There's your problem. You're trying to guess market sentiment. Find a way to determine market sentiment more accurately. Maybe that's using charts. Maybe that's counting the number of positive posts on a forum in 24 hours. Maybe it's counting the number of times the stock hits a new high. Something.
Is it possible to win in one trade? Or are we supposed to lose 9/10 times
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There's your problem. You're trying to guess market sentiment. Find a way to determine market sentiment more accurately. Maybe that's using charts. Maybe that's counting the number of positive posts on a forum in 24 hours. Maybe it's counting the number of times the stock hits a new high. Something.
Forget about those teach or suggest you on TA, chart, trade management, treat trading as business and etc BS that will bring you profit inlong term. There is zero edge in those approach
Just answer yourself a simple question, what is your risk /reward ratio and slippage + commussion in each trade? You can then easily calculate you win rate and how many trades you can possible make before you blow up your account.
I assume you are using bucket shop account (those spread betting and etc) which mean you are even accelerate your path to blow up your account.
PM if you can't figure this out.
Galvin, I tried PM'ing you. doesnt show an option.
Some people have just plain...bad luck in trading -- that's sadly the nature of the game, to some degree.
I don't like to think of it as 'winning' in trading, but rather just basically profitable or not; Trading is not a sport or competition against others...but rather against just yourself.
I'll admit trading is gambling to some extent, but not to the Extent that it should be referred to as a casino or "one big lottery".
You claim to trade "options, futures, forex, and stocks." and "I know all these instruments well" -- forgive my blunt language...but I say bs. No one can truly be an expert in all of those and trade them well as well.
KISS: keep it simple stupid. Pick one. Trade only one. and Study and study just one.
I don't like to give specific advice, but rather...a more philosophical approach or viewpoint. -- Try to see the overall, greater, big picture of things...doesn't matter if you're a day trader, or a longer term investor.
Sometimes, it's just a matter of Perspective...that can make a world of difference
You can have a 20% win rate or an 80% win rate, it depends on too many dynamics whether you are profitable or not. With 20% you have to hold on to your winners a lot longer to recover the losses, but not many are able to achieve that these days, too much volatility and too many whipsaws.
Using some streaming analysis and getting 95% now down to sub-minute charts, but that's not relevant here. The markets are not playing very nicely for most people at the moment, just make sure you preserve your capital and don't over trade, there's always another day. Also reduce your lot size down to minimum until you have a winner, and then build on that incrementally, the lower the timeframe the quicker the process.
Using some streaming analysis and getting 95% now down to sub-minute charts, but that's not relevant here. The markets are not playing very nicely for most people at the moment, just make sure you preserve your capital and don't over trade, there's always another day. Also reduce your lot size down to minimum until you have a winner, and then build on that incrementally, the lower the timeframe the quicker the process.
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Hello,
You can definetly win in trading, but it will take, time, trial and error, passion for trading, the will to achieve, understand probability, investing in your knowledge, seeking the right help from a professional trader, understanding how other make money trading, and lots of study time and practicing.
Learning to trade is free if you use sim. Read these forums and see who makes the most sense and follow that person.
I say stop wasting time trying to get an answer from any external source and figure it out on your own thru trial and error.
You can spend 30 years on these forums or elsewhere searching for answers and still be a bad trader. Most information is superficial.
It's like reading a self-help book. It's all garbage if you can't make it your own. Pretty soon you just forget everything you read!
You can spend 30 years on these forums or elsewhere searching for answers and still be a bad trader. Most information is superficial.
It's like reading a self-help book. It's all garbage if you can't make it your own. Pretty soon you just forget everything you read!
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What is streaming analysis?
You are not obligated to lose any trades. I have had streaks of 20 winning trades followed by only one or two losses. One point is that you are to be realistic and manage risk in your trading account so that if you do have losing trade(s) it will not wipe out your trading funds and you live to trade another day. Another key point is that trading experts with way more experience than myself teach that you can lose a quarter or half or so of your trades and still have a profitable trading account. I would say have a sound trading plan, stay optimistic by thinking win- win and stay realistic.