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Saturday, August 23, 2014

How to Trade with the Odds in Your Favor



Many private traders like the exciting environment of trading the financial markets. Trading can be a wonderful hobby. For hobbies, we like to spend money and this is usually what happens; however, if you want to take trading and investing serious, you need to start being a probability thinker: Understanding how probable it is for you in a string of investments to make money following clearly defined trading or investing guidelines.
What are your odds of making money?
Before we help you to answer this question, let us reiterate some prerequisites of trading success:
  • Have a system.
  • Be disciplines and follow the system.
  • Trade only, when the odds are in your favor
Example: NeverLossTrading Top Line Chart for FAS

At this NeverLossTrading example, you only trade when the price development of the candle following the trade initiation candle (situations marked with numbers) surpasses the spelled out price threshold: Buy>$101.10 for example. Summary: The price of the next candle has to move higher to validate the entry proposal. The trade target is pre-calculated and either marked with a dot on the chart or by a horizontal NLT Price Gravitation Line. The red line on the chart: NLT Double Decker Line allows for trailing your stop.
To calculate or evaluate the odds of the trade situation, we run a quick appraisal for the three trade situations, which all have a high probability trade setup at the chart constellation:
Situation-1: Risky, by having a substantially higher risk than reward: Stop at the high of the candle.
Situaiton-2: Favorable setup. Stop at the low of the candle, with a higher reward than risk.
Situaiton-3: Favorable setup. Stop at the low of the candle, with a higher reward than risk.
However, if your trading system does not portrait entries, exits, and stops, what do you do?
A simple way of calculating the odds of a trade setup is:
Probability of the Trade Setup (past performance) x Reward / (Risk x Probability of Failing)
At this point, note the Golden Rule of Trading Success:
The factor of this calculation shall be above 1.5-points.
Example-1: Probability for success of the trade setup (from history): 65%, with a risk of $1 and a reward of $1. The calculated factor comes to 1.94; thus, it is above 1.5 and tells you that you found a trade setup where the odds in your favor according to our Golden Rule. 
Example-2: Probability for the trade setup: 58%, with a risk of $1 and a reward of $1. The calculated factor comes to 1.38 and is below 1.5 telling you that the odds of the trade setup evaluated are NOT in your favor.
When it is that easy, why do most private investors fail to achieve their financial goals?
Our answer: Most private investors or traders use trading systems, which are either random or produce a probability for success between 53% - 57% where the factor < 1.5.  Examples are:
  • Moving average based indicators: MACD, Bollinger Bands, RSI, CCI...
  • Candle setups: Doji, Harami, Hangman…
  • Long-term patterns: Head and Shoulder, Cup and Handle…
We tested and programmed all of those setups and many others. For traders who sign up for our program, we always offer to parallel-program the trade situation, you based your decision on and then we compare.
In addition, most standard indicators are lagging and propose entries when the major price move is close to over; providing you a trade-setup where the risk is mostly higher than the reward; bringing you into a circle-of-doom-pattern:  Small gain, small gain, big loss.
This is where NeverLossTrading systems make a difference.
1.    You trade at major swing points of institutional supply and demand shifts.

E-Mini S&P 500 Daily Chart with NLT Top-Line Indicators



2.    By the support of calculation tables, you get your trade situation appraised, calculating the likelihood for success, potential risk and reward, with a proposal for the position sizing.
NeverLossTrading Evaluation Model


3.    Critical for the private investor is to know about trading opportunities. Choosing from 40,000 US-traded stocks is not easy. With NeverLossTrading, you can always stay engaged in the market, by either scanning the for favorable trade setups, using NLT Top-Line integrated market scanners or by subscribing to the NLT Alerts (free for three months with a mentorship).
Scan for Your Trading Opportunities or Subscribe to our NLT Alert Service

In the NeverLossTrading Mentorship, you further experience:
  • Individual training units, fit to your personal wants and needs (all recorded)
  • 200-page documentation for easy access to key information.
  • Six month of mentorship with trade feedback and further education.
  • All software installed for you. The license fee paid off with the initial tuition.
  • Real time data on a server based programming, available from every computer.
  • Data feed from a free platform with no need to change your broker relationships.
  • ...
All for helping you to develop yourself into the trader, you want to be!
Several NeverLossTrading Mentorships are offered, which support Day Traders, Swing Traders, and Long-Term Investors.
Take the chance and test us live. Schedule a free consulting hour, where we get together online with you, share our screens and answer your questions:
Call: +1 866 455 4520
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Please always consider the risk of trading and that past performance cannot be taken indicative for future results.
Good trading,
Thomas

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