If you could master one strategy, which would you choose?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Cutten, Apr 20, 2009.

If you could master one strategy, which would you choose?

  1. Buy & hold index investing

    1 vote(s)
    1.2%
  2. Deep value investing

    5 vote(s)
    6.0%
  3. Long/short equity

    19 vote(s)
    22.6%
  4. How to anticipate and follow major macro trends

    28 vote(s)
    33.3%
  5. How to speculate in growth/momentum stocks

    12 vote(s)
    14.3%
  6. How to buy near the lows of market panics

    8 vote(s)
    9.5%
  7. How to spot major stock market tops

    11 vote(s)
    13.1%
  1. space

    space

    none of these strategies are good strats
     
    #11     Apr 21, 2009
  2. geoMEAN

    geoMEAN

    a market maker bot / virtual ATM that makes me 1 tick a day on the ES regardless the number of contracts i trade, everyday, forever.
     
    #12     Apr 28, 2009
  3. None of the above. Turnover is far too low.
     
    #13     Apr 28, 2009
  4. If you want to find out about the better strategies, you need to list the full range.

    Here is a basic one that does not use price in its inner workings, either manual or as an ATS.

    The category would be: "staying on the right side of the market"

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    when trading over 500 contracts, partial fills are required for each turn. What is showing is an entry, 8 reversals, and a cover at the end of the day.

    Entry/exit trading is not a possibility when it comes to mastered trading. To me it looks like some of your choices are entry/exit oriented.
     
    #14     Apr 28, 2009
  5. geoMEAN

    geoMEAN

    Yeah that's what I was thinking. Too low of turnover. But I picked timing market bottoms because those trades are the ones that will make you a mint in a matter of days when the market recovers (assuming hypothetically that you are somehow able to pick the exact bottom of every crash). If you knew exactly where to buy, you could just go full margin each time and become a billionaire compounding the profits.
     
    #15     Apr 28, 2009
  6. some of u guys makes things way too complicated for your selves.

    none of those listed.....controlling GREED is the key.
     
    #16     Apr 28, 2009
  7. +1
     
    #17     Apr 28, 2009
  8. I could ask genie for systems like this
    http://trademanager.mt4stats.com/
    but then I already have one...

    I would rather have a Home Made Quantitative Easing Machine
    that no broker would be involved...

    :p
     
    #18     Apr 28, 2009
  9. Inside Bar Breakouts
     
    #19     Apr 28, 2009
  10. Cutten

    Cutten

    That's like saying a high-turnover strategy is bad because the profit-per trade is too low. You can't judge a strategy purely by turnover.
     
    #20     May 1, 2009