Making bets with a couple hundred dollars is worlds apart from risking thousands at a time, from a psychological perspective. Trades you took...
I try to trade low p/e and high dividend companies to limit downside. I stay away from things like biotech.
Thanks. The way I think about it — the main portion in the SP500 is my own money. The interest I pay on the leverage is about $500 per month (on...
Some interesting points here. Just for clarification my form of hedging is diversification since I hold about 10-15 positions at $10k each and...
I get your point. Totally. However, my conspiracy theory is that the market is “conscious” of stop losses and will try to gobble up as many as...
Believe it or not, as you can see from my July trade history, I seldom take losses. If I had to guess, I'm thinking I give up on 1 in 20 trades...
Thanks for the feedback. By keeping my positions limited to $10K, I think my biggest risk would be about $3-5K (~50% loss), which is less than 1%...
Cool. Glad someone else approves. I'm a "buy the dip" type trader. I will often scour the day's biggest losers for good companies. I only trade...
The amounts listed are profits from swing/day trading. My gains from the S&P500 are about $15K.
I have about $500K in my trading account. Realizing that it is difficult to beat the S&P500 over the long term as a day trader, I have devised...
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