kick-in and generate a loss

12:07 Nov 28, 2012 

"plus que probable" be better than "plus tendance"? But see what the French native speakers think.

12:05 Nov 28, 2012 

Right, in that case, I think my #1 is probably the intended meaning — but I think you have got it the wrong way round. 'kick in' means '(start to) have an effect', but we have to REDUCE the extent to which this emotional response has an impact on selling policy, in order to AVOID its leading to a loss.

Perhaps something along the lines of: « Afin de minimiser le déclenchement des ces émotions qui entraînerait une perte, ... »

12:01 Nov 28, 2012 

Merci kashew. Ma traduction ci-dessus est-elle toujours valable dans ce cas ?

11:56 Nov 28, 2012 

.... an emotional investor is more likely than NOT [not "none"] to sell near the lowest.

11:55 Nov 28, 2012 

Merci Alain. Dans ce cas, pourrait-on dire tout simplement "Afin de contrôler ces émotions et générer une perte". Merci

11:54 Nov 28, 2012 

Bonjour Tony M. Merci, je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous. Je ne pense pas que l'auteur du texte soit natif et je ne savais pas où placer ce "kick-in". Je pencherais plutôt pour votre première proposition. Comment la traduire dans ce cas ? Merci

11:53 Nov 28, 2012 

Je pense que c'est la première réponse de Tony, Afin d'éviter que ces émotions n'apparaissent...

11:50 Nov 28, 2012 

This reads slightly oddly to me; have you any idea of the provenance of the text, might it have been written by a non-native? Is it US or GB?
I can think of 2 interpretations, both of which assume that the EN is less than perfect:

1) The emotions kick-in, i.e. start to have an effect; for it to mean this, the text is grammatically wrong, it ought to be soemthing like "...in order to reduce the extent to which these emotions kick in..."

2) It is the emotional investor who kicks in; doesn't make a lot of sense ot me, really, unless it could be understood in the sense of 'to react' — but to have this meaning, the EN would really take quite a bit of re-writing!