Recent Content by tradermn

  1. Risk Management - Mini Sized Dow

    Sounds fine to me as long as you are a good trader. With that level of risk/reward you need to be right more than 60% of the time.
    Post by: tradermn, Jun 10, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  2. Worst Scenario?

    Read the original post, he said: "p.s. I dont consider events such as the flash crash as valid seeing how they are too infrequent. I am looking...
    Post by: tradermn, Jun 10, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  3. What's your maximum allocation to a single stock, sector, or market?

    I don't think the correct question is how much do you allocate as much as it is how much do you risk. I might ALLOCATE 100% of my capital to a...
    Post by: tradermn, Jun 9, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  4. Risk Management - Mini Sized Dow

    Huh? the Dow and SP500 are largely correlated so they are the same difficulty to trade. Yes, I know they don't move the SAME, but they are very...
    Post by: tradermn, Jun 9, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  5. Worst Scenario?

    The answer to your question depends on many variables. Are you asking how bad can a single trade go? I guess IF you were trading stocks it's...
    Post by: tradermn, Jun 9, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  6. A success story

    Almost two years, no real long vs short bias, it's 67%long/33%short You have a good point about the 7/5 spread. Currently 5 points about .40%....
    Post by: tradermn, Jun 8, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  7. A success story

    Hello fellow traders, I've lurked here for years and want to share my success story with the crowd. I started trading stocks in 2005 and made...
    Thread by: tradermn, Jun 8, 2011, 13 replies, in forum: Risk Management