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Trading Expert Discovers Ways To Beat Stock Market Odds With Money Management
By: David Jenyns
The first point to mastering money management is that you have to understand
when you’re trading on the stock market is that you are playing the odds – but
unlike many forms of gambling, you can make money. The key to making this money
is to respect the risk that is part of the market, and manage it. Money
management is a set of rules and guidelines that enables you to turn a profit.
By being triumphant with your money management skills, you can keep your risk at
a level at which you’re comfortable with, keep from making poor trading
decisions, and ensure you don’t loose your trading capital. This is why it is so
important to follow money management rules.
Why do these money management rules work? You know, it’s funny. I once thought I
had a fool-proof way of making money on roulette. You see, I’d bet on red and
black. I’d sit at the table. After the ball had landed on black or red five
times in a row, I would start betting on the opposite color.
Let’s say I had five reds in a row. I would then start to bet on black. If I was
wrong, I would go ahead and double down, so that if I started my bet at one
dollar, the next time I would be able to bet two dollars, then four dollars,
then eight, then 16. With this system, eventually I’d win and I’d come out one
dollar ahead.
So, here I am at 23 and I’ve set up my computer program to test my theory. I
made a ridiculous amount of money in the program. I really thought I had the
Holy Grail here. But, if it’s so easy for an 23 year old to figure it out, why
aren’t all the casinos out of business and why aren’t we’re all millionaires?
Unfortunately, roulette doesn’t work this way.
You see, if we’re flipping a coin, heads has a 50 percent chance of turning up
on each flip of the coin and so does tails. But, each flip is independent of the
last. The last coin toss has nothing to do with the one before it, each flip is
a random event. This means it’s possible to get a hundred heads in a row if you
do it long enough, and believe it or not, that’s what happened to me. When I
first played roulette in a casino, I saw a string of 23 blacks in a row. I went
home defeated.
Trading is the same. A percentage of your trades will not work out. A certain
percentage will not go in your favoured direction, and the next trade has
nothing to do with the last one. Even if you have the world’s most accurate
method, over time you will go broke if you don’t practice good money management.
Money management rules include defining your trading float, setting your maximum
loss, calculating your stop loss, and most importantly learning how to choose
your position size. Once these rules are in place, it’s important to stay with
them. They will keep you from making snap decisions, and playing the odds longer
than you should. This is why money management rules are a critical part of any
effective trading system.
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