%% Partly true but mostly false. I was showing a daily loss on my daily last part of SPYG &TQQQ. Sold both. That works well with investments Good thing I help market makers /specialists when I sell;i like partial profits more than mostly false statements.
I tend to struggle greatly with this at times. I have bought and sold CL multiple times several weeks ago and made about 600 dollars profit when I could have made 10-15 thousand if I just held it. There was of course the non-significant probability of it crashing and burning too, so I was more cautious and just dumped it when I had a small profit. Today's mistake was taking too large a position (shorted YM when I should have been trading MYM) and I couldn't stand the heat when it moved against me a little bit. Overall my direction call was correct. Instead of losing $500+ I should have made at least $1,000. I would have been better off with a put on ES or SPX. This is so frustrating at times.
A Forex trader I know lost more than $330,000 with a mean reversion system on the EUR/AUD. Betting against the trend and hoping the price will return to "normal level" is a very dangerous strategy.
%% ONE game changer/past 52 weeks; low or no commissions/tends not pay dishonoring your stops. SPY/UPRO tends to uptrend long term/medium trend term/but my last upro trade accidently turned a profit into a loss/trade. UPRO does not usually gap/cr*p down like it did, especially with SPY above 200dma...………………………………………………………………………………………………………... Ive made much more with SPXL/UPRO/SPY/SPYG than I ever did with es; + dividends.
Nah, even support/resistance lines can seriously limit your profits. In general, exits based on simple moving averages are better.
i like ma too but gaps can play hell on ma in the context of what LamboFan trades. she's got em on there tho. might be worth a few minutes to look at the context. other traders as well as gap traders and premarket traders of stocks, crazy ba88888s that they are, lol, might benefit from what is on the vid. What timeframes do you like to trade? while they vary for sure, what hold times for trades you like in general?
mr Tradex, and the best thing about ma's is you don't have to draw them, they draw themselves to provide good backstops for initiating trades as well as targets for other trades. anything in this vid you'd recommend? any youtubers trading ma's that you like? Money Making Moving Averages
Exactly, unlike those subjective support/resistance lines, moving averages (as an exit tool) are easy to use and spot on the charts. The trick is to find their optimal value for the particular trading system we are using, and this requires some serious backtesting.
Yes, trading is very simple, just a couple of mouse clicks to be in any market and continually be on the right side of it. Your post reminds me of the $10k hammer tap story. Master’s of any domain make it look simple. Yes, you are correct. I’m avid advocate of his methods. Unfortunately, he is no longer with us. From the outside, yes some of his concepts are difficult to logically reason through. However, the spectrum of concepts are integrated. A sublime simplicity arises once someone does the work to understand via building their mind. One can prove to themselves the validity of his perspective via the various drills he designed - all in the archives. He was trained as an engineer, his profession was trading and his ‘beingness’ was that of an teacher and educator. The concept that initially attracted me to his work was his day-to-day demonstration of ‘paying it forward.’