. The reality is that Alan has cash in the pocket because he was lucky enough to be on the right side of the bell curve, and that because of his win goals and loss limits, he didn't give all the profits back. Now theoretically, without those goals and limits, he could have kept playing. And since his ER is 99%(for sake of example) he would expect to lose. Also, as you have so clearly stated earlier in this thread, the magnet would start to draw him back down to the ER. So you can't have it both ways Arc---yes he may have won more if he kept playing, but the ER---the probability--was that he would lose, so he done good.