Sentences with phrase «to let one's winners run»

There's a balance here, and for my clients, I try to generate taxable losses on net, while letting winners run.

But that's a good thing if you're interested in letting your winners run.

We can see that the trader seems to have issues with letting winners run, which is also a common theme we identified during his actual trading journal review (link above).

If I catch a winning trade in my favor I will let the winner run until my trailing stop loss is triggered.

What this means is that as the trade moves in your favor you're going to be holding the smallest portion of your position at the MOST profitable part of the trade... doesn't seem like the best way to let your winners run does it?

However, this is not an invitation to bet everything on a hot investment, let a winner run for too long without trimming it, or go to cash if you're scared.

This runs counter to the old adage of letting your winners run, but the periodic rebalancing realizes the profits regularly rather than trying to time market sentiment for maximum profit.

It's interesting that Richard Dennis trained his turtle traders to enter the market randomly like this in order to make them aware that the important thing is not necessarily how the market behaves but how they react to what the market does (i.e. that losses and let winners run longer the the losses).

When traders that do not use stop losses are holding a large loss you are making a large gain letting a winner run and trailing a stop loss behind in case it reverses.

That's why you may consider the inverse approach to the win - quick / lose - long philosophy: let your winners run, and cut your losses quickly.

Says Gossage, «It's like cutting your losses and letting your winners run.»

You always here, «Buy low, sell high,» but this is in direct conflict of what you are advising, more along the lines of «Cut your losses and let your winners run.»

But eventually, through the school of hard knocks and learning from my numerous mistakes, I began to develop a winning trading strategy that enabled me to let the winners run, while also knowing the proper time to take profits before the inevitable reversals and pullbacks.

You've probably heard the saying «Cut your losers short and let your winners run», but how do you actually do that?

The basic idea of trend following is let your winners run.

We also need to try and let some winners run to get larger risk rewards like 1:3, 1:4 or more.

As we can see in the hypothetical track record above, the math shows us that even while losing 57 % of our trades, if we let our winners run to around 2 to 1 or better and cut our losses at -1 R or less, the profits will take care of themselves.

By having those guidelines in the business plan, I prioritize balance and diversification higher than the principle of «let your winners run.»

So rule number 1 in trading: Cut your losers and let winners run.

You will notice I let my winners run and cut losses very quickly this is the key for successful trend following

Whilst it is important to «let your winners run»... you have to pick and choose when you do this; you certainly should not try to let every winning trader run.

Trading methods, trading systems, trading plans, risk / reward ratios, win rates, letting winners run and cutting losers short can sound mysterious to new comers to the financial markets.

Let your winners run, they might surprise you.

I follow a strict trailing stop - loss system to let my winners run and cur losers out as quickly as possible and re-invested in new attractive ideas.

I'm sure you have heard the old adage about cutting losses and letting winners run.

We will let our winners run to larger position sizes, but for portfolio risk management purposes, we limit our exposure to any one holding to 8 % of the portfolio's total value.

But I would point out Jones semms much more of a Trader than Investor, and advocates taking very quick losses and letting winners run.

Let your winners run 4.

Novices do not really understand how to implement the tried - and - true trading maxim which states «let your winners run and cut your losses.»

Favorable trading strategies and money management techniques are great, but in order to cut your losses short and let your winners run, you have to open up your mind to account for all possible outcomes.

In this article, we will focus on money management techniques, or how to keep your losses small and let your winners run.

My strategy will look to ride major long - term trends by cutting losses short and letting winners run.

Traders should be disagreeable enough to know where to cut their losses or to let their winners run.

You want to let your winners run and not sell too early, if possible.

He attributes the turning point in his success to properly managing risk — cutting his losers early and letting his winners run; a piece of «uncommon sense» which most traders don't adhere to and explains why they're on one side of the performance column and Tyler is currently successfully sitting on the other.

A reminder to myself: cut losses early (and let winners run!)

Trailing stop are the tools that allow you to let a winner run and be ready to lock in profits when the run is over.

Find out how to keep your capital losses small and let your winners run.

The key is capping the downside risk when you are wrong but leaving the upside profit potential open, in essence the old saying: «Cut your losers short but let your winners run.»

In order to make good money in the market you have to learn to let your winners run.

Also, we should let winners run but periodically «trim» these positions when they become too big.

Let winners run.

Cut losses short 3 Let your winners run 4.

To let your winners run is psychologically hard to implement because the natural human tendency is to fear losing those profits.

«The momentum factor is based on buy high, sell higher or alternatively, cut your losses and let your winners run.

As a practical matter, a 4 - 5 % position is «huge for us» though he has learned to let his winners run a little longer than he used to, so the occasional 6 % position wouldn't be surprising.