Traders' Roundtable

I've studied and rejected the idea. I trade "thin" futures markets like Muni Bond and the FINEX cross-rate futures and Lumber and the Russell. (So I'm not competing against the John Henrys and the Bill Dunns of the multi billion dollar CTA world.) Options are either nonexistant or the bid-ask ...

Do any of you mechanical (or non-mechanical for that matter) trend followers ever hedge your trade risk with net credit spreads?

It would seem a logical thing to do in terms of "smoothing out the equity curve" while maintaining open ended upside potential.

For example, if you got a signal to go ...

The sooner a trader becomes secure in his method of trading the sooner he can get on with the important business of using the results to build his business.



Absolutely. After running the gamut of strategies, I have found only *one* way to trade for me personally - the way that fits my ...

This style of trading is probably not unique to me, as many floor traders do the same thing, albeit on a much shorter time frame. But you do have to have a durable shorter term trading methodology which really works in the real world.

Leonardo--

Feel free to ignore if this question is too ...

Therefore, basing any trading decision on the distinction between open and closed equity, and/or the historical price at which a position was entered, is illogical.

I would be interested if anyone can find a flaw in my argument.


Perhaps the difference is based on psychology and performance ...