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\"Trading
Trading and finance tips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trading tips and advice, some good lessons by very good and famous traders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Price, risk management and emotional behavior<\/span><\/p>\n

For Dennis and the turtles, price was the only information that mattered. Lessons also focused extensively on risk management and avoiding emotional behavior. The turtles were taught that losses must be cut short – to become attached to a trade is to court disaster. Conversely, profits should be allowed to run until the trend came to an end.<\/span>
\nIt was the basic outline of the philosophy that virtually all trend followers adhere to today (the long volatility profile which exchanges small but frequent losses for rare but much larger gains), but in the early 1980s, it was somewhat revolutionary – proving quite successful for the turtles. According to Covel, the Turtles were able to produce excellent returns, and Eckhardt was forced to concede that Dennis had been right – you could teach ordinary people the skills necessary to be successful traders. He\u2019d lost the bet, but the stakes had never been the point (nor, indeed, could anyone say whether the bet had defined any stakes to begin with). They had in many ways laid the foundation for the adoption of systematic trend following amongst traders and asset managers.<\/span>
\nThe Turtles<\/span><\/p>\n

Protective stops<\/span><\/p>\n

I set protective stops at the same time I enter a trade. I normally move these stops in to lock in a profit as the trend continues. Sometimes, I take profits when a market gets wild. This usually doesn\u2019t get me out any better than waiting for my stops to close in, but it does cut down on the volatility of the portfolio, which helps calm my nerves. Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating. Before I enter a trade, I set stops at a point at which the chart sours.<\/span>
\nED Sykota<\/span><\/p>\n

Making money with short term trading<\/span><\/p>\n

Having a quote machine is like having a slot machine on your desk – you end up feeding it all day long. I get my price data after the close each day.<\/span>
\nDay Trading is an exercise in limiting profits while continuing to pay normal transaction costs. Day trading may provide a way to cover up deep feelings that the trader does not wish to face.<\/span>
\nShort Term Trading is one good way to realize your intention of reducing account equity.<\/span>
\nIntraday trading is tough since the moves are not as big as for long-term trading and there is no comparable reduction in transaction cost. In general, short-term trading systems succumb to transaction costs and execution friction. You might simulate your system over historical data and notice how sensitive it is to assumptions about where you get your fills.<\/span>
\nThe shorter the term, the smaller the move. So profit potential decreases with trading frequency. Meanwhile, transaction costs stay the same. To compensate for profit roll-off, short-term traders have to be very good guessers. To improve guessing skills, you can practice dealing cards from a standard deck, one at a time. When you become very good at it you might be able to make money with short term trading.<\/span>
\nED Sykota<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Famous
Famous traders in history<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How to trade stocks<\/span><\/p>\n

In How to Trade in Stocks, Jesse Livermore discussed \u201cthe folly of trying to find out a good reason why you should buy or sell a given stock.\u201d<\/span>
\nHe wrote in the context of the behavior of U.S. stocks, whose four major sectors \u2013 including steel makers \u2013 had risen after World War 2 began. While other sectors continued to advance, U.S. steel stocks stopped rising.<\/span>
\nLivermore wrote that there must have been a good reason why the steel stocks had stopped rising but he didn\u2019t know what it was.<\/span>
\nIt was not until four months later that the public was given the facts and the action of the steel stocks \u2013 which had by now fallen 26 to 29 points \u2013 was finally explained. The British and Canadian governments had been selling large volumes of shares in U.S. steel makers. (Presumably to fund their war efforts.)<\/span>
\nThe Action of the Market Should be Reason Enough<\/span>
\n\u201cIf you wait until you have the reason given, you will have missed the opportunity of acting at the proper time!<\/span>
\n\u201cThe only reason an investor or speculator should ever want to have pointed out to him is the action of the market itself.<\/span>
\n\u201cWhenever the market does not act right or in the way it should \u2013 that is reason enough for you to change your opinion and change it immediately.<\/span>
\n\u201cRemember: there is always a reason for a stock acting the way it does.<\/span>
\n\u201cBut also remember: the chances are that you will not become acquainted with that reason until some time in the future, when it is too late to act on it profitably.\u201d
\nJesse Livermore
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

