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- Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:24 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Newbie asks: How to trade futures with only $100K?
- Replies: 48
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Fab1, Parameters I have been experimenting/leaning towards are 0.5-1% risk per trade and about 20-30% heat in the portfolio. Just as background: I too am new to futures trading and systematic trading, and have never traded futures live myself. About 2 years ago I bought TB...spent 3-4 months intense...
- Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:43 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Newbie asks: How to trade futures with only $100K?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 27495
Thanks for the suggestions Fab1. Ideally I was hoping to be able to trading about 80-100 futures markets and have been assembling a portfolio to do so...but my capital ($200K) is likely too low and risky for this size basket. I guess I should continue my testing on various size portfolios and see wh...
- Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:10 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Newbie asks: How to trade futures with only $100K?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 27495
I have been thinking about the same issue in my testing...that is...am I at a disadvantage trying to test and potentially trade a $200K starting account with all full-size contracts ? So I like and will investigate adding minis where possible and then full-size contracts where no minis are available...