This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: Why you need to Red Team Everything and is reposted here with permission. Have you ever had an investment idea that you just knew was going to be a slam-dunk and make you a ton of money? So you put on a […]
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Increase your investment returns by red teaming your trade and investment theses! Red Teaming is when you get an
All your trades should end in one of four ways: 1. A small win: You take a profitable exit, this is usually a short term trade. 2. A big win: You let a winning trade run when you are on the right side of a trend. This is the biggest contributor to profitable trading as
This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: High Quality Trading Is Episodic, Not Continuous and is reposted here with permission. There’s two types of market returns. Alpha and beta. Beta is what you get for diversifying and passively holding the market. Alpha is the opposite. It requires an edge,
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So many people will quickly judge traders and investors as gamblers. In many families you can’t discuss trading openly without judgmental stares, rolling eyes, and disapproval. The general public does not understand that on a deeper level everyone is a trader in some way. We trade one thing in order to receive another thing. Not
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It is interesting when looking through the past few years of my trading activity that my profitability came from the longer term trades. The profits were in the trades that caught trends of weeks and months not a trade for a day or two. I have found the less I trade the more money I
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: and is used with permission. The Difference Between Great Traders and Good Traders: The Art of Totis Porcis The following is an excerpt from Barton Bigg’s book, Hedgehogging, where he relates a conversation with “Tim”, a successful macro investor (emphasis mine).
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Since the mini-crash in markets a few weeks ago, the S&P 500 has had a sharp V-bottom bottom rebound. But the question
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“There’s a million ways to make money in the markets, unfortunately they’re all very difficult to find.” – Jack Schwager Profitability in the financial markets is based on math not predictions and opinions. Here are the ten mathematical paths to profitability: Have a high winning percent where your winning trades and losing trades are similar
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For each trade you have to manage five things: Entry: Your trade entry has to be based on a quantified signal that will put the odds in your favor of the price moving in the direction to make you profitable. Stop loss: You have to decide on the level that price should not go if the trade
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