If you have just open a $2000 account,what would you do?

[Pkay]

get into crypto. thats the only market that doesnt have fixed costs as entry barrier. it moves and liquidity + leverage is high enough for a punter like you. the most expensive thing you will need to have is a 30$/m tradingview subscription

Thanks, any reason why you go with Trading View?

 

[Pkay]

I would
• trade shares of the SPY and "a certain subset" of leveraged/volatility ETFs,
• via a trend-exploiting Rules-Based Trading regime, restricted to EOD-data --
• with long + short positions in both, with
• average hold in the SPY of ~5 days, and
• average hold in the lev'd/vol ETFs of ~2 days.

As the equity grew, I would add vertical S&P spreads, top and bottom, 2-4 weeks out, with an intended 5-day/50% hold. (And a 1.9x stop loss.) But that'll be a while.

Thanks. Is there any reason why you'd focus on ETFs rather than individual shares? Won't you get bigger moves by buying individual shares?

 

[Amahrix]

I would save another $2,000 as fast as possible and invest in indexes. Maybe start with SPY and AGG 60/40.

Do that as many times as possible for like 30 years and retire.

Hedge tails tho.

 

[tommcginnis]

Thanks. Is there any reason why you'd focus on ETFs rather than individual shares? Won't you get bigger moves by buying individual shares?

Less business risk, somewhat more market risk -- the effect of individual stocks is less (as you've noted), which means that there is less requirement to know myriad individual details. Yet, you can still have them grouped with a reasoned eye towards purpose. (Whether inverted, 2x or 3x or whatever...) Saves not only a boatload of time, but also worry.

 

[MrMuppet]

Thanks, any reason why you go with Trading View?

Find a better analytics platform for crypto

 

[trade_canada]

I would trade Eurodollar calendar spreads with a holding time of a few days to a few weeks. Low variance price action and low margin requirements enable you to take some heat and work your position without getting your face ripped off in most cases.

 

[tomas262]

with passive income and free time you can trade MNQ. try to make avg 2 bucks per trade per contract net (10 bucks risk 20 bucks profit), make 10 - 30 trades a day with up to 3 contracts. when capital grows to at least 6k or more switch to NQ 1 contract, add lowest margin futures spreads to diversify and better use of free capital ... this requires having an edge obviously

 

[Overnight]

with passive income and free time you can trade MNQ. try to make avg 2 bucks per trade per contract net (10 bucks risk 20 bucks profit), make 10 - 30 trades a day with up to 3 contracts. when capital grows to at least 6k or more switch to NQ 1 contract, add lowest margin futures spreads to diversify and better use of free capital ... this requires having an edge obviously

What advice would you have given before May 5th, 2019?

 

[MrMuppet]

I would trade Eurodollar calendar spreads with a holding time of a few days to a few weeks. Low variance price action and low margin requirements enable you to take some heat and work your position without getting your face ripped off in most cases.

Nice idea, but you learn nothing from it. I traded STIRS for years and back in the day it was an execution game intraday.

Nowadays, swing trading STIRS is just like watching pain dry

 

[shatteredx]

take $2000 margin and buy $4000 SOXL