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The Capital necessary for trading
 
 
In order to do trading, money is required, but to a smaller extent than many may think.
What we can achieve, above all, are results that allow us to make a fortune in a relatively short amount of time (See William Delbert GANN’s bibliography)
Anyway, please remember that one can also ruin oneself by a bad management of one’s money....and, mind, even knowing analysis and anything related.
To avoid that, the following is needed:
  1. Fix how much capital you can assign to the market, and forget about it.
  2. Build a system that allows the capital to accrue.
  3. Manage money appropriately so as to check the volumes
To learn my method, you can operate in day trade or in swing trade with small quantities of shares with a value from $ 5,000 to $ 10,000. This is sufficient just to learn, not to make a living.
To Day-trade, you require a capital ranging from $ 30,000 to $ 50,000 as a start.
You must be ready to lose 1/3 or more of it, as long as you get on learning during the first one year or two years of apprenticeship.
After this preliminary statement, one must say that in order to operate in short on the American market you have to deposit in Security about 30% of the capital assigned to the operativeness for a minimum capital of $ 25,000.

Taken all in all, to Day Trade with a less than $ 50,000 capital is inconceivable.

After few operations you would inevitably meet with some calls and the consequent stop of the operativeness, if you cannot cover them within 24 hours.

If you think that in these two years the most successful operations have always been in short, you can understand that such a technique becomes fundamental.

How much capital do we have to set aside for each operation (or contract) then?
Micheal Harris maintains that the amount of money to be assigned to a system is equal to the product of its maximum historical drawdown and a number between 1,5 and 2,5.
 
The keystone of the whole system are the stop-losses that soon become stop-profits, the pyramid purchases and the patterns and pivots’ location.
If we have done all well, everything will work: we’ll get some profits and then we’ll have to decide whether to put them aside or use them to increase the contracts.
Much will depend on the capacity and efficiency of the market in which you operate, apart from the Broker; to understand, sometimes you’ll have to wait even a minute for the execution of 10.000 shares. And that will seem eternity to you.
If you operate like me in the technological of Nasdaq and you happen to experiment something similar, you’d better change Broker, since there are no markets in the world that are more flexible and efficient than the above-mentioned
 
God forbid that you listen to that friend of yours that wants to give you the right tip-off.....! ! !
 

It happened to me like this ....I received the typical phone call and did what I was told to do "in a pedestrian way". That day I bought something I did not know. The price around two dollars was already unusual for my standard range (from $ 25 to $75); they were energizers, a war in act was taking place behind and, if that was meant to be a deal, about 10.000 shares were good for the specific purpose. As time went by, nothing of what had been prognosticated to me occurred. I decided to sell, but that day noone seemed to be willing to buy... but at a dollar less than what I had paid for them. I had to wait before selling... The offer lasted about 2 weeks; at small denominations, inferior to 500 shares, I succeeded in getting rid of them, and, what’s more, sometimes under price. Actually my order had created some concern at the moment of the purchase, but I didn’t notice that. On the contrary I was happy to have moved the market, I felt like someone who counts in Wall Street, by creating a gap up that I was to “pay” later..... Had I remained inside, I would have lost even more. Still now the event that my friend (obviously in good faith) had predicted to be bound to happen in few days has not occurred yet......

 
It was real madness! Anyway He’s not being doing Trading any more...for a long time.
 
I concluded that
 

The fact of not being in a hurry to earn great amounts of money must surely allow me to do trading for a long time.

Thus, common sense will help us in our decisions time by time, together with the required study and application, as the greatest trader of all, William Delbert GANN, used to repeat.
 

"Speculation or investments are the best deal in the world if you make them be a real business. But in order to be successful you must be prepared. Do not try to guess or follow inner information or depend on hopes or fear. If you behave this way, you will fail. Your success depends on your knowledge of the right rules and the ability to apply them."

 
Welcome and Have a Good Trading .
 

 

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