Traders' Roundtable

You should only use options for special situations. Trading options to get your exposure routinely is, well I just say that I yet to meet a rich option trader. Well, there is a difficult money management issues, which involve leverage that I face with, and try to solve this one. Does anyone have an...

The way I would approach it is to take the option premium and make that your "1R" risk. As to adding to positions, time decay makes it problematic. However, you could try adding a position to the next expiration month. So, if you bought 10 NOV calls and your system tells you to add anothe...

If I trade stocks, there is no leverage, so whenever I have profit, I can add position under certain conditions. On the other hands, if I trade option, there is leverage, such as 20 times leverage, so whenever I have profit, I get no idea on how to add position, because it has leverage and more diff...

On fig 1, up trend is established, way to go ... On fig 2, market starts to go down on the next day, do we still consider up trend at this moment? On fig 3, market keeps dropping on the next day, do we still consider up trend at this moment? On fig 4, market break below previous peak, on the next da...

Thank you very much for your suggestions on the lists for position execution.

What about any DON'T DO lists for Trader Psychology and Money Management?


Does anyone have more suggestions?
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Does anyone have any suggestions on any DON"T DO lists for trader?
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Does anyone have any suggestions whether GDP QoQ is commonly used or GDP YoY is commonly used for analysing Economic?
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Based on the formula on image, I would like to know the formula to calculate 3 items. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions Please see following image on formula for calculating 2 items. http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i438/junk000/Correlation.jpg w = ratio p = ...

OK, I'll bite. May I assume that inflation is measured consistently for each country (i.e. headline vs core)? Answer: Country B in both cases. CASE 1: Not a good idea to raise interest rates with weak GDP growth. CASE 2: Inflation rate of 2% is rather sweet; why mess with it? For CASE 1, is there a...

[CASE 1] Country A: GDP growth: 2% Inflation rate: 5% Country B: GDP growth: 8% Inflation rate: 5% A or B? [CASE 2] Country A: GDP growth: 5% Inflation rate: 2% Country B: GDP growth: 5% Inflation rate: 8% A or B? Does anyone have any suggestions on which country has higher potential to raise intere...

If you can identify when a market is trending and not ranging why would you want to take profits in a trending market? Why not just follow the trend with some form of trailing stop? The exception to this general approach might be if you can identify in advance when a trend will end, and if you can ...

Before considering a "take profits" approach it is necessary to try to determine what type of market you are in. If the market is trending, an arbitrary "take profit" level will undoubtedly leave money on the table by getting out too soon. On the other hand, if the market is ran...

... If you are comfortable giving back open profits and don't care that much of higher drawdowns then let it just run all the way and trail a wider stop. .. Laurens I care about higher drawdowns taking back all my profit and only feel comfortable giving back 20% of open profits, does it make any se...

For following the trend, Nobody know when to sell at the top until market turns down first. Some people will sell 50% first without confirming whether the trend keeps going or not. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to manage the profit? in order to ensure to make a nice turn at the top. Thanks...

Do you have any suggestions on which web site contains most of the Economic data?
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Could anyone please give me any suggestions what Economic data will be considered during trading Forex?
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[quote="Moto moto"] The old VWAP (volume weighted average price) possibly being one of the simplest earliest type for stocks. This is all particular relevant only with large orders and as discussed in other threads this is what the myriad of PHds seem/appear to do at many places, work out ...

Does anyone have any suggestions on how Fund Manager places order on market? For example: 1) When trader receives order from Fund Manager to purchase ?? stock today, will trader purchase at market open in the morning and afternoon? assume there is a lunch time break. 2) When trader receives order fr...

As we know, if we loss 20% of capital, it required 25% gained to recover the loss, does anyone have any suggestions on how to determine the optimial risk levels for portifolio? which level is more sustainable for mid term investment. Thanks in advance for any suggestions Risk | Gain for Recovered Lo...

Both CHF and EUR are currently correlated with Gold as an "anti-dollar" trade, although, paradoxically, EUR is a proxy for risk-taking and CHF is a proxy for safety. This relationship implies that EUR may decouple from gold as the macro concerns around Ireland, Spain, Greece, etc., put pr...