Showing posts with label basic rules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basic rules. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Timeframe and chart I trade.

I'm starting more and more often to trade 10 seconds chart and 1 minute chart, 5 minute and 15 minutes is only for support/resist and 1hour-3hour-daily is mainly for bigger trend, in fact, the best case is use 1 minute for trend and 10 seconds for entry.

Following the trend is hard to get decent entry, but less risk as well.

As long as I control my average in size and think about what if scenario, I'm ok with trend following.

Friday, June 11, 2010

blog trade template

1: daily is 3hourly hourly 15minute 5
2: News to come is:
3: What's the main event just happened that move the market? and is it trendy?

4: What do you think the market will do today?

5: Were you right about the market? (After the trading session)

6: What's the trade? Is it related to the previous loser or winner?
Do you take half at 1R?
How many pips it risk?

what's the daily limit and daily risk now? 60/

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Some basic rules for now.

1: never trade non active session again, meaning spread is 1.5 or more, except breakout of major support/resist point, such as the one ECB talk , and I should only trade with the breakout.

2: follow the direction of the breakout, and write plan before trade.

3: In trend following trade, buy or sell the ema62 bounce on 10s or 30s or 1 minutes chart.

4: In reverse trade, only the DIV setup with confirmation.



If any of these rules are broken, I need to write a reason for justification.


Some of the points I can think of, but not required for now:

* What would tell you the trade is wrong?

* Where might you think of adding to the trade?

* Rules that tell you when to take a break and reduce risk (trade size) in a slump

* Think of the what if scenario

Risk/Money management factors:
For example, a 30K USD account, with about 20 pips stop loss, a size of 50K lot, would create max los of 100$ per trade, that is 1/300 (0.33%) risk on each trade. So with 30K USD cap, u can get 1R at 100$, now the table:
1R    CAP
100    30K
500    150K
1000  300K
Looks like one should be live on trading easily with a 300K account. 
When to stop trading for the day: Loss of 5R
When to reduce size of trading: Loss of 15% (45R), with 1:50 leverage, the trading account only need to have 3K, the rest 27K can be in reserve account.