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Up to 0.5% per entry, and upto 1% per instrument when reverse pyramiding i.e. 0.5%, 0.25%, 0.25% No fixed target but 2:1 is my minimum desired....
For those who say TA does not work, they are looking at the wrong thing. You can use any of the following to generate your entry: 1) TA 2)...
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Risk per trade is directly related to opportunity factor (trade frequency). If you are a frequent intraday player, you can go down to 0.25% and...
What's your PTR? I am coming back to trading from poker too, after a hiatus from trading for several years.
So much depends on what kind of a trader you are. For example, a zero tolerance trader will remove or reduce his position if he is not proven...
I am not referring to stop size in price terms. I am referring to stop size in % of account terms, position-sized to whatever price based stop...
Phew, someone finally gets it. I don't know what a few others here are smoking.
Walter, I don't wish to sound rude, but you really have no clue as to how HFT programmes work... I suggest you go and do some reading up.
This is precisely what the HFT programmes have access to... they are front-running, using tricks such as flash orders, exploiting regulatory...
Remember folks, when we are talking about HFT we are talking about very fast machines.... only machines can exploit a few milliseconds latency...
On the issue of HFTs and low latency can I suggest that you read up on how they operate? :confused: You seem confused...
Being unable to compete because of lack of skill is one thing... Being unable to compete because HFT algos get tomorrow's WSJ today is another...
I don't think you understand that low latency due to exchange co-location in effect means front-running... albeit by milliseconds... Would you...
First of all, I don't buy into the liquidity argument in anything but the strictest of definitional senses... to have a stop gunned down to way...
I really do think that the only ways to counter the algos is 1) to trade with them at key levels 2) expand the time horizon and widen stops......
If a select number of market participants could see market action 15 minutes before the majority, you would not deem that as fair... HFTs don't...
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