OK, that's a monthly chart of S&P. What do "price action and volume" tell you as to next month's move? S&P up or down?
OK, that's a monthly chart of S&P. What do "price action and volume" tell you as to next month's move? S&P up or down?
Price action and volume.
oh my! Have you ever actually traded with real money? Price action and volume?
Leveraged position sizing can get 100%+ returns but give 50%+ drawdowns as well.
The only other variable i can think of is high frequency, but that is not viable for retail traders due to commissions that will start adding up if you do 1000s of trades a year.
Well yeah if you're a perfect trader taking perfect trades disrupted by all manner of random left-field moves than everything is great, but in reality there's this thing called volatility drag and it's a real issue.
"making large gains goes hand in hand with taking huge risks and blowing up." please can people stop pulling "facts" out of their behinds.. one trader might spend 2-3 months developing a strategy with 1.3 profit factor, one might find 1.9 profit factor.. one might find the best one with 1.5 profit factor but which gave 3-4 trades per day..Sure, its good to be optimistic but one thing nearly every long term successful trader has is a realistic view of expectancy. Shooting stars are all to common to new traders- the problem is keeping it, making large gains goes hand in hand with taking huge risks and blowing up. Having a sustainable long term ROR over 20% is exceptional no matter what the account size is. Its fun to dream you will be one of those rare birds that bucks the odds and becomes one of the best traders of all times - but even than most of them blew up a few times before adding in a sound risk management system so as to go the distance. Think big, but keep the feet on the ground and do track your performance to avoid selective memory, which is recalling only the winning periods and overlooking the loses.
The more gains you want, the harder and more work you have to put in.. it has nothing to do with more % risk..