In the past few weeks we have seen the market move between some fairly extreme ranges. The 15 day Average True Range of the S&P ASX 200 has moved from 35 points at the beginning of March to 56 points – this is a 64% increase in volatility inside 20 trading days. This movement presents…
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If I pose a general question to traders and ask them to define risk in a trading sense, I will generally get an answer that states what their percentage risk on a given trade is. This is not an incorrect answer – it is merely an incomplete one. Risk within markets is a multi variant…
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Lately, I’ve had a few e-mails regarding which type of performance stats traders should be keeping. Since trading is essentially a small business, it is necessary for us to track our performance to see how we are doing. Simply looking at raw returns presents us with a picture that is incomplete. So in this blog…
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