Interesting charts. Looks like neither systematic nor discretionary traders made much money in the last 10 years?
The formula posted by OP does not tell you what leverage one should take. All it tells you what your leverage is, once you are in position. And...
Suppose you identified some 30 stocks which you believe would perform worse than the overall market. You could then sell short the basket of these...
Because the notional value of a contract is a component in figuring out the the size of the trade (or equivalently the effective leverage). It can...
I am trying to tell you an important thing: how I trade is not how you should trade. With regards to S/R, start here:...
Give us your definition of support and resistance.
What does "solely support and resistance" mean? As pointed out above, S/R means different things to different people.
As wrbtrader mentions above, there are many different ways, and everyone does it differently. Simple moving averages, exponential moving averages,...
In the formula given by the OP, Notional Value = Current Future Price x Point Value The notional value is based on the current price of the...
I think the question that the OP wanted to ask is this: "Can a plumber open a $15K account and make a living by day-trading bitcoins, so that he...
What does Leonard Barton say? With regards to Kasparov vs Deep Blue, chess engines made tremendous gains since 1996 in their play quality. Humans...
Suppose you are offered to play the following game. We flip a coin. If it's heads, you lose your bet. If it's tails, you win twice the amount of...
Because your position sizing (or equivalently risk/exposure/leverage) should not be determined by the margin, but rather by the quality of your...
I'll say it again. The margin determines the maximum leverage for a given futures contract. It gives you the upper bound on the number of open...
The margin tells you the maximum leverage you can take. The actual leverage can be less, depending on your exposure (i.e. the number of open...
In your formula, the quantity (Index value x Point value) is the notional value of the contract. Your formula for calculating leverage is correct,...
What happened to all of these: Ruler says reshort 2442's Full swing short at 2443.25 Shorted ES 2452.5 Shorted ES 2457.5 Shorted 2467 Added 2468...
I've avoided all "animal" patterns ever since the "duck" pattern failed: [IMG] The ones that I follow now are all human-oriented: "hanging man",...
The OP made it very clear in the very first post that he/she is paper trading.
Yes. OP, please mark your entries and exits with the proper labels, such as "Exhibit A", and submit the brokerage statements for each execution,...
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