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... 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
Tem...
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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 ... quick-fix
systems and approaches as a means to easy profits are a
dishonor to the real- life challenges of trading.
Second, I want to communicate to nontraders and
t...
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... 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 trade may be a loser.
Obviously, ... 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)....
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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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... the
determination of the risks and leverage taken on any trade
or combination of trades, trade order management deals
with the actual physical process of entering and exiting
trades.
My job as a trader is really ... me as a trader. And this is a battle that never ends.
Existing Open Positions
Among all aspects of my trading, this is the one area that
causes me the most...
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... Dan alerts me
to hikkake patterns in markets he knows I am trading. I
have no interest in a hikkake in any market I am not trading
or looking to trade.
The hikkake is a failed inside-bar pattern. ... slightly
different bids and offers
Standardized, a
single market
Size of
trading units
Flexible Standardized
Volume,
liquidity,
hours of
trading
Advantage spot
Regulatory
overs...
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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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...
The Australian dollar/Canadian dollar (AUD/CAD) is a
textbook example of the comedy of errors that can occur
when a symmetrical triangle works its way too far toward
the apex. Because prices had ... 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 needs a
co...
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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 asset...
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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...