Whats your expectancy? Discretionary?
How long is a string? It would work fine for some and be catastrophic for others.
Just because you have run simulations for many years doesn’t mean anything at all objectively since only you know what went into them. The fact of...
Statistically it is a small chance any trader will be able to pull off big R:R trades with decent win rate. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t...
Form your own opinion and act on it.
If you were better at shorting stocks than longing commodities it would have been easier to do so. And vice versa. Also going long commodities...
If you want to average down you have to have a strategy with a clear goal in mind which averaging down will help you fulfill. Just doing it...
Sure, not all systems with positive expectancy are traded profitably, but all profitably traded systems have positive expectancy. My original...
No I am talking about the win rate. Obviously a system with a win rate above 55% (you can achieve 45-55% win rate by random entry so it should be...
Because a buy and hold equity indice strategy usually deals with the drawdowns by averaging down in bear markets. Since you usually won't use...
Sure when you look at it individually but a 55%+ win rate combined with a RR of at least 1:1 is a pretty significant statistic.
What you are describing are merely the evolutionary phases every trader must go through before making it. Going from ‘tell me what to do!’ to...
If you really want to learn how to trade read or listen to trade your way to financial freedom by van k Tharp and don’t put it away until you are...
You can make great money in any holding time, none are really inherently better than others. What's really important is that you choose a style...
I think we might see before the end of the day in the S&P
I understand what you mean, but calling market direction is not what trading is about. And probably not what Peter Brandt is interested in doing....
You contradict yourself, having +50% win rate does not guarantee a good risk reward setup. If you can trade H&S with an average of 4R per win and...
For me it wasn't a case of learning another 'thing' to become profitable, I became profitable after all the information I had collected about the...
Looking real good for the bulls here, closed that IR drop in a single day, getting close to closing out all my shorts at a loss and going balls...
agreed, should see atleast a 23.6 retrace of this rush up.
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