Robots or Humans in trading?

Nowadays, there is a huge trading volume that belongs to automated trading. Make no mistake, I'm not talking about $97 Forex Expert Advisors (EA). There is this blog I follow TopDogTrading that started a poll a few days ago.

Getting started with serious demo-trading

In the morning of October the 20th, two days ago, I officially started my serious attempt at trading income plays and keep a record in this blog.

The trade was a Bear Call Spread, and it was entered as follows:

Sell 12 SPY Nov 130 Call @0.65
Buy 12 SPY Nov 132 Call @0.35

I have lost my ass

Yup.....I lost it,....and I don't know where I put it.
Nah nah, just to start off with a small comic line after a while absent. I'm in a good mood today, probably because it was pay day at the office ;)

I haven't lost my ass, what I have lost is a lot of money in the few months I've been trading which makes me part of the 90% - 95% of traders who lose money.

GPS Forex robot team lies

This is a follow up on my previous article which you can find here.

On Monday May 9 there was a sell off in the EURUSD pair late in the day. Given that GPS only goes long EUR it had a hard time and lost its trade miserably, -88 pips. The entry was at about 1.4375 a few seconds after 7pm Eastern Time.

Option's price fluctuation

Options price fluctuations

I always wanted to know the price fluctuations of a specific option on a stock, both intra day and longer terms. This is pretty basic information but for some reason most Brokers' trading stations don't offer that feature (If ThinkOrSwim doesn't I bet most don't offer it either). This might help you...

The Dynamic position size paradox

In my previous post Risk a percent of your account per trade I talked about money management and capital protection basics, by only risking a fixed percent of your trading capital per single trade, and showed how to adjust your position size in a Forex play to meet this goal regardless of how far or close your stop loss is from the entry.

Given that we adjust the risk at our will by regulating the position size on every trade, we can say we are using a dynamic position size technique. Now let's analyze this interesting occurrence that has more to do with Math than trading but it is something to keep in mind for our game.

How to risk a percent of your account per trade

Many of us have read something like "Only risk x percent of your account per trade", as a rule of thumb. However not many of us, specially in Forex have a clear idea on how to achieve this. So, let's get down to business.