Thread on system trading and conviction to follow them.
1) On Aug 2016, I had my highest ever loss of 18 L due to illiquidty risk. I had shorted JustDial 500 CE and was in profit at 3.19 pm but at 3.20 pm lost -18 L due to a risk I wasn’t aware at that time.
2) I had huge qty in Just Dial CE but as my position was huge and Just Dial being an illiquid script. My position got squared from 0 to 10 Rs. I was in 1.3 L profit at 3.19 & 3:20 -18 L.
Lost almost 20 L in a min
Check my email to Zerodha and their reply to understand more.
3) I was totally upset as I never thought that I could lose so much due to illiquidity.
There was nothing wrong with system or risk management but this was a risk which I was never aware.
This made me believe in risk management ever then before.
4) Inspite of the huge loss, I kept following my system.
I made the highest ever profit in % term in next 3 months.
Almost 75 L profit in from sept 2016 to Dec 2016.
5) I have been in drawdowns several times since then but have never lost the convinction to follow my systems.
Drawdowns are inevitable for a trader.
We can only manage risk & follow our systems.
Never take markets lightly & never make a loss so big that affects you emotionally
6) Last week, I have been on a drawdown but I am sure that will hit new equity soon.
Reason for this thread :
1) Focus on risk management & types of risks 2) Backtest& Follow your systems 3) Don’t be afraid of losses & drawdown as no system can make money all the time
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Importance of Risk Management
(Real Life Examples)
1) On 21st Sept 2018, I had sold 330 PE overnight and YesBank opened 10% lower and closed the day at -33%. But I survived as I bought 320 put as protection.
If I had not bought 320 PE then would have lost 10 L
At around 12 pm, I had 22200 straddle and was in a profit of 35
points per lot.
But around 1:30 pm markets fell sharply and I had an otm buy stop on 21700 PE at 145 (I keep these orders in the system to protect mtm if there’s a big directional movement)
(2)
The protective order got executed at 145 and BNF also broke 22000 (crucial support)
I sold additional calls of 22000 at around 220 with a SL as system had turned bearish.
I always keep my mistakes & lessons learnt in front of my screen while trading.
Bcz we as traders tend to commit the same mistakes everytime.
So seeing your learnt lessons everyday ensures that you avoid them. #trading#mistakes (1)
In 2017, I analysed all my trades and saw that I have majorly lost in stock futures and profits came only via index trading.
I accepted that I am not great at stock trading and been trading index only majorly since then.
(2)
I decided to adjust all of my past losses to 1 % of capital to see what the effect of capping the downside.
I would have had a gain of more than 230 % if I had capped losses at 1% of cap.
Did a webinar to discuss about your Quantitative Trading Program.
Few takeaways & resources
1. If you do not have minimum 10lakhs of capital for trading or find our course a bit expensive then, you can get started with this basic udemy course.