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Buy1Sell2
 

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01-27-06 01:44 PM

Science, do you mean 20 to 30 % of portfolio? Has that stop ever been hit?

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science_trader
 

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01-27-06 01:59 PM


Quote from Buy1Sell2:

Science, do you mean 20 to 30 % of portfolio? Has that stop ever been hit?



Yep, I meant as a percentage of whole portfolio. I never overtook -3% for the moment. But as I said it, touching such a threshold would mean there is a technical problem more than a trading problem.

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Buy1Sell2
 

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01-27-06 02:02 PM

So you basically use a catastrophic stop. just to stay in the game if all else fails ?

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Buy1Sell2
 

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01-27-06 02:12 PM

Are there any other traders here who employ the type of strategy that science uses and if so, have you been successful? By the way, science do you experience quite a few trades that you feel would have been stopped out under other systems only to turn around and be profitable ?

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murray t turtle
 

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01-27-06 02:14 PM


Quote from Buy1Sell2:

It appears that this is a combination then of both charts and account balance analysis. This may be the proper approach using both.

I wonder if there are others that use a combination or just one of the two--Best regards


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a] Probably most traders, especially @ first, think 1-3% max risk of total equity sounds too extremly low. Its about right ,1% or so.

However related to that, swing position trading say one loss, 2 losses for sure in a row usually means my med trend has changed;
so TREND [or 1 loss/any size] of equity can send you a valuable message, cut back much less than 1%. Or simply stop shorting GM now[ swingtrade recently, thank God only about 1% risked/GM] short. Medium trend did change on GM

z]Prices trend, gains trend ,losses tend to trend,thus cutting back valuable hint.And stop/ entry /exit is determned by trend lines/ma also.....

Big trends Price Headly had 2 interesting long only profitable system this am,hit rate less than 50%, so 1 or 2 losses in a row may not automaticaly send a valuable message.

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Buy1Sell2
 

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01-27-06 02:24 PM

Murray , that seems to suggest a trader may want to pass on the trades that don't fit both the charts and the total drawdown. Probably good advice I would say. Now that being said, a trader could look at a daily chart and determine that almost any market might not be in budget, but then look at intraday charts and see that there would be opportunity. What would be your opinion with regard to that, recognizing the conventional wisdom is for a trader to first be a good position trader before looking at day trades? Would the answer be more funding or is there any merit to the "postion trading first" idea.

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