Tag Archive for: Money management

Risk-reward ratio and win-rate: how to use these indicators

Derive benefits from every executed trade. Find a balance between the indicator of profitable trades and relation between the risk and yield. If you are an intraday trader, do not aim only at a big number of profitable trades but also at their quality. It might seem that if you execute 70% of profitable trades, […]

Take profit: what it is, how to calculate and post it

A Trading Edge on the exchange

Capital management

Capital management

Beginner traders often neglect capital management. It is a big mistake. They are more often interested in ‘when to enter into the market’ and less often ‘when to exit from the market’. In other words, the trading system rules are in the first place. More experienced traders start to pay due attention to risk management […]

Reward and risk. Destroying stereotypes

Reward and risk. Destroying stereotypes

We welcome all readers of our blog! In our today’s article we will try to destroy the well-established stereotypes in the interpretation of such an indicator of the trading system efficiency as the risk-reward ratio. In this article: False stereotypes in understanding reward and risk. Trading efficiency depends on a complex of indicators. Example of […]

Limitation of losses - start thinking about money. Part 1

Limitation of losses – start thinking about money. Part 1

It is well-known that good traders are masters of risk management. Risk management includes a detailed trading plan, rules of posting stop losses and limit orders and also the management of open positions, while keeping emotions under control. Good traders, as a rule, follow a clear trading plan, which places an emphasis on preservation of […]

When to close a profitable trade?

The modern futures market is a dynamic environment, which is characterized by significant and fast fluctuations of futures contract prices. Being under conditions of an unstable market situation, traders often have to make decisions about closing profitable trades very fast. Ability to systematically make immediate trading decisions makes a difference between successful traders and the […]