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Showing posts with label probability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label probability. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Probability of staying within a range ~ forex trading oil

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Clients,

Today I will discuss a topic that is so great. I I wish it was talked about more in the industry but as of yet, it is still a hush hush topic. I cant speculate as to why but here goes.

Based upon past performance of various securities, there can be calculated a probability of a price range move within a specified amount of time. For instance, If the US Tech 100 has moved X points per hour, day, or week over the last X bars, there can be a calculation to figure out the average range as well as a probability of it staying within or moving outside of a range over the next hour, day or week.

Let us take a look at a live example as of today.


Now look at the chart. The expected range is etween 10 and 18 points of movement between 11am and 12pm eastern on the US Tech 100 for today.

There is a 68% chance it will stay in this range and a 32% chance it will move out of this range.

If price moves toward the top of the range and you can sell it for $32 at the top of the range, you will be using a break even strategy. If you can sell it for $50 at the top of the range, you will be using a profitable strategy.

Look at it this way....

Over the course of 1,000 trades, If you are selling for $32, then you will make $21,760 n 680 wins. Likewise, you will lose $21,760 on 320 losses.

Now look at the difference of selling for $50

680 wins = $34,000
320 losses = $16,000
Total P/L = +$18,000

Here is another way to play. If you are comfortable losing a lot and making gigantic winners, you can reverse it.

Lets assume you buy for $10 or sell for $90 to try to capture gains if price moves outside of the range.
Now remember you have to sell or buy back at $50. Let us look at 1,000 trades.

320 wins = $28,800
680 losses = $6,800
Total P/L = $22,000

So it is 10:30am eastern right now. Lets see what price on the US Tech 100 does before 12pm. Let us observe if this time period will be a 68% day or a 32% day.










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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Nadex Trade Signal Recap Profit Loss for this week ~ forex trading opening hours

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Here I will recap this weeks trades. Did we make any money or lose money? See below. Traders often ask me how much they can make. We have traders who trade all different amounts of size so at the bottom, I posted a list of the amount of money they made or lost if they traded X number of contracts.

Monday July 21, 2014
Bought Wall St 30 - $45 Profit

Tuesday July 22, 2014
Sold US TECH 100 - $25 Loss
Sold US TECH 100 - $0 Break even

Wednesday July 23, 2014
Sold US TECH 100 - $20 Loss
Sold US TECH 100 - $44 Profit
Sold Gold (weekly)  - Still open at the end of the day
Bought Silver  (weekly) - Still open at the end of the day

Thursday July 24, 2014
Closed Gold - $25 Profit

Friday, July 25, 2014
Closed Silver  - $75 Loss
Bought US TECH 100 - $44.50 Profit

Total profit/loss for the week:
Total - Profit of $38.50 if you traded one contract
Total - Profit of  $194.50 if you traded 5 contracts
Total - Profit of $389.50 if you traded 10 contracts
Total - Profit of $974.50 if you traded 25 contracts.

Some of the traders did not trade the gold and silver trades. If thats the case, then profits this week were $88.50 instead of $38.50.

Some traders told me they increased their contract size after a loss. I advise against that because it can become your death trap but if they did, they made more than whats posted. Remember though that there will come a day when you cant martingale your way to success. There will be strings of losers so that habit is ok if you limit it to one or two times but just keep yourself in check.

Lessons learned this week: One bad ITM trade can screw2/3 of the weeks profits. On a scale of 1-10, I rate this week as a 2.5. I was not happy with the results, even though we made a profit.

Highlight of the week: Our first trade of the week soared within a few minutes of buying it. Our Gold trade tanked once we sold it. These were 2 happy moments.

Note: This doesnt account for fees or commissions.

Happy Trading and see yall next week!
-Ryan
admin@joaquintrading.com


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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

This weeks recap Nadex Performance ~ forex trading on mac

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Yeah this week was a osing week! Last week was as well. However we are still up. Here is the performance numbers so far...

