Recent Content by Flowfollower

  1. Any elite traders ever been banned by CFD brokers for being consistently profitable?

    What is a large amount of trades to be banned for? 10 per day.
    Post by: Flowfollower, Aug 16, 2023 in forum: Retail Brokers

  2. Prudent Risk Management Is The Only True Edge In TRADING

    After many years of strategy hopping and head bashing against a wall, I have finally been putting decent strings of winning days. It has made me...
    Post by: Flowfollower, Aug 13, 2023 in forum: Risk Management

  3. I have never met a successful trend follower

    If inflationary "glory days" are back, then is it time for trend following to shine again?
    Post by: Flowfollower, Mar 22, 2022 in forum: Trading

  4. Do you pay attention to slippage?

    In with MO. Out with LO (daytrading) Built into the expectancy of the system. No way around slippage. Increasingly negated by increasing timeframe.
    Post by: Flowfollower, Jan 26, 2022 in forum: Order Execution

  5. The myth of letting your winners run

    Ok. Using 50% was an extreme example. My point is that if you're a trend follower, you're relying on outlier trades for your profits. So why...
    Post by: Flowfollower, Mar 11, 2021 in forum: Risk Management

  6. The myth of letting your winners run

    Ok. Here's a test. You're a trend follower who believes in letting positions run. A stock you hold jumps 50% in a day. You obviously would hold...
    Post by: Flowfollower, Feb 25, 2021 in forum: Risk Management

  7. The myth of letting your winners run

    Thanks for all of the replies. My mind still comes back to each data point on a chart is unique and should have it's own risk to reward metric....
    Post by: Flowfollower, Feb 25, 2021 in forum: Risk Management

  8. The myth of letting your winners run

    Here's a famous example of holding for the big move: Had one bought AMAZON at IPO in 1997, one would have netted a 190,000% return. So many...
    Post by: Flowfollower, Dec 8, 2020 in forum: Risk Management

  9. The myth of letting your winners run

    But those "no skilled" traders would also choose when to enter. eg would they buy after a 500% move in a stock? Highley unlikely But what if they...
    Post by: Flowfollower, Dec 8, 2020 in forum: Risk Management

  10. The myth of letting your winners run

    It's been 6 months and my views haven't changed. I still view trading as a mathematical pursuit. What is not discussed is that there is a cost...
    Post by: Flowfollower, Dec 8, 2020 in forum: Risk Management

  11. Stockpickers and mediocre returns

    That's just hindsight bias. If you don't believe that is the case then please let me know which stock will rise 1000 fold from today that you have...
    Post by: Flowfollower, Aug 25, 2020 in forum: Risk Management

  12. Stockpickers and mediocre returns

    That just sounds like survivorship bias. How many high growth companies from 20 years ago are still around and performing today?
    Post by: Flowfollower, Aug 24, 2020 in forum: Risk Management

  13. Stockpickers and mediocre returns

    Doesn't CANSLIM use a 7% stop loss? Have none of these stocks corrected more than 7% ?
    Post by: Flowfollower, Aug 24, 2020 in forum: Risk Management

  14. Stockpickers and mediocre returns

    Both above approaches would not have caught the 1000 fold return on AMZN which is my point ie those who point to such returns from a stock are not...
    Post by: Flowfollower, Aug 24, 2020 in forum: Risk Management

  15. Stockpickers and mediocre returns

    I read something on Twitter about AMZN giving a 1000 fold return over 23 years. Amazing everybody said!! It got me thinking. So I plugged the...
    Thread by: Flowfollower, Aug 24, 2020, 18 replies, in forum: Risk Management