I buy on weakness and sell on strength. I sell short on strength and buy to cover on weakness.
This is swing trading, not trend following. There are a lot of good books on swing trading on Amazon.
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- Mon May 27, 2013 9:26 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: What to do if you are fund manager?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19417
- Mon May 27, 2013 2:44 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: What to do if you are fund manager?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19417
I trade individual stocks so I get to choose from a universe of nearly 8,000 stocks. Although the broader indices are in a strong bull market, there are still individual stocks that are going sideways or trending downward. But your market scans should uncover candidates that are trending upwards yet...
- Mon May 27, 2013 9:13 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: What to do if you are fund manager?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19417
I swing trade so I don't buy anything making a new high, instead I go long on instruments that are oversold. I exit the position after the swing when the price moves into overbought territory. My portfolio has 10 slots, each position uses 10% of total equity. If a position should go to zero then I l...
- Mon May 27, 2013 8:40 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: What to do if you are fund manager?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19417
- Mon May 27, 2013 8:18 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: What to do if you are fund manager?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19417
- Sun May 26, 2013 7:49 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: What to do if you are fund manager?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19417
- Sun May 26, 2013 7:42 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: What to do if you are fund manager?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19417
- Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:59 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Shutting down our small fund
- Replies: 43
- Views: 45839
In May 2012 I suspended trading my long-only LTTF stock system. While I do not have any money currently riding on it, I do monitor its theoretical performance. Perhaps one day I will reactivate it. Since that time I purchased several end-of-day swing trading systems for stocks. I am happy with its p...
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:11 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: What happen on Stock market, if U.S. Gov purchase bond back?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9964
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:26 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: What happen on Stock market, if U.S. Gov purchase bond back?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9964
- Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:10 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Strong May Results for Mechanical/Trend Following Systems
- Replies: 59
- Views: 40819
- Sun May 27, 2012 9:26 am
- Forum: Testing Software
- Topic: Hard Disk Backups
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8343
- Fri May 25, 2012 9:58 am
- Forum: Market Psychology
- Topic: Facebook IPO, I just don't "get it"
- Replies: 53
- Views: 62880
- Wed May 23, 2012 6:08 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: JPM/Commodity Sell Off
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2649
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:53 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Triple moving average...
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19289
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:55 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Triple moving average...
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19289
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:31 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Triple moving average...
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19289
Also consider that no one system performs well in all market types (ie bull/bear, volatile/quiet). For example, I know that my long-only stock system that uses 3MA LTTF works best during low volatility bull runs. It is performing exceptionally well since about December. I know that the good times wi...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:41 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Suspicious data
- Replies: 51
- Views: 51619
After not receiving any replies to my post I decided to take matters into my own hands. I deleted my Broker Positions for UNG then called test.UpdateOtherExpenses() with the gain from that position on the date that it was closed. I know that my action skews my stats (among other things UNG is no lon...
- Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:33 am
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Suspicious data
- Replies: 51
- Views: 51619
CSI data, UNG (Nat Gas ETF) looks suspicious after 4-for-1 Reverse Stock Split on February 21st. I held a short position for several weeks beginning January at $6 and change per share. I exited the position well before February 21st. After last night's CSI price update my equity curve got seriously ...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:35 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: How to start trading with only $10,000?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16858