Traders' Roundtable

... when markets are extra sensitive to seemingly meaningless news ...

What do people usually do most?

Enter positions ? or Exit positions ?
Does anyone have any suggestions based on your experience?

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When markets are extra sensitive, in general, will market tend to go UP or DOWN based on your experience?

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Toosday wrote: ... when markets are extra sensitive to seemingly meaningless news ...

Can I say that this situation will be reflected on VIX? which will be higher, when markets are extra sensitive.

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When people get stress on market, and cannot make any complicated decision, will VIX reflect this situation? and how does market move responing to this behaviors? going UP or DOWN?

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I just make up the profit number, my intention is to know how to determine which plan is better for learning purpose.

Do you have any suggestions?
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I don't see any measure of risk (i.e. drawdown,stddev or whatever) in your two performance tables so should we assume you are not interested in risk adjusted performance? . . . :? Let assume the risk for both systems are same, do you have any suggestions on which one is better? Thanks you very much...

There are two performance for an assumed trading plans, and
Does anyone have any suggestions which plan will be better in term of their performance?
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If your trading plan already provide entry and exit signals, all you need to do is to follow it, do you still need to work on forecast? even through you know market is going to up / down in next week based on your forecast, but you still need to follow your trading plan no matter what happen in any ...

Why don't you see if you can find the original Turtle Trading rules online? There is a very good explanation of how to size positions with futures. Another option would be Way of the Turtle which also has those same rules in it. Do you know the link for your reference? Thanks everyone very much for...

... If you want to use the notional value (eg currently $88,000 on one contract of Crude) fine. But you still need the point value to get there in the first place. 1% of 88000 = 880 points, I will use the entry leve of price as a reference to determine the number of points for stop loss. Do you hav...

... If you wish to risk 1% of your account value per position the entry risk multiplied by the point value must not exceed said 1%. ... Would it be possible to convert following formula using percentage instead of point value? Capital : 100000 Stop Loss: 1% Do you have any suggestions on how to det...

Future has a leverage at 10 times, which means that you invest $1 and trades like $10 [Corrected]. I would like to know how to apply One Percent Risk in this case. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions The one percent risk rule is calculated as follows: •Maximum C...

Referring to following linked images, does anyone have any suggestions on what
the order of importance is for resistance levels?
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If it works on market, it will only show a potential trend to target price before expired date, but it does not show when market moves based on this data, do you have any suggestions on how market behaviors based on this theory?
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Referring to following article, I would like to know on what it means. Does it mean which price causes the most pain, the price will get there at the Options expired date? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions --------------------------------------------------------...

Referring to following image, there is only one big going up bar.
Does anyone have any suggestions on whether the current trend is up or down?
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Not sure I understand your question. Do you mean what do you think what will happen when U.S. government pays down part of it´s debt? (Purchase back the bonds it previously issued) Yes, U.S. Gov purchase back the bond it previously issued. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks everyone very muc...

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Any help will be greatly appreciated :>

rhc wrote:From a volume traded point of view, It would appear that more oil traders "monitor" Light Sweet Crude and fewer oil traders "monitor" Brent Crude
(see pic below)

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Google can sometimes be very good for these types of questions. http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=What+is+the+difference+between+light+sweet+crude+oil+and+Brent+Crude+oil (Yields 36,300 results !!) I read some articles, but still don't know which product most traders monitor durin...