Hey, I'm Ryan Mallory, and this is my swing trading, the stock market podcast.

I'm here to teach you how to trade in a complex, ever-changing world of finance.

Learn what it means to trade profitably and consistently, managing risk, avoiding the pitfalls of trading,

and most importantly, to let those winners run wild. You can succeed at the stock market,

and I'm ready to show you how. Hey, everybody, this is Ryan Mallory, who is Swing trading the stock

market, and today I'm going to talk about a few positions in your portfolio versus having

a lot of positions in your

portfolio. And what I'm trying to say here is not, okay, if it's a bare market, you're not

going to have as many long positions or if it's a bull market, you're not going to have as

many short positions. No, I'm just basically saying, how much are you willing to put on each

position in terms of percentage of overall capital? So for some, if you're only willing to trade five positions at a time and you're fully

invested in the market, you're only going to have like 20% on each trading.

I shouldn't say you're only going to have because 20% on a single trade is a lot.

But if you're trading like, let's say, 20 or 25 positions, let's just make it an even round number,

20 positions in your account at one time, then you're going to be putting 5% on each trade.

So the difference between 5% on a trade versus 20% on a trade, it's a big difference.

So what I'm doing here is not trying to say whether having a lot of positions is the better

way for you to go in your trading or having a few

positions is a better way to make profits in the stock market. I'm not trying to say either one of

those things. What I'm trying to do in this podcast here is highlight the differences between trading

with a lot of positions versus trading with just a few positions. For instance, when it comes to

making profits in the stock market,

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