How is Your Trade Aggressiveness? | Thread profile

The more threads I have read, whether it is about a trading style, a type of method to trade, a timeframe preference.. each thread invariably tends to take a detour briefly.. One poster thinks another is being hateful or stepping on their method, the other poster backpedals signaling that "was not the intent” and it occurred to me that a lot of these tend to boil down to one simple statement: "...

Naturally, I am a more aggressive trader. For equities, I like to be in the trade before the breakout. But on the other hand, I never enter with a big position. In fact, I am extremely conservative in that sense. I realize that if the breakout doesn't come and the stock moves the other way, it quickly wipes out the position due to various components against me such as IV, Delta, etc. On ...

Interesting thread... throughout the early years of my trading career, I went through a phase where I would be right about short term moves in the market but could not seem to profit from it. After thorough analysis, I realized I was overly aggresssive which forced me to jump into trades too early. Even my old mentor mentioned I was too aggressive. As a result, one of the things I struggled to ...

99.9% of the traders out there want confirmation. With that in mind, it makes more sense for me to be on the aggressive side. All my best, MK

Quote: MidKnight 99.9% of the traders out there want confirmation. With that in mind, it makes more sense for me to be on the aggressive side. All my best, MK I think there are degrees to the confirmation. This could be one extra bar, two bars, indicator based, ...

Degree of aggression can be measured by degree of 'earliness' or 'lateness' as measured from a turning point. By waiting for confirmation you often give up trade location to have confirmation and also momentum already on your side. As you note the very earliest (most aggressive traders) will trade before the turn. (buying into a selling climax) This by definition would be counter trend trading....

Quote: Sledge The more threads I have read, whether it is about a trading style, a type of method to trade, a timeframe preference.. each thread invariably tends to take a detour briefly.. One poster thinks another is being hateful or stepping on their method, the other poster backpedals signaling that "was not the ...

Quote: Soultrader Interesting thread... After thorough analysis, I realized I was overly aggresssive which forced me to jump into trades too early. Even my old mentor mentioned I was too aggressive. As a result, one of the things I struggled to change was to hold myself back and wait for further confirmation.... ...