Well what matters to me is risk adjusted returns. I looked at Connors method to scale in, and what happens is that he has lots of small winners,...
I don't average down. Larry Connors likes to do this and it can achieve some very high win rates, but then the winners are smaller relative to...
My ambitions are simple. To make enough money from trading to live comfortably. While I'm still working my goal is to grow my account to make...
I wouldn't base your exit for one strategy on another independent strategy. Design each to be the best that you can make them and then see how...
Hi, In 2008 while trading long only dd was at least 20%, but I was pretty much flat for the year. Since then I have been keeping detailed stats...
It's not yet my primary source of income but I have been swing trading for a couple years. I'm averaging close to 1% per week trading long/short...
Regarding exits, in some cases they can depend on entries. For example, a mean reversion trade may exit on a return to the mean. A longer term...
Wow, that's scary. I'm sure there are plenty of unscrupulous people that would use that to their advantage.
With Android, a revolution in Apps, and a very long term cup and handle formation, it looks to me like a breakout above 630 or so would be...
My strategies with a trending component have a correlation to the market of about 75%. My counter trend are more like 25% to the market and to...
Rarely, and I've pretty much moved to long/short trading. In a bull market there are opportunities to profit shorting and in a bear market there...
VXX closed Feb 28 at 30.18, and yesterday at 32.53.
At 20% per strategy or 10% for my overall portfolio I would take a closer look at my performance and the market environment. At this point I...
These are mutually exclusive goals. If you really want to be a better trader you will have to accept that what you have lost is gone and forget...
I appreciate the well intentioned advice but stops are not the only way to control risk. I've taken more than 1000 RTM trades, including long...
That's not what CXO says, based on his public record: 1/21/10 â2010 is the year when the bear market in stocks returns in full force. â¦a...
Checkout the review of Robert Prechter's market calls here, he has been right only 23% of the time:...
I keep it simple, I buy weakness and sell strength. Sooner or later a weak stock shows some strength or a strong stock shows some weakness. I...
By normalizing market prices, do you mean something like detrending the price? For example creating a series that is difference of the price and...
It sounds to me like you were forced out because you were forcing the trade. By 11:20 the price broke the prior day's close and an intra day low,...
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