Trader X take risk of 2% per trade and he makes about 30-40 % Return on trading capital per month,
Whereas Trader Y only risk 0.25% per trade and he makes about 3-4 % on Trading capital per month.
Trader Y saw how much trader X is making with the same amount of capital that he has.
He is frustrated with his mediocre results as compared to Trader X, though he don’t know the fact that Trader X Is only trading with 5 % of his total net worth.
Trader X has much more risk taking ability in Rupee terms as compared to the Trader Y because he has higher net-worth.
Trader X will not have much impact when he goes into deep Drawdowns , 40-50% where as if the Trader Y goes below 15% DD , it will have deep psychological impact on him.
Even if the Trader X makes 100% return on his trading capital , turns 25 lakh into 50 lakhs ,
it will be only 5% gain on his total net-worth.
Where as Trader Y who is using almost 80% of his total capital on his net-worth as Trading capital, so even if he makes 5% on his trading capital , it will have significant impact on his Net-worth.
Learning-
1. Don’t compare your trading results with anyone, because you don’t know there total capital, there source of income , Risk taking levels, Mindset
2. Anything is possible in markets, True, but it’s also a fact that The more % you make the more risk you have to take,
Sometimes you just don’t see that risk, but its there.
If someone making 10-20% in a day, then you accept it or not they are also taking the similar risk, Leverage is a good tool,but like Driving a car at 200 might not take you to the hospital this time, but eventually it will.
3. Market is a Money making machine, not in a single day, not In a single trade but only over a long period of time.
As @anandableanand say " There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are no old and bold traders".
Cheers,
Trader knight
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FEAR - It’s the re-experience of failure in advance.
Many traders face the issue of Not entering in trades because of fear.
A thread on How to pull the trigger when the opportunity knocks.
Lets First start from knowing the cause of this "FEAR" of pulling the trigger.
A traders goes through many phases before becoming Profitable.
The first phase is the " APUN HI BHAGWAN HAI" phase-
When we first begin Trading, we don’t know any concepts, we don’t know about the risks , the dangers.
So we start trading, and like most guys by beginners luck we start making good, we start to calculate how much money we will make in next 1yr, 5 yrs, Greed start to Hop in.
1. Scaling in is adding on to the positions when they move in our favor (Pyramiding).
2. Scaling - out is exiting the portion of the position when the trade moves in our favor.
I have explained about pyramiding in previous tweets.
// Why use scaling out instead of exiting all position at once ?
When you are using ALL - out method where you exit positions at once, mostly you use wider Trail SL as you want to capture big moves and exit all when trail sl hits.
Trend-lines are support and resistance lines which are formed by connecting Important swing points.
The beauty of using them is that We can use them when stock is not Respecting the Horizontal S&R zones, they can indicate us when the trend may change.
// Things To consider while Making trendlines?
• A trendline formed by using 3 Major-Swing points is a potential trendline, But we will also use 2 points to form a trendline, will discuss how, as you read further.
Normally I use this method for placing sl, In this method we use swing point for placing the SL.
As normally the stock would not try to go below previous swing point if it is to go in our direction.
2. ATR method-
Sometimes the Stock do not have any nearest pivot at time of buy, So we use this method as it gives us a level on basis of current volatility of the stock.
I use 1.5 ATR away sl , say the ATR at point of entry is 30, so I place sl 1.5 X, or 45 rs away from entry