Stuck in a Rut?: Eyes of the Pristine Trader
- Author Jared Wesley
- Published November 15, 2011
- Word count 430
Are you one of the many swing traders that takes the same level of risk notwithstanding the market conditions? Do you always trade "a thousand" shares just because that's an easy number to remember? I will discuss some finer points that might help you to become better at managing risk.
First and foremost, the Pristine Trained Trader (PTT) should have a Trading Plan outlining his money management rules. Here you should establish parameters such as a "maximum loss per week-month". When establishing a maximum loss per trade (because no one can know which trade is going to work out), the PTT has to decide whether he wants to follow a more "static" approach where all his potential losses will be similar, or whether to adopt a more "dynamic" set of guidelines created with the purpose of governing when to be more aggressive, less aggressive, or not active at all.
First and foremost, you have to understand the fact that not all market conditions present the same odds for a particular trade. Let's say for example that market "x" is in an up-trend, and has pulled back to support for several days. Today we get a reversal bar, and tomorrow the reversal is complete. Thus, the swing trader will likely find several high odds entries both today and tomorrow (depending on the tactics used, many of which are taught in our Trading The Pristine Method seminars. Then the third day comes along, the market continues to climb, and some more entries might be executed. As the market continues to rally, the odds of every new entry will diminish, as the probability of a reversal to the downside in market "x" is greater.
Based on this scenario, a swing trader might enter into larger positions on days one and two, and might reduce his share lots as the market continues to climb. There will be a time when the market has climbed for 5 or 6 days in a row, and so the Pristine Swing Trader will devote more and more of his time to manage already open positions, by selling partial lots and raising his stops, instead of being too active in entering new swing positions. (He might be more active in micro trading activities though)
Using some modified version of this basic concept, the Pristine Swing Trader can implement an intelligent way to participate in the markets, while reducing the risks of getting caught with big positions on a reversal contrary to his positions.
Jared Wesley
Contributing Editor
Interactive Trading Room Moderator
Gap, Intra-Day and Swing Trading Specialist
Instructor and Traders Coach
Jared Wesley is a moderator in the Pristine Method Trading Room (PMTR) and a Pristine Trader Coach. After graduating from Boston College in 2000 with a BS in History, he spent 5 years living in Tokyo, Japan. Despite actively trading the markets since 1998, it wasn’t until his return from Japan that Jared was introduced to Pristine. Along with mentorships from two long time Pristine Educators,
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