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    Averaging down is addictive

    Adding to losing position, or Stop-and-reverse; that is the question. :D
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    Averaging down is addictive

    "clearly wrong to begin with" ... LOL
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    Averaging down is addictive

    As long as no overtrading is involved, or the maximum size of each trade is well-defined, the above two ways for entry according to plan can be basically and virtually about the same, imo.
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    I don't understand this: "I am now fully hedged"

    On the same page 271: Q Closing 10/24/86: DM 2.0355 Yen 161.7 UQ
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    I don't understand this: "I am now fully hedged"

    Patton, ... "Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I read your book." Enough said. --- Paul Tudor Jones II (The Alchemy of Finance, George Soros, Page 2 Foreword)
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    I don't understand this: "I am now fully hedged"

    Q "Too much life story, not enough trading - a disappointment. ... In contrast with "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator", Soros' "Alchemy of Finance", and the "Market Wizards" books, "No Bull" is disappointingly lightweight and lacking in insight." "The book should be sub-titled "my life...
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    I don't understand this: "I am now fully hedged"

    Would you mind to share a list of books that are written by real operators of hedge funds? I would appreciate that. TIA.
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    I don't understand this: "I am now fully hedged"

    Many times that's correct, but not always.
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    I don't understand this: "I am now fully hedged"

    We don't have to be hedge funds operators in order to learn how other people trade from this kind of books, that would be the only valid source supplying information of how real traders trade. So what would be the books you read?
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    Fx futures Journal

    I'm afraid the previous saying of 1,000 pips per contract without mentioning time interval would be probably unclear/ ambiguous. Using yearly basis, your figure then would be 2,000 pips per contract per year on average. My calculation is trading "without leverage" would produce about 15% to...
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    Fx futures Journal

    Do you have any figures of returns % for reference?
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    Fx futures Journal

    That's without leverage. How many times you attain this performance per year? Say if 5 times, that would be 5,000 pips per year, about 20 pips average per day.
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    Fx futures Journal

    So whether you actually stay in a position trade (until changing direction/ position?), or else? :confused:
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    Fx futures Journal

    Are you saying you earn 1,000 pips per contract by trading EURUSD without any leverage? That's truly amazing! :confused:
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    range vs trend and time of the day

    My guess is your findings would be quite right some of the times.
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    How far did you go net negative before you became net positive?

    Why DD is measured in $, why not in %? :confused:
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    DRT's Currency Trades

    Perhaps whether EURUSD hitting 1.130, 1.30 or else by the end of Oct 2006 is not that important. My newbie guess is when trading EURUSD with futures/ spot/ options, Anyone who IS able to know/ predict an upcoming (whatever) price level in the near future (within such a short time span) would...
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    DRT's Currency Trades

    Amazing! :D
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    Stops

    Said by: 1. beginners 2. the unwary 3. the unskilled. :D
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    Yes or No:"Fully hedged portfolios are not risk free"?

    I don't understand this: "I am now fully hedged" http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78305
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