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Why Paper Trading Is Counter Productive
Paper trading is the biggest mistake that new traders can make. This is the most counterproductive way to learn how to trade properly. When paper trading, every single trading decision is based on zero emotions. You are actually training yourself how to decide entry and exit targets based on no risk. It is a fact that the greater the risk, the greater the reward. As paper trading has zero risk, it has no reward. It will actually increase your risk to gain reward when you start to trade with real money because you have been teaching yourself how to make decisions that do not apply in the real world. When you start to make these decisions in real life, it will be financially devastating.
In order to trade properly, traders must possess 100% technical skills, but they only need to apply 15% of these skills when trading. The other 85% of the equation is keeping their emotions under control. Trading profitably is 15% technical and 85% emotional. So how do you keep your emotions in check?
To do this, you must determine how much money to risk during the learning curve that makes trading a productive and educational experience. We do not suggest that you risk all your capital on each trade to make sure that you are “emotionally trading the markets.” As individuals, we all have a different financial situation, and each person will have a specific zone where a certain amount of money at risk triggers a specific amount of emotion. Do you think a person with risk capital of over $2 million is going to be emotional with $100 at risk? If this person buys 100 shares of a $20 stock and the stock trades down to $19, is he going to have any emotions? I am sure that if he owned 10,000 shares in this situation, there would be a large number of emotions involved, probably too many emotions.
No one can speak for another individual’s emotional level. What each of us must do to make trading educational is to find our “emotional risk level.” I have a friend just starting out that trades a $25,000 account. He finds that a loss of $100 creates an emotional environment and $70 to $130 is his emotional risk level. When this trader is risking $50, there is not enough emotion. When he risks $500, there is too much risk and his emotions are too powerful for him to think clearly and to make proper decisions. After this trader had a month of experience, his emotional risk level increased so he was comfortable, yet still emotional, when risking $400.
The secret to educational and profitable trading is to closely monitor your emotional risk level and change your actions as necessary. This can also mean lowering your risk capital. My friend who was comfortable with $400 had to lower this amount to $300 after he and his wife found out they were pregnant and decided they needed to buy a house because their rented apartment was too small. This added more financial responsibility, and the down payment on their home lowered his risk capital. Numerous variables can come into play and influence a person’s emotional risk level, and only you can judge where this level should be. No one knows your situation better than you do.
For those who are completely new to direct access trading, paper trading can be helpful only when you are learning the software platform. It is not wise to begin trading with real capital while trying to learn software. If you do not know how to set up charts, watch lists, order entry, hot keys, and if you are not familiar with the Level 2 screen, trading in demo mode is recommended when you follow a specific set of rules. Most demo accounts allow you to trade with a $1-million account. They also provide you with fictitious order fills. So in order to learn properly using a demo account, you must follow these guidelines:
1. If you will be opening a $50,000 trading account, make sure that the demo account size is $50,000 and not the standard $1 million. Ask your broker to change the default demo amount to your actual account size. The reason is to make sure that you do not get used to risking more money than you have. If a new trader is used to risking $100,000 in demo mode, he is more likely to risk too much when he “goes live” trading real capital.
2. You should trade share sizes that meet your emotional risk level. You do not want to get used to trading 2000 share lots when, in reality, you will be using only 200 shares or whatever amount meets your emotional risk level.
3. Ignore unrealistic order fills that overpay for each trade. Trading simulators will often fill your order at a price that would never happen in the real world. If you want to buy a stock that is currently trading at $20, place your order for $20.05 and when you want to exit, do the same. If the stock moves up to $21, place your sell order for $20.95. This helps the trader get used to real life order fills. You do not want to get used to the paper profits that would never occur in real life.
4. Create real emotions while paper trading. Find a friend to compete against in demo mode. For each point that you win, the other player must pay you $5 and vice versa. (Make sure you place a cap of $100 during your friendly competition.) This helps bring emotional trading decisions into the equation.
