With 3-6% a day you will be the richest man known to mankind in no time yet you used the word 'measly'. With $10,000 initial capital, assuming...
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Those you bought in the beginning of the year and hold till date would have a net loss.
It's possible to make 30 pips a day. The question is can you make them consistently? Also it depends on your risk-reward ratio and win rate....
You could if you have a large capital. But If you merely have enough to buy a contract or two, you can't.
Index futures are leveraged by default. Take the equity market as an example, which no leverage is being used. A stock trading at $100, if the...
In the context of index futures, yes, I do agree.
First, the swap might diminish your profit. Second, have you considered commissions? The more leverage you use, the more commissions you pay. Why...
If the trend following system (50-200) were to be adjusted to have the same level of drawdown of buy-and-hold by increasing the leverage, it will...
And why is that? --------------------- October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009 Nasdaq = -54.9% S&P 500 = -56.6% Dow Jones = -53.9% Based on the article,...
It was wise that you didn't invest with him.
Bill Dunn, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, etc are technical traders. I have no doubt that one can make money using only technical analysis.
I disagree with the article and it is very misleading. Using trend following, you can actually risk higher, use higher leverage and obtain more...
If you have been trading sim for only a month, I would suggest you to trade for another few more months and see how it goes. Risking 5k on...
1. How long have you been profitable in your sim trading? 2. Which market are you day trading? 3. How many percentage could you make a month on...
Why the need of MATLAB, why not Ninja Trader?
If you day-trade, you will have a limit on the number of contracts you trade due to liquidity, hence, limited profitability. The larger your...
My opinion is while it is good to approach trading systematically or programmatically, it could not beat the traditional discretionary trading....
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