How many contracts to trade?

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Has Kelly ever published his results?

Or is he just another theory guy, that some traders worship?

All it is a way to avoid risk of ruin while maximizing your returns. Im not sure what you mean by publishing his results? Results from what?

He's praised by everyone from gamblers to traders for good reason. Thorp used it. That should say a lot.
 
OK. Assuming you pass any of these combines, tryouts, etc. - how many contracts would you trade as a max position size? Would you go with whatever the firm gives you? I mean - 15 lots in ES or GC or CL with a max drawdown of $4,500 - is that not completely insane? In other words - can you be a professional trader starting out with a $4,500 drawdown limit?

Suggest max trading size to be where money pressure is low enough so that you don't make poor decisions.

(Going "balls out" with the "max leverage you can get" is rarely a good strategy.)
 
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try this say your limit is 15, start with 1 to get in the market and then your mind will have better clarity of what's going on as the market moves against your conviction add on (for example) 2, a few tick's away from your original entry and then set 4 out even further and then 8 further out with your mouse on the reverse hotkey just in case. :D
 
Kelly - it is b**hit - what if it says 25% of the account cause this is the case?
 
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