As soon as you are comfortable with the trading platform software, stop paper trading and start trading live, but make sure you stay within the lower limits of your emotional risk level during your first week. You will become a successful trader more quickly trading in live mode than if you trade in demo mode. Continuous paper trading will decrease your odds of successful trading because after doing something repetitive, it becomes instinct. Trading an unrealistic account size, unrealistic share sizes, getting unrealistic order fills, and trading unemotionally with no real risk repeatedly will provide you with instincts that are useless and counterproductive. When you decide to trade live after paper trading, you will actually trade at a level below someone with no experience. Before you can advance, you will have to shed all of your bad habits.
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Creating Your Watch List (Universe of stocks)
Some people like to trade the same stock over and over throughout the trading day. Traders tend to get a good feel for how one particular stock moves. A trader becomes familiar with its reoccurring support and resistance areas from trading the same stock repeatedly for a week, month, or even year. The trader knows from previous experience which market makers are the real buyers or sellers, and they know when the market maker has finished filling a big order. Becoming familiar with only one stock gives the trader an advantage over people trading more than 30 different stocks, chasing ticker symbols of companies they have never even heard of before.
It is a good idea for a rookie trader to master trading one single stock before creating a large watch list and following stocks with which he is unfamiliar. New traders need all the advantages they can get. I recommend trading a stock that mimics the futures, whether it is the S&P or Nasdaq Emini. As of this writing, Sun Microsystems (ticker symbol SUNW) is a stock that mimics the S&P E-Mini futures almost exactly tick by tick.
Once the trader masters trading one stock, it is time to move on to the next level: creating a watch list of approximately 30 stocks. You can also create a smaller list of say five stocks; then add five more stocks every month until you are comfortable with a list of approximately thirty. If adding five stocks a month is too many new symbols for you to become familiar with, add only as many to your list as you feel comfortable following.
Assuming we now have a list of 30 stocks, sort them with the trading software to place the strongest stocks at the top of the list with the weakest stocks at the bottom. The watch list should have a diversity of stocks from at least three different sectors. The great thing about sorting stocks from the strongest to weakest is that you can immediately look at your watch list and see which sectors are the strongest and which stocks in that sector have relative strength. You can also do the same for the weakest group, finding which stock in the weakest sector has relative weakness.
Say we have five semiconductor stocks at the top of our watch list and the bottom four stocks on the list are from the software sector. If the market suddenly starts to rally, we now know that buying stocks in the software sector is not a good idea because they are showing relative weakness. We know that the semiconductors on our watch list are showing relative strength, so we look to go long the strongest stock on our list. If the stock on the very top of the list had a very large gap at the open, you would consider going long the second or third stock from the top of the list in the same sector, because extremely large gaps add risk. You can also scan the charts of stocks from this sector that appear somewhere in the middle of the list, looking for familiar chart patterns you are comfortable trading. The opposite is true if the market is selling off.
There is a sector of stocks that each trader feels most comfortable trading; for me it is the software sector. To identify which sector is best for you, review all the trades you made in the last two months and note the sector that had the greatest number of winning trades. Then identify which single stock in this sector made you the most profits. Analyze your best winning stock to see what average price and volume it traded during the past two months. Now you know which sector you are more likely to make the most money in, the stock price at which you have the best odds trading, and the average volume of a stock you feel the most confident trading. You know what you need to continue doing right.
The next step is to identify what you are doing wrong and to correct it immediately. Look at your past two months of trading history and pinpoint your biggest losing sector. Delve deeper and select the stock from this sector that caused you the most pain (financial loss). If in the future you find yourself about to get into a position in this particular stock, say to yourself, “I do not understand the movements of this stock, I do not wish to lose money, and I will not get into this position.” Understand that history repeats itself and you should try not to repeat painful mistakes. You should not trade the stock that causes the greatest pain because of your emotions; you will want revenge. I am not saying you should never trade this stock again. I just want you to realize where you are loosing most of your capital.
