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- bidforvol replied Jan 16, 2015
Indeed. And not just forex trading. This could happen in any financial market. With the amount of leverage you can use in forex, it's a lot like the experience in futures trading. And in futures you can have limit up or limit down situations where ...
- bidforvol replied Jan 16, 2015
With a shock like this, however rare, can make you really take a look at the amount of leverage you put on. Stop losses may not even execute anywhere near where you think it should with moves like this. I took the exercise to take a look to see if I ...
- bidforvol replied Oct 19, 2014
Thanks Fartist. A lot of the time I'm manually setting stop losses loosely based around short-term support and resistance. I pointed out that having a trailing ATR stop on a position in US Treasuries would have been prudent since it would have ...
- bidforvol replied Oct 17, 2014
Looked over a short-term trend-following strategy the past month and a half and it was a really great month in September for trend-following in general, which was really all about the USD. I'm attaching a chart of the strategy's performance along ...
- bidforvol replied Oct 15, 2014
Jesus, Graviton, at 3-5% a week, if you just take your 1% and let the rest build up your equity, in a short 5 years you will have tens of millions of dollars... or more ($280M!), depending on what you're putting to work right now.. hell in 2 short ...
- bidforvol replied Oct 15, 2014
Was anyone long US Treasury CFDs 10 or 30-year going into today? HOLY COW! The ATR-based trailing stop would have been a very prudent exit methodology!!!
- bidforvol replied Sep 25, 2014
Looks good. If wary of adding to your long USD exposure, you can still play this with GBP/NZD!
- bidforvol replied Sep 24, 2014
Haven't really closed anything this week. Well, OK got stopped out of 2 positions for quick small losses. But my book is still spread out among 16 positions and basically just long USD and short commodities. 6 currency pairs. When this trend hits a ...
- bidforvol replied Sep 22, 2014
Do you re-enter positions that are still in a trend on Sunday nights and no big-gap has occurred?
- bidforvol replied Sep 19, 2014
Cheers to your success, Graviton. Given your experience, and assuming you were trend-following since before and through the 2007-8 financial crisis, I'm interested to know your thoughts on trend-following over your decade of trading currencies. A ...
- bidforvol replied Sep 18, 2014
Yes I'm still here!
- bidforvol replied Sep 17, 2014
Hi Gonzalon. Congrats to your progress. May I suggest that you continue trading on the demo for at least several more months. Use the several months (6 or more) to work out your strategy. You will change things around a lot in the beginning. Once ...
- bidforvol replied Sep 17, 2014
That's what I thought... as I'm human too, I actually like taking off the newer ones, but that's because I have a "core" position and then trade around it sometimes. As for the Fed and Scotland, i don't know what to do... close everything? I can't ...
- bidforvol replied Sep 17, 2014
Why should it really matter which lot you take off first? The issue is just about "moving" P&L between unrealized and realized isn't it? Sorry, just trying to understand why this is a real issue.
- bidforvol replied Sep 17, 2014
Isn't this just accounting? There's no bearing on your total P&L which lot you take off.. unless you got different sizes for each lot?
- bidforvol replied Sep 16, 2014
Typically using take-profits wouldn't be part of trend-following at its core, same for 1:1 r/r setups. A trend-follower wants to find trends and ride them for all they're worth as opposed to finding high probability trade setups in the direction of ...
- bidforvol replied Sep 16, 2014
Glad to know I have company. Yes, all part of the big USD theme going on right now. Already involved on the continuation of these downtrends. But only because I get involved on trade breakouts. Thank you for continuing to share your charts.
- bidforvol replied Sep 16, 2014
At this point, I feel like we're (those of us trend-following) are trading the big USD trend right now. Long USD, short commodities.... Least that's how I'm positioned. I'm not getting much diversification through products. My book is just one giant ...
- bidforvol replied Sep 8, 2014
You should hope rather than fear in that case: hope that the trend continues instead of fearing that it reverses. Give the trend enough room (within your risk appetite) to take part in the trend. With trend-following you will always give up the ...
- bidforvol replied Sep 2, 2014
How about Average True Range.