To Average Down or Not?<\/span><\/p>\n

In How to Trade in Stocks, Jesse Livermore wrote:<\/span>
\nI have warned against averaging losses. That is a most common practice.<\/span>
\nGreat numbers of people will buy a stock, let us say at 50, and two or three days later if they can buy it at 47 they are seized with the urge to average down by buying another hundred shares, making a price of 48.5 on all.<\/span>
\nHaving bought at 50 and being concerned over a three-point loss on a hundred shares, what rhyme or reason is there in adding another hundred shares and having the worry double when the price hits 44?<\/span>
\nAt that point there would be a $600 loss on the first hundred shares and a $300 loss on the second hundred shares.<\/span>
\nIf one is to apply such an unsound principle, he should keep on averaging by buying two hundred shares at 44, then four hundred at 41, eight hundred at 38, sixteen hundred at 35, thirty-two hundred at 32, sixty-four hundred at 29 and so on.<\/span>
\nHow many speculators could stand such pressure?<\/span>
\nSo, at the risk of repetition and preaching, let me urge you to avoid averaging down\u2026 Why send good money after bad?<\/span>
\nKeep that good money for another day. Risk it on something more attractive than an obviously losing deal.<\/span>
\nPyramiding<\/span>
\nIn practice, Jesse Livermore would have traded with the trend, against the \u201csuckers\u201d who were trying to average down.<\/span>
\nSince the stock price was falling, he would have sold it short and, as the price continued to fall, he would have pyramided his position.<\/span>
\nEvery time the market moved in his favor, he would have bought a larger number of shares than he had bought the previous time.<\/span>
\nHis gains would be identical to the losses incurred by someone who was averaging down.<\/span>
\nComments<\/span>
\nI use to average up and down but never below my initial stop loss and respecting my maximum position sizing level and all my criteria settings to be in.<\/span>
\nAveraging is a natural instinct.What one needs to succeed is to go against the basic instinct.
\nJesse Livermore
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Hold Your Position Until the Trend is Invalidated, Do Not Let Go of Your Position. Be Willing to Experience Your Anxieties<\/span><\/p>\n

Maintaining a commitment is particularly important when it comes up for a test.<\/span>
\nSomewhere along the line of keeping your commitment you may get a feeling that you don\u2019t like.<\/span>
\nIf you are willing to experience the feeling, it can transform into an AHA that supports your commitment.<\/span>
\nIf you are unwilling to experience the feeling, you might abandon your commitment to try to make the feeling go away. That only results in having to feel the feeling after all.<\/span>
\nThe more you are willing to experience the feeling of bumping into walls, the less you have to bump into walls.<\/span>
\nTrading requires skill at reading the markets and at managing your own anxieties.<\/span>
\nPeople have a Conscious Mind and Fred. Fred wants to communicate feelings to CM so CM can experience them and gain experience and share it with Fred so Fred can learn how to react. This is how we manufacture wisdom. When we don\u2019t like our feelings we tie them in k-nots and do not experience them. This interrupts the wisdom manufacture process, and draws drama into our lives.<\/span>
\nK-nots, protect us from truth and keep our lives in drama. To untie k-nots, fully experience whatever appears in the moment.<\/span>
\nWhen you keep your eye on the prize and are willing to experience all the feelings that arise, the prize soon becomes yours.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Trading
Trading and finance advices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Risk Below 5% of Equity Per Trade<\/span><\/p>\n

I intend to risk below 5% on a trade, allowing for poor executions. Occasionally I have taken losses<\/span>
\nabove that amount when major news caused a thin market to jump through my stops.<\/span>
\nRisk no more than you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful. If there is no such amount, don\u2019t play.<\/span>
\nSpeculate with less than 10% of your liquid net worth. Risk less than 1% of your speculative account on a trade. This tends to keep the fluctuations in the trading account small, relative to net worth. This is essential as large fluctuations can engage Fred and lead to feeling-justifying drama.<\/span>
\nBetting more boldly produces more volatility. Good traders are familiar with both and keep their trading well within their tolerances.<\/span>
\nI use a rule of thumb that you place less than 10% of your liquid net worth at risk and that you stop your losses at 50% of that \u2013 so you have net exposure of 5% of your liquid net worth. If you have a net worth of 1.5 million, you might have liquid net worth (cash, stocks, bonds, etc) of, say, about 500,000 (a wild guess). Then you might place $50,000 of that at risk and cut your loss if you lose $25,000.<\/span>
\nThe idea is to keep the venture below your threshold of financial importance, so nominal ups and downs do not trigger your emotional uncle point and motivate you to abandon the venture during drawdowns.
\nED Sykota<\/span><\/p>\n

Do Not Shut Out or Ignore Your Fear<\/span><\/p>\n

The positive intention of fear is risk control.<\/span>
\nPeople who are unwilling to experience fear tend to take big risks and wind up in big drama in which the risk materializes.<\/span>
\nPeople with poor risk control tend to bet heavy. So they tend to outperform others in good markets, and under-perform them in poor ones.<\/span>
\nRisk is the uncertain possibility of loss. If you could quantify risk exactly, it would no longer be risk.<\/span>
\nRisk control has to do with your willingness to allow your stop to do its job.<\/span><\/p>\n

And last but not least always keep very well in mind that:<\/span><\/p>\n

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing;<\/span>
\nAmateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money;<\/span>
\nRepetition breeds familiarity. Familiarity diminishes fear;<\/span>
\nBeing wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable;<\/span>
\n Being wrong isn\u2019t a choice, but staying wrong is;<\/span>
\nGood judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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