There has to be a reason why you consistently lose trading a certain stock. Until you know the reason, stay away. The best market makers usually control our demon stocks. They have thick wallets and can randomly manipulate the stock’s price compared to the futures for no reason whatsoever. How can you make profits from a stock that does not follow chart pattern setups?
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Trading High Priced Stocks
Many people have a hard time sticking to their stop-loss on stocks priced above the $60 to $70 range. These stocks can suddenly move 25 cents or more in a few seconds, triggering and speeding beyond the stop-loss. Because the stock’s price can jump so quickly, the trader thinks that he will take his stop-loss when the price moves back a bit, which never happens. Suddenly, a couple of minutes later, the position has broken past his stop-loss by more than 50 cents, and the trader feels that he cannot take a loss that large. So he waits, and then he is down more than 1 point and he takes the stop-loss at the maximum level of pain. (Of course, after the trader takes the stop at maximum pain, it begins to trade in his desired direction!)
This same trader will stick to his rules more easily on a slower-moving $20 stock. Lower-priced stocks tend not to move so quickly that a trader decides he cannot take a loss that large. A heavy-volume $20 stock moves more slowly and allows the trader to get out of his position closer to the actual stop-loss price.
Stocks that have different average daily volumes also tend to act in their own way. Let’s say we have two stocks, both trading at $30 a share. The first stock has a tight spread and an average daily volume of over 8 million shares a day. The other stock trades an average of 500,000 shares a day with a much wider spread. The movement of these two stocks is completely different. Your ability to keep a tight stop-loss or to exit easily a winning trade greatly varies.
This does not mean that you should only trade liquid stocks that trade more than 8 million shares a day. It means that everyone has a unique personality, and some personalities can trade illiquid stocks better than liquid stocks. But traders without experience cannot exit losing or winning trades in an illiquid stock accurately. New traders should wait to trade illiquid stocks until they have experience with order routing and order fills.
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STOP LOSS
This is the point where you admit you were wrong. No one can pick winning stocks 100% of the time. Accept this fact. You can only play the odds.
Let’s say we buy a stock at $20 with the plan that it will go up to $24. Now we have to decide what to do if the stock does not go up, but suddenly starts to fall. Let’s decide that if the stock moves below $19, we will accept that we were wrong about the direction of the stock, sell the position immediately, and take a small loss. By taking small losses, we preserve our trading capital, which allows us to trade again tomorrow.
Before we even get into a position, we have to measure our risk-reward ratio. In the above example, if we were correct about our stock pick, we would have made 4 points. If we were wrong in our stock pick, we would take a loss of 1 point. That is a risk-reward of 4:1. Let’s say we were only correct about our stock picks 50% of the time and we make four trades. Two were winners (2 x 4 points) equaling 8 points. Two trades were losers (2 x 1) totaling 2 points. We now have a gain of 6 points by only selecting winning stocks 50% of the time. Assuming we were the worst stock pickers in the world and were only correct 25% of the time, we would still have a gain of 1 point.
It is important to keep your risk-reward ratio 4:1. If you can only find a risk-reward ratio of 2:1, leave it alone, sit on your hands, and do nothing. If the market is behaving in a way that you can only find risk-reward ratios of 2:1, you probably have no idea as to which way the market is going to move. The market spends most of its time moving sideways. I have seen many traders lose most of their capital by making themselves trade when they should have stayed on the sidelines.
I still remember the first time I stared at the screen the entire trading day from 9:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. without making a single trade. I was thinking to myself, “I know the market is normally irrational, but today I have absolutely no idea what is going on.” I made some paper trades in my head, and I was glad I had left it that. All the trades I made in my head were losers. Even though I did not make any trades that day, I felt like a winner. It was a great feeling to know when to sit it out. I was right to stay on the sidelines. You have to have the discipline to stay on the sidelines when you do not feel comfortable. Getting into low risk-reward positions because you want to be in the game is wrong. It shows a lack of discipline and the punishment is losing capital.
