In my videos, I frequently use the term "trading account drawdown ". Many of you asked me to explain the meaning of that term and share some examples. What is Trading Account Drawdown? The account drawdown is the highest observed loss from the highest value of the deposit to the lowest value of the deposit at a certain period of...
This is the continuation of lesson 6a focusing on Money Management and how to optimize your performance in trading. It investigates the mathematics, probability and statistics.
Every trader, novice or seasoned, knows the sting of drawdowns. While they're inevitable, managing them effectively is key to trading success. Even the most renowned traders face drawdowns. Consider Richard Dennis, the legendary Turtle Trader, who transformed a mere $1,600 into over $200 million. Surprisingly, he experienced drawdowns of over 80% at times so I've...
Drawdown is the metric used to measure the decline in a performance curve relative to a previous peak. It represents the distance between a maximum point in the capital curve and its subsequent minimum. This indicator can be visualized in relative terms (%) or absolute terms (€, $...). In my opinion, I always recommend using relative data as it makes the analysis...
Understanding the concepts of relative drawdown and absolute drawdown is crucial for effective risk management and evaluating the performance of trading strategies. In this publication, we will delve into the understanding of both relative drawdown and absolute drawdown. 🔷 Relative Drawdown: (Sometimes referred to as equity drawdown) Relative drawdown is...
A drawdown is a period of decline in the value of a portfolio. This is where you take a number of trades, and the losses drop the portfolio at a marginal level (if you know what you’re doing). During these times, the market is typically more volatile (jumpy) and unpredictable. And so you have a higher chance to risk money in unfavourable times. Risk less with...
I want to cover different ways to handle yourself during a drawdown to minimise your losses. Minimise Drawdown Part #1: Lower your risk per trade There are times when the market will be in a bad market environment… This is when no matter whether you buy or sell, you end up just taking a whole bunch of losses. The first trick is to pinpoint when the market...
A Drawdown is a drop in a portfolio value after one or more trades. It’s when the portfolio dips from the highest high. Once you’ve entered into the inevitable drawdown phase, you’ll need to know how much you’ll need to recover. That’s where the drawdown calculation comes in… The Drawdown Formula to recover after a portfolio drop Let’s use three examples of...
Hey traders, In my videos, I frequently use the term "drawdown". Many of you asked me to explain the meaning of that term and share some examples. The account drawdown is the highest observed loss from the highest value of the deposit to the lowest value of the deposit at a certain period of time. Imagine you started to trade with 10,000$ account. At the...
Hey Trading Friends. Did you know you can still make money with trades being in drawdown. In this video, I show you through 4 trades I myself have taken. If you have questions about drawdown I'd love to chat with you. You can reach me in the comment section.
Today I want to touch on a very important topic - account drawdown. Every trader will face this problem sooner or later, because losses in the forex market are inevitable. And if a professional knows what to do and has experience dealing with such a problem, then beginners often get lost when faced with a drawdown, which leads to even greater losses. What is...
My thoughts about performance. This kind of info is not very available so I have to do some guesswork. We that spend all day in front of the computer expect to get better returns than 10% a year. But we have no idea what is possible and where we "rank" compared to others. All academics look at ever is day traders, yes 99% of day traders lose money and 1% earn...
There are three types of drawdown in trading Absolute drawdown Relative drawdown Maximum drawdown
Morning traders. Middle of the trading week all ready! I thought I'd take this opportunity to discuss a topic we all fear and we all find ourselves in at some point in our trading journey. That topic being draw down and your account in a loss of starting capital. The table I have drawn on the chart shows the amount of gain required to get an account back to...
I lose a lot of the time. A large amount of my trades are stopped-out for a loss. This does not make me a bad trader, it actually makes me a real trader! Most profitable traders are right only 40%-65% of the time. A lot of traders understand that there will be losing trades. What they don't understand is that there will be consecutive losing trades. Even a...
Almost all traders understand the concept of a drawdown - a period of loss making. A trader is not going to have a 100% trade win rate - there will be losing trades - and there will be times of consecutive losing trades. For some reason, despite understanding this concept, many traders don't ACCEPT this concept. Let me explain... As soon as a trader hits a...
Between 1990 and June 2000 the median hedge fund (there are not that many that started in 1990) had an annual return of 16.3% and max drawdown of 28.5% according to MORGAN STANLEY. Keep in mind the 2/20 destroys profits. (16.3%*1.25)+2% = 22.4%, and 28.5-2 = 26.5%. So what the median fund actually did I I did not mess it up was get 22.4% return a year and a max...
In my opinion, there is no need to hold through a draw down. Exit the trade that goes against you, and place an order at your original entry in case price comes back up to that level. Why sit there at look at a negative PnL HOPING the trade will turn around? Check out the video example.