avinash said:
Thanks.....Saint,Have a question.Please answer it whenever you are free(weekend,etc.)
==I have been entering into the stocks that you have recommended but no specific sharesize.Am I right?Sometimes I see in your updates the stop loss is quite far away.....so far what I've chosen among your stocks I have been very profitable.But if the stop loss gets hit the loss is huge.I am a bit confused.....as I am a novice and you have helped me a lot,please teach this one thing also...how many shares to buy?
thanks in advance.
Avinash
Hi Avinash,
Share sizing is an art form .....Understanding it gives you great power and great profits.Also the stop loss when triggerred does not affect you in the least.One just moves on to get another stock and make profits there.
Let us for example use ISPAT INDS.I caught this move from November last year so it's easy to quote this as an example.
STEP 1:First,I should know the capital that I have.Let us presume it is 10 lakhs that I am playing with.How much am I willing to risk per trade?Anywhere bet 0.5%-2%.Let us say that I am willing to risk only 1% per trade.Therefore what is my risk per trade?Ans:1/100 times 10L=Rs10,000/-
STEP 2:Next we go to our charts.Entered on November 3rd at 13 with a stop loss of 11.So we got our ENTRY and STOP LOSS.
STEP 3:Now is this trade worth it?Therefore we calculate the reward to risk.The ratio should be greater than 2:1.Our target is 20.That gives us a 3.5:1 reward to risk.
So this trade is worth taking,We have a great entry point,a stop loss and a target.The reward to risk is worth it.But how many shares?
STEP 4:A s we calculated just now,for a capital of 10lakhs,we are risking only Rs10,000 for this trade.Meaning if the stop loss is hit,we lose Rs10,000.So how many shares do we buy?Ans:10,000 divided by the dist from entry to stop loss=10,000 divided by(13-11)=5000.
So we buy 5000 share of ISPAT at 13 with a stop loss of 11 and a provisional target of 20,with a reward to risk of 3.5:1.
Once a perfect entry,stop loss and share size is looked into,the trade is now on auto-gear.Then we trail stop it upwards till target or till taken out.
Hope I have helped answer your doubt.
Happy Trading!!
Saint