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Too Much Time Trading
Now that you know it is sometimes wise to stay on the sidelines, you should only trade high risk-reward ratio plays, and you must always use a stop-loss, let’s move on our next topic: spending too much time staring at Level 2 screens, examining charts, and trading.
Are you constantly trading after the closing bell and pre-market? Some traders dedicate all of their time to reading fundamentals, checking the news, and looking at charts. Every trader needs to do these things, but you must allocate a small portion of your time to these matters, not all your time.
You should try to avoid listening to the media, especially the analysts who lie, and you must try to ignore stock tips from your local banker. All of these different opinions can cloud your better judgment. Many traders become frustrated because they work so hard and still lose money. Some work 18 hours a day or more, trading during lunch, watching CNBC while eating dinner, asking everybody for stock tips, etc. This is a common mistake by beginning traders. They do not focus their time on doing the things that will help improve their trading.
Traders should be printing out charts of the stocks they traded that day, labeling the entry and exit points, and documenting their reasons for entry and exit. By doing this, a trader can find out what his common mistakes are as well as his strong points. By reviewing these notes on the chart, the trader can clearly see if he is getting a bad entry, getting shaken out of position, taking a stop-loss of 2 cents only to see that he was actually right after-the-fact, or, more commonly, taking profits way to early.
Traders must discover their worst habits and spend their time correcting them. They should also calculate their commissions at the end of every day, including SEC fees, pass-through fees, and any other charges. This gives the trader time to reflect on the cost he is actually incurring when he gets into low risk-reward ratio positions and make him think twice about doing it again. Every trader should devote more time to reviewing and correcting errors instead of spending their time actually trading.
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The Weather Man And The Stock Market Speculator
A weatherman tries to predict if it is going to be sunny, cloudy, or snowing based on humidity levels, atmospheric pressures, and satellite images. Unfortunately, the weatherman is not always 100% correct. He can only make predictions based on the information he is given and his experience in analyzing this data. Can you imagine making a five-day weather prediction without any satellite images, atmospheric pressure readings, or humidity levels? Do you agree that a weatherman without any data to analyze or training in how to analyze data would not have a job for very long? Sure, perhaps he might make a few lucky guesses and forecast the weather correctly for the first three days. But his lucky guesses would definitely run out, as well as his employment.
You should view speculating in the stock market as similar to predicting the weather. To make accurate price-move predictions, you cannot make decisions based on a single piece of data. In the case of the weather, images from a satellite will show you where a storm is currently and where the storm was in the past. The satellite images cannot tell you where the storm is heading. To predict its movement, you need more information. Atmospheric pressure, the jet stream, and humidity levels will affect the storm’s future path.
Making decisions by only analyzing a price chart (satellite image) is similar. It alone will not allow you to make accurate predictions. You need more data such as volume levels (atmospheric pressure), fundamentals (jet stream), and market internal futures, tick and trin (humidity levels). But even if you have all this data, you still need to make accurate decisions based on this information. How can you do this?
First, you have to study what all this information means. How could you possibly make an informed decision using the futures, the tick and the trin, if you do not know what they are? The weatherman went to school and received the appropriate education and so must a market speculator. Yet while a weatherman fresh out of school can make accurate predictions, what makes a superior weatherman is experience. After being a weatherman for a few years, he is used to analyzing data that does not always follow the rules he learned in school. Because of his experience, a master weatherman knows when to break the rules, and he therefore makes decisions that are more accurate. An educated market speculator can also make accurate decisions, but to become elite and stand out from all the other players, he has to have experience.
So where does The Stock Teacher Method™ fit into all of this? We provide you with the education you need to analyze the data, and we pass on to you all of our experience so that you can become a master trader and know when to break the rules. Generally, our course provides you with over four years of market education and experience in a detailed, step-by-step format.
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