How do famous swing traders like Dan Zanger size up so fast?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by excrypto, Nov 18, 2023.

  1. deaddog

    deaddog

    No one believed Darvas in his day either.
     
    #221     Nov 21, 2023
  2. hilmy83

    hilmy83

    90% bullshit and 10% real results. Can't blame people for being skeptical.

    Trading is the only job where you don't need to be "certified" profitable. Every other job needs some sort of licensing, portfolio, degree from a reputable institution.

    No wonder most of us are just so lost lol
     
    #222     Nov 21, 2023
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  3. So what is the point of tight stops if you are holding a position overnight? They ain't going to help you.
     
    #223     Nov 22, 2023
  4. taowave

    taowave

    How long have you been at this?? Are we talking minutes??

     
    #224     Nov 22, 2023
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  5. Axon

    Axon

    The tight stop is placed upon the initial entry. If the trade works, it moves up and soon he raises his stop to the 10 day moving average which isn't nearly as tight as it was initially. He can explain his system a lot better than I can. See pic related and https://qullamaggie.com/my-3-timeless-setups-that-have-made-me-tens-of-millions/

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    #225     Nov 22, 2023
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  6. tomkat22

    tomkat22

    Kris' stops seem to be flexible and discretionary (but only to a point). If he perceives a break-out is false he dont hang around long,he gets out. I think he keeps the stock on his radar though and might re-enter at his discretion.
     
    #226     Nov 22, 2023
  7. taowave

    taowave

    All the good Momo guys look for a setup to re-enter

     
    #227     Nov 22, 2023
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  8. Rams Fan

    Rams Fan

    Robbins cup day trading leaderboard from 11-17-2023

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    And through 11-21-2023

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    Hsieh, Dressel, and Bober are each still on the leaderboard and up from 11-17.

    Valentini and Stauffer are both new to the leaderboard. The leaderboard posts all who have a positive return, so those latter two just turned profitable in the past few days.

    I'll be interested to see what the leaderboard looks like after today, but it has yet to be posted.
     
    #228     Nov 22, 2023
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  9. Rams Fan

    Rams Fan

    Also noteworthy that Nykyforuk went from +23.8% to off the leaderboard, i.e. this trader gave up all gains and is now negative since the contest began on 10-01-2023.
     
    #229     Nov 22, 2023
  10. I'm sorta talking to myself here I guess, but this isn't strictly true. I'm linking to my earlier post that shows with pretty reasonable assumptions and totally conservative draw down, you can 100x in a year or 2.

    https://www.elitetrader.com/et/posts/5893196/
     
    #230     Nov 23, 2023
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