i think it is helpful to distinguish between volatility and range. Range = how far price travels from high to low. Volatility = how much...
Your approach involves "predicting" too, does it not? Predicting that once price declines, it will rise again? Also in effect, predicting that...
Not necessarily. The logic of trend following isn't so much "price is more likely to go up than down at this point" as it is, "if I'm right about...
How is this different than assuming that just because price has gone down, it will then go back up?
In your backtesting, have you separated out shorts versus longs? If so, I'm curious how the performance compares.
If your account falls below $25K, you can still trade if you hold overnight. You may be hesitant to do so after your last overnight trade, but in...
There is no easy answer to this question, as no one really knows what the future holds. The best you can do perhaps is to increase position size...
Actually I think that this method is best suited to a bear market. This is because the initial position size is tiny and additional size is added...
I think the current trade you've got on is a good illustration of how this method is not particularly well suited to an uptrending market. You...
Forgot one other point: 4. If you enter the trade initially with only a small portion of your capital, keeping some in reserves to add on dips,...
Equity markets have an upward bias over time. The strategy he's using is basically to take a long position and resolve not to close it unless /...
I have read several threads started by the OP and I know one of his consistent themes is that he cannot "predict direction." The subject of...
Why did you decide to close half of the hedge today?
What is your general approach with regard to hedges? Do you have rules about when to place them and when to remove them?
The hard part about trading is that sometimes you'll find that a particular trading style works great, then all of a sudden it doesn't. A method...
There need to be more choices in the poll. Markets go up and down every day; there needs to be some kind of timeframe or limiting conditions....
Yes, it was a breakout system. Could be that the specific entry parameters they used (e.g., break of highest high of last 20 days or whatever) no...
You might be interested in reading about the "Turtles" if you haven't already. This was a group of trend-following traders whose methods used to...
Are you still trading this method? Having any success?
This gets to the heart of the issue I think. If your goal is to avoid losses, then the system you've proposed will work (although whether it will...
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