Week                    Weekly Performance   Running Total

July 21-25, 2014              +38.50              +38.50
July 28-Aug 1, 2014        +92.00              +130.50
Aug 4-8, 2014                  +37.00              +167.50 
Aug 11-15, 2014              +9.00                +176.50
Aug 18-22, 2014               -19.50              +157.00
Aug 25-29, 2014               -45.00              +112.00
Sep 1-5, 2014

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I am constantly trying to improve my strategies. Many times, I will get an email about why we took a certain trade or why we lost the trade. The answer is no one knows. If you have a strategy and trade it, you must take the ups with the downs. If it has been back tested enough and put through rigorous trial, you should have a strategy that you can rely on.

I posted a book on our group site today. It is called  "Trend Following" by Michael Covel. A trader really needs to read that because it has all the statistics anyone would need to learn to ride out the losses.

Mark my words, there will be a few weeks in the next year which produce hundreds of points of profit. You just need to keep striving. Keep learning. Always keep getting better and better.

Some clients asked me this week, "Why did you change your strategy?" I didnt. I have a toolbox of strategies I use because the market is always changing, always evolving. 

I did a webinar this week that showed how a trader could make a living by one strategy alone. If you want to stick to it day in and day out, you must first back test it. I showed a month or so of back testing in the webinar but in order to put your own money on the line, make damn sure you know it inside and out. If you want to test it, here it is...

At 8am every day, if the Wall Street 30 price is above the hourly 30 period exponential moving average, then buy the 8am-415pm upper bull spread at $30 risk or less. Set your Take Profit at +20. Vice A Versa goes for a sell. Thats it.

Now this strategy wins way more than it loses and it works great during trends. During consolidations, it doesnt work so well. 

Back test it. Back test it for the past 10 years, day by day and you will gain confidence. Always trade on a demo account until you have that confidence.

Well until next week! I am excited for September!

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

High Probability Trading Risks VS Rewards ~ forex trading office

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High Probability Trading has is great points but you must know that with high probability also comes higher risk. Let us take a look at some examples.

A random walk risk assessment would be a trade that is 50/50. In this type of trade you have about the same odds of winning or losing. You risk 50 to make 50.

A high Probability trade would be something like 80/20. You are risking 80 to make 20. The probabilities of winning are much higher but the risk is also higher. You must maintain a high win rate to be successful trading this style.

A low probability/high reward trade is something like 20/80. You risk 20 to make 80. You dont win that often but when you do, it covers 4 losses.

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Got that part? Good.

Now here is the interesting thing. What if you took an 80/20 trade where you risked 80 to make 20 but the probabilities were higher? What if that trade setup had a 90% win rate?

A 90% win rate means that 90 out of every 100 trades are winners. If you win 90 and lose 10, lets do the math...

90 winners x $20 per winner = $1800
10 losers x $80 per loser = $800

Total net profit = $1,000

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So what happens when you find a really good deal. They are hard to find but if you look long enough, they will start showing up.

So lets take a trade I took today. I sold it for $34.50 and it has a 4% chance of expiring worthless. (If I am selling, I want it to expire worthless so I keep the premium paid for it.)

Now this is a rock -n- roll trade. It has a 96% chance of expiring a winner. If it loses, I lose more than the $34.50. I actually lose $65.50. Why would I not take this trade. Lets do the math below...

96 winning trades x $34.50 = $3,312
4 losing trades x $65.50 = $262

Net Profit = $3,050

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Now let us look at a real example. Let us take the EURUSD binary weekly spread this week.


According to the probability studies, there are probabilities for expiring above or below certain prices:

Probability of expiring, Friday at 3pm, above:

1.3575 - 1.21%
1.3525 - 10.37%
1.3475 - 39.67%
1.3425 - 77.05%

Probability of expiring, Friday at 3pm below:

1.3275 - 0.01%
1.3325 - 0.29%
1.3375 - 4.03%
1.3425 - 22.95%
1.3475 - 60.33%

As you can see, the probabilities match up pretty close with the actual nadex prices.

However there is a way to get around this. I will go into this further next time. I will give you a hint. It involves buying way out of the money binaries and selling shorter term out of the money binaries.

Dont have time today but hang in there...

Again, this little blog post was to just get you thinking a different way... HAPPY TRADING!
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