They are acting on years of live market experience and a very refined
discretionary trading sense that is built upon analyzing price action.
The trick is that you need to develop your gut - feel or
discretionary trading instinct around an effective Forex trading strategy like price action analysis that gives you a frame - work to build your market perspective on.
Tudor also created a role for one of its partner - level money managers in London as head
of discretionary trading technology.
There are essentially two paths that people go down as they learn how to trade; they can either work to become a skilled trader with a finely
tuned discretionary trading sense, or they can decide to just gamble their money away by constantly being in the market and over-trading.
Or why you aren't, and will never be, John Paulson The systematic versus
discretionary trading argument is alive and well; or if you prefer, computers versus humans *.
They are able to take more losing trades than winners because they do not get attached to any one position, if a trade is not doing what they think it should be doing, based on their finely tuned
discretionary trading sense, they have no problem closing it out for a 1R or less, loss.
These are software systems that function as decision support tools, rather than decision - makers, and they analyze the market objectively to provide quantitative insight
for discretionary trading.
You want to replace as much of
your discretionary trading as possible with quantifiable signals that give you a specific reason for entering a trade.
Learning to trade in this manner takes a lot of time and effort up front, but as you proceed and learn, you will refine
your discretionary trading skills and eventually you will become a confident price action trader.
This process will give you a good overview of what's happening in the market and will help you better understand the overall market picture and whether or not anything is worth trading... it will help you stay «in tune» with the markets and will work to develop
your discretionary trading sense.
Discretionary trading allows for a more flexible approach than automated trading but it does take a certain amount of time to develop your discretionary trading skill.
Discretionary Trading: Discretionary Forex trading depends on a trader's «gut» trading feel or discretionary trading skill to analyze and trade the markets.
It was useful for me in
my discretionary trading as a way to pinpoint potential setups before analyzing them in the context of the market price action (S / R, trend lines, price swings etc..)
The former is a mechanical trade, and the latter is
a discretionary trade.
You'll need to use
your discretionary trading sense to ultimately decide which price action setups to take and which to pass on.
However these instances are rare and it takes time and effort to develop
your discretionary trading sense to the point where you can «effectively interfere» in your trades.
Instead, we only take those that meet our trading plan criteria and that «look» right... how a trade setup looks to you depends on
your discretionary trading ability.
Do
the discretionary trades do better than the set of mechanical trades?
If you have
a discretionary trading strategy, backtesting can be an arduous process.
You will develop
a discretionary trading sense that will allow you to trade for yourself forever; this is a skill that you can carry with you to not only Forex but to any market.
One core thing that I realized after moving from mechanical to
discretionary trading is the FREEDOM.
This is
the discretionary trading skill that is largely responsible for separating the winners from the losers.
We can develop
our discretionary trading instinct built on the foundation of price action, it's discretionary price action trading, meaning you don't take EVERY single price action signal that forms.
A computer program will simply see a «pin bar» or some other definable signal, but what it can not do is decide effectively whether or not that pin bar SHOULD be traded according to
the discretionary trading skill that the human mind can achieve.
However, it is possible to make consistent money even if
your discretionary trade setup identification skills are not fully matured yet.
There is something to be said for developing
your discretionary trading skills, as having a sharpened sense for spotting well defined trade setups at the right place and time is definitely a necessary ingredient to successful trading.
You will begin to see that you get «in - tune» with the market, and you will develop a natural feel for reading its price movement, in other words, you'll develop your price action trading intuition for the market, I also sometimes call this a «
discretionary trading sense».
Instead, they use their brain, they use their «gut», and they use
their discretionary trading instinct or intuition to help them analyze and trade the markets.
In total, Kelly Barnett executed 25
discretionary trades in the accounts of.....
Also, if the trader (I am assuming it isn't a commodity trading advisor) is handling all of the trading, I assume this is
a discretionary trading account.