Position Sizing

tradetony> Hello, Goldtrade,__Thank you for taking the time to go over position sizing.
Aloha, itÕs nice to hear from you again. I use a lot of charts in my emails. Can you read charts ok?
TradeTony> Joe mentions that he will exit 1/3 of his position shortly after entry to recoup costs and a small profit. Do you think this is the best strategy.
Ok let me get this right, you are asking me if it is OK to Kill your winners.

My guess is that Joe has a lot of students who will not stick around unless they get some winners, right away. Even if they miss the big ones that may retire them for life. A strategy like that is great for brokers, but I donÕt see how going against the basic rules can have any long-term positive benefits.
TradeTony> You would have your largest risk in the first couple of days.
Especially if you start with 3 times your normal position.
TradeTony> I have read of people scaling in and out which seems to be in conflict to Joes full on then scale out._
Livermore ÒDonÕt put all of your position on at one place.Ó I think he got out all at once just the opposite of Joe.
TradeTony> I have been getting JerryÕs spreads for about a year.
Yes I use WSC. What kind of results have you been getting. What do you like to trade?
TradeTony> I find them worthwhile and a good deal. Do you get just JerryÕs spreads or do you get the whole seasonal and spreads package?
JerryÕs letter stands alone. I use Barchart for technicians.
TradeTony> _I have researched position sizing and have not come away with any concrete system for amount to bet so I thought I would try to keep risk at 5% to start, until I get some performance numbers to use for optimization.
Do you mean you do not unleash the power of 95% of your trading capital?

Just keep about a thousand per spread and go for it as the market allows. Increase in the direction of trend. Increase winners, decrease losers.
TradeTony> I will also use a time stop like Andy did in his journal. Three days should be enough.
If you have been following JerryÕs WSC for a year you must know by now that an initial spread trade six to eight weeks. Pyramids to that trade are of course shorter. Nothing less than two weeks. Three days, any three days except the last three days mean nothing at all.. Andy churns!

The force behind seasonalÕs is climate. Got that climate, not weather. How can you tell ÒWeather,Ó that it must behave in a three-day period? If you cannot make weather do it, how can you expect to foretell a twenty-year pattern in climate on one weeks price action in a simple derivative?

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TradeTony> If its not going your way by then it probably will not work out. _
Show me the charts!!

What a bunch of baloney. Many spreads have late bottoms, 3 days , 3 weeks. So whatÕ get in, pyramid'em.

Sure many of the good ones may bottom early, so you never have a down day when you get in late. But hay that should have been the first pyramid. The initial position should have kicked in closer to the bottom.
TradeTony> If you don't mind me asking how do you keep all of your spread trading info organized?
Really the simplest way is to use JerryÕs ÒDaily spread report (DSR). As long as you know youÕre bias, the difference between where he got in and your average Ògetting in,Ó price. With just a look you can see winners and losers. Add to strength (new highs), sell weakness (parabolic etc.)

I use Word in Office to write letters like this, then cut and paste into emails of boards. Word has the tools for trendlines. I am now on a Mac so I use SnapnDrag to shoot charts and make pdfÕs for emailing traders.
TradeTony> IÕm hoping that this will give me the tools for organization I need to trade without mess._
Believe me, JerryÕs DSR is the core of simplicity. He has already done it all for you. Send me your spread questions as they occur, donÕt wait and forget them.
 
Is it a joke? Not funny ...
Aloha Cnms2,
Welcome to the discussion. Hay C2 you can search on my posts. You will see I am consistent. I trade Spreads.

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What can I explain to you about my post or just spread trading in general. If my posts contained as little content as the one you posted here I would have a million by now. Search on thread starter, descending from the beginning for content.
 
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