Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader: Lessons from 21 Weeks of Real Trading 6 doc

... because both offer a real look at the real lives of smart traders. I accepted this book challenge because John Wiley & Sons and I shared a vision for a book that would be a diary of my real- time ... Managed Account Research Inc. web site. Part II: Characteristics of a Successful Trading Plan Chapter 2: Building a Trading Plan Trader Personality and Temp...

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... points that I want you to remember as you read Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader are: 1. Consistently profitable commodity trading is not about discovering some magic way to find profitable ... profitability that trading requires a comprehensive approach addressing far, far more than simply having a belief that a certain market is going to advance or decline. T...

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... technical approach used by the Factor Trading Plan falls into a category known as discretionary (as opposed to the mechanical approach used by many technical traders). A discretionary trading plan ... are dictated primarily by how risk is managed. Many novice commodity traders assume each trade will be a winner. Professional traders manage their trading to assume that each tra...

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... professional trading career was dedicated to advancing a more conservative approach to futures trading. Donchian passed away in the early 1990s. The Weekend Rule basically states that a market that decisively ... graph of the Australian dollar/Japanese yen (AUD/JPY). Again note the retest that occurred two weeks after the initial pattern completion. As is almost always the case...

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... breakout day is sacred and that the high of a downside breakout day or the low of an upside breakout day will be the demarcation point between the trading range of the pattern and the start of a ... was not until the trades #5 and #6 that the market was really breaking out of a major pattern. Trade #5 was really the only trade worthy of the Best Dressed List. Exiting a...

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... an immediate profit. From time to time over the years, I have toyed with the idea of grabbing a quick $500 to $1,000 per contract profit and walking away from trades. The analysis of my trading ... interest in a hikkake in any market I am not trading or looking to trade. The hikkake is a failed inside-bar pattern. The inside bar is a candlestick formation that occurs w...

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... never look back. March Corn: A Classic Breakaway Gap Signal Type: Major Breakout Signal The vast majority of price gaps are pattern gaps—gaps that occur within a trading range that are covered ... through a series of trading signals. The gold market from January through early April was a great example of a concept I call market redefinition a process where one p...

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... in this chapter to provide a context for repeated attempts to exploit a chart development. The Australian dollar/Canadian dollar (AUD/CAD) is a textbook example of the comedy of errors that can occur when ... percent. One trade (USD/CAD) remained open. None of the closed liners my trading is reduced to just trades that wash each other out. Each month, the Factor Trading Plan...

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... the Daily Copper Graph. The Goal of the Markets Is to Separate You from Your Money! A trader much wiser and more profitable than I once said that the real purpose of capital and speculative ... The benchmarks are the Lyxor CTA Index, the Barclay Hedge NewEdge CTA Index, and the S&P 500. Lyxor and Barclay track the commodity trading advisors (CTAs) managing large assets...

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... performance evaluation at profit risk management Factor LLC: first big trade proprietary trading record Factor Trading Plan. See also Case studies assumptions of basics of best trading ... personality and temperament and risk management and success and analysis of Trading platforms Trading signals: criterion for valid successful trading and Tra...

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