daer JAI
All of this is excellent theory.The bottom line is to trade for profit and cut your losses so that you have a chance to recover your losses.Defensive or offensive or aggresive trading has a bottom line THAT IS COOL PROFITS.That should be the ONLY STRATEGY.
I am saying this from my personal experience as i have tried out all these concepts for long.THE ONLY STRATEGY IS TO THINK OF PROFITABLE SITUATIONS,COME HELL OR HIGH WATER,FOR A TERM THAT YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH.
Hi jatayoo,
It's a positive thing to think bout profits, but accepting just profit making as your strategy cannot be termed as trading/investing. If you just trade keeping profits in mind, and not worrying bout MM (money management), then you are in the wrong field. You would probably have more luck in a casino.
MM is equally important in trading as is an entry or an exit of a position. Equity trading is much safer, but if you were to trade forex/commodities without MM, then I can say with some confidence that your account (no matter how small or how big it might be), wouldn't last more than 3 months. I've seen before my own eyes, people opening numerous positions, hedging against their positions, over-trading, being over confident or too egoistic to accept tht they made a wrong decision, eventually blow up their account in a matter of days.
The bottom line is to trade for profit and cut your losses
My friend, unknowingly, you too are using a MM strategy. This is known as a Reward Risk ratio, where your Reward should be 2 or 3 compared to a risk of 1. You just contradicted yourself
MM is like the fuel tank of a car. Would you fill the tank according to the Car size (account size) or the tank size (MM capability)?
I'm sure your answer would be obvious. Over-trading and/or emotional trading will always cause a trader to lose money. This is the soul reason why we have so many newbies losing tons of money in the start, coz they encounter the very 1st emotion when introduced to trading, i.e. Greed.
Regards,
Jai Shewaramani