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There are a couple of reasons why stock trading is hard. First, most people zoom in way too much. They're looking at five-minute or at one-day charts; and watch social media when Bitcoin jumps six or 7% in a day up. It's like, “oh, it's over, quick, buy before you...
There's a slight distinction between switching off and going to cash. All of the systems should eventually go to cash if the market conditions are not suitable, just part of they don't have any more buy signals, and all of the open trades close out. So, you're in...
As you grow, there are always holes in your portfolio you can plug. There is market behaviors and scenarios that you could dream up that your portfolio may not do brilliantly well in. Thus, you could create a system to address that. There's always the benefit of...
The purpose is to make sure that the system is yours, that you understand the rules, and you know why the parameter values are chosen where they are. You've satisfied yourself that that's okay. You like the performance, all of these things. It's sort of the handoff...
Adding a system becomes too much depends on you, your routine, capacity, and various other things. For adding a new system, you must execute your current system smoothly, mistake-free, with confidence, and without stress. If you're feeling stressed and anxious about...
To pull the trigger and take your new system, certain things have to be in place. First is understanding the rules of my system completely, to be consistent with the paper trading process to know I'm doing the right thing every day, not fumbling, and not making...
How do you know if your trading system rules still work? Should I continue to use my trading system? Or should I change, refine, re-optimize or just throw it away altogether? The answer is through understanding the performance statistics that the system is generating....
It absolutely doesn't matter. In fact, it's one of the less important statistics to make trading profitable. This is contrary to what you think because you need to be accurate and right to make money. That's what school teaches us to do. For example, my trades are 50%...
If you've got different trading systems in a portfolio and some of them are making and losing money at the same time, which one do you use? The answer lies in the fact that you don't know which one will make money tomorrow. If you've got a trading system in your...
If you've been trading before with different methods, how can you take that and design a trading system out of it so that you can become more consistent? I've done this quite a few times. The trick is to look at how you've made your trading decisions and isolate the...
Yes, it's possible, but you need to test it, see how well it performs, and check if you're comfortable with that stock market system. Different stock markets have different personalities and move differently. The reason they do that is that there are different types...
If I have a long system, can I flip it and make it a short system, and will that be profitable? There's a bit of a problem with that. For example, if we get a short signal and there's a trend down and a trend up, the best possible outcome we can get is low. The best...