Position Sizing Exploring The Risks Of Having Too Many Swing Trades Open At Once
Swing Trading the Stock Market
Ryan Mallory
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🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Position sizing is so incredibly important when it comes to successful trading in the stock market. But at times, you can have too many positions at once and it leads to horrible consequences to your portfolio. Having the right approach is so key to insuring consistent and sustainable profit generation from the stock market.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn to trade stock successfully. |
| 0:09.5 | Learn to profit consistently. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Ryan Mallory, and on my weekly podcast, I'm going to teach you the ends and outs of a complex, ever-changing stock market. |
| 0:20.6 | You will learn to trade better, trade smarter, and profit bigger. |
| 0:26.3 | Now, let's go trade. |
| 0:29.7 | Hey, everybody. This is Ryan Mallory, doing another podcast with you here today. |
| 0:33.0 | And I want to speak to you guys about position sizing. |
| 0:36.8 | How do you approach position sizing in the stock market? |
| 0:39.7 | Should you be 100% long when you're bullish? |
| 0:43.7 | Should you be 100% short when you're bearish? |
| 0:46.4 | Should you be completely out of the market when you're not quite sure where the market's actually going? |
| 0:52.2 | Those are good questions. |
| 0:53.5 | I feel like that for most traders, it's one of those extremes to where I'm bullish. |
| 0:58.6 | So I need to be 100% or more, maybe even 200% going into margin to the long side. |
| 1:05.0 | And to the opposite end of the spectrum, you know, when you're bearish, yeah, let's go ahead and get super bearish and put all the chips |
| 1:13.5 | in the middle and make the bet that this market's going to support a huge sell-off. |
| 1:19.1 | Now, I don't subscribe to either of those beliefs. I think that you have to test the water. There's an old saying that says if you test the water |
| 1:29.9 | with both feet, you go straight to the bottom. I believe that you test the water a little bit. You don't |
| 1:34.1 | just go pile on positions. There's so many days, and I would say even most days, where there's so many |
| 1:40.4 | more trades that I would have liked to have made that I didn't make. And in hindsight, |
| 1:44.6 | I wish I would have made it. But when you're in the moment, you're not sure where that market's |
| 1:48.6 | always going to go with 100% certainty. So what I do is, is I like to build my positions |
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