So what will you be posting about it? Sounds interesting to me.
You are right of course. Something else for the to do list.
Yes I have found this too. I have tested a few systems using pullbacks compared to just jumping into a rising trend, and have never found the...
…it’s 2.15 UK time and you go to set your automated trading program to run on the Dow Jones opening at 2.30, and realise that British Summer Time...
There is also a slight difference in say putting money on card counting at blackjack or playing poker, compared to trading the markets. That is...
It sounds like one of those irregular verbs; I invest, you trade, he just gambles. In a sense buying or selling shares, indices, currencies or...
Well in theory you just need a system with a positive expectancy, and keep trading it, scaling up as your account increases in size. The point of...
Thanks for this; nice to see a positive post about the possibilities of trading. In most fields it is usually accepted wisdom that things were...
No an average of a 1 percent gain with a 2 percent maximum risk of capital.
One percent profit per trade so: 1.01 raised to 700th power=1059.16 * 1000 (original stake) = 1,059,160
Semi-serious question. Assuming you are a day trader risking say 2% of capital on a trade, with perhaps an expected win on average of half that...
Thanks again for all the interesting responses on this thread. There is some justification in asking what I mean by asking whether markets...
Yes you are right userque, though I covered it to some extent in the original post "clearly the market is sometimes going up, sometimes going...
Thanks for all the responses on this thread; I had to do the day job today, so only just got back to this in the last hour or so. It’s a shame...
It seems a common theme with traders that they find an edge in the market which works for a while, but then the market 'changes' and the edge...
Thanks for all the comments; they have been very helpful. For the record, I only use stop orders at the moment, not stop limit orders, but I can...
Thanks for this. I do have all of those in place (apart from knowing what I am doing, which is very much a work in progress), so you are probably...
Thanks; yes I get this. Maybe my concern should be more with a very sudden market move (say a few thousand points on the Dow) rather than a flash...
Yes insurance can be expensive. I do spread bet on the Dow so could use guaranteed stops, but as you say, it is probably expensive and...
Thanks very much for sharing this, and bad luck for the 6k loss - that is just the sort of situation I was trying to prepare for. I shall look at...
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