do you worry your method will stop working?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by chipmunk, Sep 11, 2008.

  1. No matter how I make money I always wory tomorrow it wil lall stop..then what?

    Are you the same with your day trading? Worry about your method will start losing money?

    What would you do? Do you have a job/career/ investments you can fall back on?
     
  2. trendy

    trendy

  3. ITR2744

    ITR2744

    the more complex a strategy is, the more prone it is to stop working... build your trading plan upon general principles which work in (almost) every market condition...
     
  4. you got one?

    :)
     
  5. ITR2744

    ITR2744

    I'm still looking for...

    seriously, from time to time I have also these worries like you... Who knows what's going to work in 20 years? Since they started this huge machine yesterday in Geneva we'll fall into a black hole anyway...
     
  6. gnome

    gnome

    The market has always made sporatic "shifts". That's why an investor can go along for quite a while having success, then have trouble and not have changed his behavior.

    When things are working, you need to make something of it. Then be on the look-out for when that no longer works and you have to "go back to the drawing board". It has always been thus.
     
  7. You probably need at least 2 kinds of systems: a trend following system and a mean reversion system.

    At least you'd be covered for the 2 main market conditions: trending and chop.
     
  8. buylo

    buylo

    I worry about this constantly. When sh!t gets choppy and unreadable I think to myself, "is the party over?" I have no intentions of going back to grind and have learned that patience, whether for a day, a month, or many months, is something that must be learned and constantly applied. If stuff isn't working, stop and be ready to not make money for a bit.

    My boss has been a scalper / day trader for 25 years. Everytime the market changes, he tells me, "they will be back." So far for the past 9 years, he has been right.
     
  9. I'm way more concerned with myself not following my method than I am about the method itself failing.
     
  10. wave

    wave

    Your mean reversion system should have a 90% hit rate and your trend following around 50%.
     
    #10     Sep 11, 2008