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[realtraders] As I Ponder {03}



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I agree, the time frame is not related to trading success, but it
influences trading style. Indicators and systems tend to work best on
the short time frame.  Fundamentals, company selection best for longer
term traders.  Buy and hold only need be in when market advancing
continually. Many small gains compounded often are more lucrative than
the one larger gain encountered infrequently

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Alexander Levitin wrote:
> 
> Dear Pondering Mark,
> 
> Is time frame traders choose correlated to the amount of trading capital?
> 
> If what we know (from the books) about "great" traders is true then - no.
> There are traders with substantial capital that trade short term (on the
> floor) and there are traders with large capital that trade long term (Mr.
> Baffett).
> 
> The time frame (in my opinion) correlated with trading style, the trading
> style correlated with so called "psychological" make up of the trader (the
> "personality" of the trader) even nobody knows what it means. The trading
> style also influenced by the "education of the trader" (how he/she get
> started to trade and how he/she progress in it).
> 
> The capital of the trader is derivative of the trader's success. Trading
> business is such that successful trader increase his/her capital very fast,
> and if the success is "systematic" (result of the trading approach) as
> opposite of the "luck" then capital stays large and continue to grow (in
> slower pace, understandable). On the contrary, the trading capital
> disappears with the speed of light if the trader received it through the
> luck either in trading or in other walks of life (inheritance, sale of the
> previous business, etc.)
> 
> There are a specific problems to each trading time frame and different size
> of trading capital. Also the "betting success average" (number of times the
> trader is "right") presents specific set of problems.
> 
> There is nothing more important in traders life then "money management" (or
> give that field any other name). No amount of "greatness" (Jessy Livermore)
> could save you without it.
> 
> Opinionated Alex.
> 
> At 11:21 AM 11/16/99 -0600, Mark Brown wrote:
> >  ... Do you think the correlation is between looser in the
> >   market  and the time frames in which they follow? In other words do
> >   you  think  that smaller time frames observed = less money made? Do
> >   you  think  there  are any correlations between the amount of money
> >   put  to  risk  vs  the  amount  of  money made?
> >
> >   I  have observed the following samplings of data. Less money = less
> >   risk tolerated = less winners = faster depletion of trading capital
> >   =  less  experience = more obsession with every tick of data = more
> >   concern  for  commission cost = more enthusiasm for the passing new
> >   guru  of the day = willingness to listen to the pro's warnings (who
> >   say  this  business  is  much harder than the magazines lead you to
> >   belive)  only  after  the  money's  gone and the day job is back in
> >   everyday life.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >

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