trading futures

[Mdtbyk]

Turning an outright flat price loser into a "hedged position" never works out from my experience. In fact, it usually makes things much worse - plus, you'll not only have to margin the original stinker, you'll have to margin the "hedge".

i don't run them against each other i take profits along the way if there is and if the market goes against me 3-4% thats a 2% of my portfolio which i can handle so there is some room to play with 3-4% correction no?

 

[bone]

i don't run them against each other i take profits along the way if there is and if the market goes against me 3-4% thats a 2% of my portfolio which i can handle so there is some room to play with 3-4% correction no?

Just my own 2 cents - your methodology is piss poor position management and misguided. YMMV

 

[SunTrader]

For some of you the topic is - trading f u t u r e s!!!!

And BTW hedging is not limited to options (or forex) only.

But I do agree OP is in over his head.

 

[bone]

Well, in my mind this isn't "hedging" - it's misguided position management for a flat price instrument trade gone bad.

Proper and correct Speculative hedged positions (like futures and options and equity and physical cash market spreads and all permutations thereof) are modeled and constructed from the outset to take advantage of the convergence or divergence between two or more highly correlated and volatility-adjusted instruments. These legs of these trades are entered and exited simultaneously.
Simultaneous being the operative word.

This has no semblance to the OP's suggestion.