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Forum: Psychology and Money Management November 2nd, 2009, 03:30 PM
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Posted By sefstrat
This is probably not what you were referring to,...

This is probably not what you were referring to, but using a 10 tick stop is an error in my book. The probability of 10 tick adverse excursion which immediately reverses and moves in your favor is...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management November 1st, 2009, 06:51 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 11,426
Posted By sefstrat
NP.. Yea you have the idea right it sounds...

NP..

Yea you have the idea right it sounds like.. the primary diference is in the way I define risk versus the way most traders do. I define risk like an insurance company whereas most traders...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management October 11th, 2009, 11:31 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 11,426
Posted By sefstrat
Cross market or cointegration analysis is...

Cross market or cointegration analysis is definitely very useful, but it is not by any means a necessity in my experience.

I find that price, time and volatility are the most useful variables to...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management October 9th, 2009, 07:44 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 11,426
Posted By sefstrat
BTW in my previous post, I was not trying to...

BTW in my previous post, I was not trying to imply that standard MM techniques such as those espoused by Van Tharp and others are invalid or do not work, they are valuable techniques and they do...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management October 9th, 2009, 02:06 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 11,426
Posted By sefstrat
Here is a bit more detail on this concept as I...

Here is a bit more detail on this concept as I know many of you are still unclear on how it is possible that 'More contracts == Less risk', especially those who have read books by those such as Van...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management October 6th, 2009, 01:28 AM
Replies: 27
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Posted By sefstrat
You can backtest any type of MM strategy in ninja...

You can backtest any type of MM strategy in ninja if you use the custom IOrders interface for handling everything. I thought you could do it using the standard NT order management also but maybe...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management October 4th, 2009, 07:22 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 11,426
Posted By sefstrat
My MM library has various strategies built into...

My MM library has various strategies built into it, Kelly ratio, Fixed fraction, anti-martingale etc.. the one that I actually use is fixed fractional.

And yea, most trading books are rubbish IMO...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management October 4th, 2009, 11:53 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 11,426
Posted By sefstrat
Technically, trading more contracts does not...

Technically, trading more contracts does not lower the inherent risk, however it allows you to control your risk exposure and thus lower it by using good money management. With one contract you are...
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