I agree with NicoF1. Exactly what I was talking about 😄
Accept the loss as experience
Oct 29 2017 at 13:59
I, personally, don't keep more than 3-4 positions open at a time, regardless of lot size. I start having a hard time following them all if I have more.
The answer is simple.If you are trading manually and you are 100% sure about the profitability of your system and there is a trade set up in each currency pair and you have a money management plan intact along with your trading system, then such a question doesn't arise. You have to enter every trade which meets the trade entry condition.
But again if you follow a thumb rule not to enter more than one trade at a time, then that depends on your past experience and backtesting which should tell you which trade to enter with maximum probability of success.
But again if you follow a thumb rule not to enter more than one trade at a time, then that depends on your past experience and backtesting which should tell you which trade to enter with maximum probability of success.
Artificial General Intelligence
NicoF1 posted:
If there at many opportunities, I take them all and then reduce my Lot size for each trade
But where to set the limit? For me it does not seem rational to reduce down to minimal numbers. There has to be some max number depending on the size of the lot. Or what you think?
Oct 30 2017 at 07:59
Mike76 posted:NicoF1 posted:
If there at many opportunities, I take them all and then reduce my Lot size for each trade
But where to set the limit? For me it does not seem rational to reduce down to minimal numbers. There has to be some max number depending on the size of the lot. Or what you think?
This has to be defined in trading plan!
togr posted:Mike76 posted:NicoF1 posted:
If there at many opportunities, I take them all and then reduce my Lot size for each trade
But where to set the limit? For me it does not seem rational to reduce down to minimal numbers. There has to be some max number depending on the size of the lot. Or what you think?
This has to be defined in trading plan!
Sounds logical
Nov 02 2017 at 15:58
Mike76 posted:togr posted:Mike76 posted:NicoF1 posted:
If there at many opportunities, I take them all and then reduce my Lot size for each trade
But where to set the limit? For me it does not seem rational to reduce down to minimal numbers. There has to be some max number depending on the size of the lot. Or what you think?
This has to be defined in trading plan!
Sounds logical
There is no other way.
You cant just open trade based on your feelings. You need to execute your trading plan precisely to get consistent results.
Otherwise you wont succeed long term.
I have also read that the best traders focus a lot of their time to trading psychology. For not to make decisions by their feelings.
Dec 14 2017 at 08:30
mcsuperb posted:
Hi Trader,
Just wondering how you decide which trade to enter when there are several opportunities?
Do you check the correlation and pick the one with the strongest trend?
Do you use correlation at all to make sure not to trade two highly correlated pairs at the same time?
If we are not so experts we can try the ADX since it is just one of those instruments that help us to filter the operations and to discard the ones that have the greatest risk. the ADX index goes down and then falls below the value 30. Therefore, there are no more trends, or at least we must realize that the trend no longer has such strength as to enter with a trade, if we are using a trend following technique. It's a matter of continuing to study and see what is best for us
Dec 14 2017 at 08:54
Adelgrepling posted:mcsuperb posted:
Hi Trader,
Just wondering how you decide which trade to enter when there are several opportunities?
Do you check the correlation and pick the one with the strongest trend?
Do you use correlation at all to make sure not to trade two highly correlated pairs at the same time?
If we are not so experts we can try the ADX since it is just one of those instruments that help us to filter the operations and to discard the ones that have the greatest risk. the ADX index goes down and then falls below the value 30. Therefore, there are no more trends, or at least we must realize that the trend no longer has such strength as to enter with a trade, if we are using a trend following technique. It's a matter of continuing to study and see what is best for us
It is not about technical setup of some indicator.
It is about following trading plan.
Trading plan could be based on various factors with or without technical indicators.
It needs to be defined if you open another trade or not once conditions are met.
