Don't be an Average Joe

Discussion in 'Risk Management' started by Buy1Sell2, Dec 7, 2015.

  1. Autodidact

    Autodidact

    Infrequent but present since the 1920s, therefore, plenty of samples to make an educated judgement on its expectancy.
     
    #41     Dec 8, 2015
  2. achilles28

    achilles28

    Good for you then my man. Congrats. I couldn't figure out how to do that intraday. I saw one call from xspurt where he called a >100 pip move within 2 pips. But thAts the only time I've seen such accuracy.
     
    #42     Dec 8, 2015
  3. Autodidact

    Autodidact

    Oh Alan, good friend :)
     
    #43     Dec 8, 2015
  4. achilles28

    achilles28

    Ahhh. The connection lol.
     
    #44     Dec 8, 2015
  5. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    Had to laugh today when I read someone speaking about the viability of a controlled Martingale strategy-------------There is no such thing-----
     
    #45     Jan 8, 2016
  6. achilles28

    achilles28

    Question for you.....on a trade, at what percentage do you throw in the towel for a loss? In terms of % of account?
     
    #46     Jan 12, 2016
  7. barcadia

    barcadia

    I can't give the secret sauce away, but you don't need to average down when your entries are always extremely accurate (which they are once you know how to do it)
     
    #47     Jan 12, 2016
  8. achilles28

    achilles28

    1 point in the ES kinda accurate?
     
    #48     Jan 12, 2016
  9. and once your entries are always extremely accurate (of course you need to know how to do it) there really is nothing more to do other than hire a good accountant to count your money and keep you straight with the IRS

    (it's all in the secret sauce (which I can't reveal))

    otherwise I know of no strategy which involves averaging down which also doesn't involve averaging up. I don't like either, but since my entries are not extremely accurate (I misplaced the secret sauce recipe) I have to do both.
     
    #49     Jan 12, 2016
  10. Aj2014

    Aj2014

    There's secret sauce everywhere! Kudos though to ETcallhome and Barcadia for cracking the code and making the market your own personal ATM machine, though. Must be nice.
    Hopefully one day I'll get there too!!
     
    #50     Jan 12, 2016