as soon as u have size on your trades they take much more significance and u won't feel the detachment u experienced with one lot anymore, this is deeply rooted in our psychology, u need to have a pathology affecting your brains to ignore a pos going against u or to take huge risks: we are simply not design for that, our instincts tell us to preserve capital...that's your goal isn't it?....preserve and accumulate capital. U realize there's a huge conflict of interests within our inner wishes of compounding and the reality of risking all of the capital meant to be compounded and that this might prove to be a huge obstacle, don't u?
are you talking to me? If you are I deal with this by thinking in percent...my spreadsheet takes care of all of this...
i know that You reference the 800 percenters in the FXCM contest...how did you place or did you just observe? you need 1000 to participate,i never had that ,even if i had ,won't play with it ,cause its big to me
The exposure he suggests is twice mine, but I am ultra conservative....but he must be REAL correct in his picks to pull this off...He also states he can hold up to three days...AVERAGE
Electric. Do you trade any exotics in the Forex market? Double-touch, no touch, compounds? Or what would you recommend spreading on Fed funds futures and can you do synthetic exotics to capture expected Fed movement?