im using the strategy described in the first post of this thread. i want to know that is it possible to trade for tiny margins say around 0.1% while using huge volumes through leverage to achieve the same targets?
and how can one determine at which point do slippage and liquidity actually become a problem while increasing your trade size? i would imagine that at large volumes it could actually take several minutes just for your order to get filled if you are using limit orders?
thanks in advance
i think u need to become something like a stock broker for the above purpose
because u will get free brokrage and stt ( as being part of business expense is adjusted against profit ) so no trading expense and hence every thing else will be profit .
if u place 0.10 % order even if ur brokrage is as low as 0.01% ur total cost will eat around 50% of ur profit .
but if we ignore all these things then , in my point of view probability of winning will cross atleast more than 90-95% times because 0.10 % target is something like RS 1 target for a share worth of 1000 bucks .
yet probability of sucess will increase dramatically while using such a small target but in this case i would rather suggest u to use or follow MACD indicator because this indicator gives very early signal (yet it cheats most of the time but for a small target like yours u r gonna be a winner )
practically speaking i have tasted and traded the technique upto 0.25 % and 0.33% levels and gives excellent results .
but while using all these with sucessfully even more than 80-90 % chances , question is what will be condition if by any how price goes against u i hope it losing 10- 15 % chances will eat all the profit generated by all wins and what should be a stoploss in such situation , that would be a million $ question .
one more important thing is that if u use high leverage or exposer and ur margin is significantly high then even if u will place a market order for buy or sell then it will not be executed so easily .
competition is still in this small profit world here Scalpers are sitting next to u to eat ur profit . i will explain it with an example .
1st of all u need to trade very high volume stocks such as ifci, rnrl,suzlon,rcom,unitech etc. suppose u trade ifci and it is trading around rs 50 ( for easy of calculation)
so u want to buy at 50 and set a target around (0.10 % of 50) RS 0.05 above than buy price i.e., RS 50.05
now suppose u put a buy (mkt ) order then u will find that the trade was executed @50.05 ( due to bid-ask spread )
and if u place a limit buy order around RS.50 then order will not be executed untill the price comes to 49.95 also if it comes it does not gurantee that ur whole order has been executed .
similar is true when u will try to exit from the position , ur target order of RS 50.05 will not be executed untill price comes upto 50.10 and it does not gurantee that all no. of shares have been traded ,
problem is also when u put a stoploss , in case of sl ur position will be auto killed because if u bought at RS 50 and ( we assume ur risk reward is 1:1) so you should place a target of RS 50.05 and SL around 49.95 .
as u place a SL order there are strong chances of its order matching with the corresponding
bid orders . and any small fluctuation will be dangerous .
u can say that u will trade costly stocks but u will never get such volumes there and even if u finds some then also the bid-ask spread will be higher there .
theoritically this kind of thing sounds well but practically very tough or nearly impossible for non- institutional traders like u and me , i hope information useful .:thumb:
regards
abhi