Monday, March 14, 2016

Madaz's 2016 Adjusted Trading Rules in These Current Market Conditions

Madaz's 2016 Adjusted Trading Rules in These Current Market Conditions


I can only speak for myself, but I wholeheartedly believe that these current market conditions (from about mid-February of this year to the present) have been one of the most difficult I've experienced.   There are many reasons but to sum things up it's because the broad markets are still indecisive due to several uncertainties with macros.  With the markets not having a clear obvious trend, traders will often be confused resulting in more crowded charts and some people will be cautious about playing the market.  As a result, we've seen volume and liquidity take a hit.  Even on days that look promising and volume is great at the open, it diminishes rather quickly (see my blog post prior to this one). 

As a momentum scalper, I need volatility and liquidity in order to trade effectively.  I don't like trade stocks that float on air or grind because I feel that they are too hard to read and too risky to hold since you are exposing yourself to lots of risk to things like random news, random dumps due to a rug pull, or a random squeeze.  These types of things vastly minimize the edge a retail trader has. 

A problem I've had recently was failing to completely adapt to these current market conditions.  As a result I would have too much size when the volume dramatically drops off in a relatively short period of time.  This results in adverse effects such as slippage and also ECN fees that get incurred if I have no choice but to take liquidity to exit a position.  So in order to prevent myself from getting into this tough predicament, I've developed some simple (and more conservative given these market conditions) rules that basically allow me to figure out proper and optimal sizing to trade with at each given moment so that way if I have to stop out, I won't have to deal with issues such as slippage.
  • Large size (I.e. 10K shares on a <$10 stock) only allowed at the open.  This is when the volume is the highest of the day so probably this is the only reasonable time you should consider going in big, since in the event that you're wrong, you can get out with a fill at the price you want easily.
  • Reduce size to 1/4 (i.e. 2500 shares on a <$10 stock) by 9:45AM.  Having studied various charts from recent trading activity, I've noticed that a lot of stocks experience volume drop offs of about 75% within 15 minutes.  Logically this means you should reduce your size to 1/4 of what you would have done at the open in order to ensure you can get in and out easily.
  • Reduce size to 1/10 (i.e. 1000 shares on a <$10 stock) by 10:00AM. Same reason as above, by 10:00AM, I notice that many stocks that are in play at the open drop off in volume by 90% so that means you should reduce your size to 1/10 of what you would have done at the open.
  • Reduce size to 1/20 (i.e. 500 shares on a <$10 stock) if needed, for the rest of the day should there be very low volume, 1/10 max.  If the volume drops off even more, then reducing size to protect any gains from the morning is a must.  Of course, if there is no price action, you should not trade at all, but sizing too big late in the day and losing your morning profits because of that is very frustrating and this serves to prevent that from happening.

So of course there are going to be exceptions but these are just general guidelines that help me prevent those really frustrating losses where you're stuck holding too many shares of an illiquid stock and you have to take liquidity to get out and have to take a much larger loss than expected due to slippage.  The tradeoff of course is that I may miss out on some trades, but the bigger idea here is to practice discipline as I feel the losses that I will prevent  from not going in too big at the wrong moments will outweigh any potential profits from missed plays during irregular hours. 

Believe me, if you've been following me for awhile, you know that I love to go in with large size and nail that big $5,000 win in 30 seconds, so it's painful for me to have to take this much more conservative approach, but like I always say, "you must adapt to the market as the market will not adapt to you".

Other rules I've been following include:
  •          Not trading at all between 11AM-2PM, and many times not even trading beyond 10AM.  The volume drop-off during this period results in no edge for the retail trader and algos start to control the action.  I've already beaten the dead horse regarding algos and manipulation on my blog on my youtube channel so I won't go over it again.
  •         Any random news play that shows up with massive volume as tempting as it is to go big because of the volaitility, stick to the sizing rules and play small anyways.  Lost big on WR last week with that FOMO mindset even though I was nailing several of these news plays in a row prior to that, which goes to show you that all it takes is one bad miscue and you will pay the price, figuratively and literally.  Play small and manage your risk and don't undo the work you did in the morning, or if you're already red, don't amplify your losses.
I thought this might be too specific to me to help others (I don't think everyone will necessarily take 10K share positions at the open) but some people have asked me about it so that's why I did the write-up.  I hope it helps people to a certain extent or at the very least gives people a better understand of why I do things the way I do.

Cheers,

Madaz


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  1. Madaz,

    Nice rules and follow through. I am seeing the same patterns you are however I am always 1/10 or less your volume so that is not a problem for me. For me it is the indecisiveness and range that eat up any profits I can squeak out on a small account. I need a 3 to 1 risk reward ration and to get the profit I need to beat commissions and fees I need to size in too large. This usually scares me out of a trade as the 3 to 1 breaks down. I wish my commissions were as low as yours are but I guess if I can keep at this and grind out my small account with smart rules like yours then I can gradually work my way up.

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts in this Blog, I hope you keep it up. Love the twitter posts as well. I'm on Twitter as: flash25296

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  3. This is excellent. One of my issues lately has been making money in the mornings and then piddling it way after the morning session and basically "max lossing" and calling it quits. If I'm dumb enough to trade after the open I definitely need to be dropping my position sizes significantly

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    1. Exactly. Typically as volume drops off so does a trader's edge since MMs/algos thrive when the volume is low as their manipulative tactics work more effectively, so to manage our risk properly we have to size down as our edge decreases and then stop trading altogether if the edge gets so low it's not even worth trading at all. Failure to do so, will most certainly result in losses especially of a large enough sample size.

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