Image : http://www.flickr.com
There are many people who make a living trading. They use several different strategies, trading in all markets, but all somehow manage to do so. Why can not join them? Why can not you be one of the financially free?
You Can.
You just need to learn how.
To make an exchange of life you have to earn stable income from trading, which means that you must have some sort of system or rules that are followed in order to be regular profits. Once you have a system,do not want to stay all day behind a computer following the trading rules, which is like trading in your job for another job. Instead, you want to automate the trading system so you can earn your income stable and still have the freedom to do what you do. This does not mean that you can leave your system completely. You will have to check on it from time to time. Depending on the system which may be one of 15 hours per week depending on how often your business' system, whichTitles that are involved, and how much risk you are willing to take.
So how do you do?
The first step is to find a trading system. This is not really as difficult as it seems. You can find strategies and trading systems from around the web, in academic journals and trade publications. In principle, it is a good idea to keep a small note book in which ideas and systems that pops up. Once you have a list of ten or more strategies are to be removedbased on certain criteria.
The first criterion is the amount of capital you want to invest. If you are willing to invest only $ 5,000 to get started you will eliminate many trading strategies. Usually, $ 10,000 is a good figure to start and make sure it is losing money, meaning that even if you lose everything (hopefully it will not come to that) will not be hungry or anything.
The second criterion is how you want to implement the trading system. If you want to automateusing existing trading platforms such as TradeStation, will be linked to their system and you will have to open an account with them and may be charged fees platform that can affect profits. The cheapest way, more flexible and independent in order to build an automated trading system is to program yourself or pay someone to program for you and then connect to an Application Programming Interface (API) provided by a broker. This will allow you to change at any time in the brokerfuture that will allow you to do just about anything that is possible for a computer to make sure that it will not be hampered by the problems and the lack-of-flexibility than any other system.
Finally, the last criteria is how long you want to spend monitoring. There are strategies that you send a text message or e-mail every ten minutes that you need to answer and there are other strategies you need to check each month, everything depends on your trading style, as is oftenwishes to withdraw from the system, and how much time you can devote to monitoring and management system. In principle, each part-time trading begins, so you want to have a strategy that will have 40 hours per week to maintain.
Once you have a list of strategies that you want to achieve is to test them. Again, you have a couple of options. The most common platform to test on Microsoft Excel. You can do pretty much anything you want with it, if you learn abit 'Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to write some macros to be held Excel capabilities to a whole new level. There are also other third-party software that are designed for back-testing strategies, although once again the best way is to program it yourself as it will allow you to remain flexible.
Build your own automated trading system may seem daunting at first, but if you take one step at a time before you know it, you will make moneyduring sleep. Good luck.
No comments:
Post a Comment