Learn How to Determine Trade Size | How to Do Futures
Dec 10, 2020
By Frank Kaberna
Overview
The keys to sizing up your trades can take your favorite strategies to the next level. Futures are more capital-efficient than stocks, but their complex design and large size have kept modern traders from adopting them for speculative and risk management needs. Learn how to size your trades in everything from stocks and bond to commodities and currencies using futures, shares, and options in our seminar on Trade Size, part of our How to Do Futures video series.
Contents
0:00 How to do Futures
2:40 Trade Size Overview
7:25 Three Types of Trade Size
10:30 Fixed Traders
11:50 Margin for the Smalls
12:40 Portfolio Allocation Example 1
15:18 Dynamic Traders
19:25 Portfolio Allocation Example 2
21:12 Hybrid Traders
22:30 Portfolio Allocation Example 3
23:35 Strategy Overview
24:50 Defining Short-Term Price Action
26:00 Defining Long-Term Price Action
27:15 Trading Short-Term Opinions
28:10 Trading Long-Term Opinions
29:05 Trade Size Traps to Avoid
32:05 Avoiding Trap 1: Overconfidence
33:30 Avoiding Trap 2: Holding Grudges
35:00 Avoiding Trap 3: Inconsistency
36:00 Using the Smalls
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