TheRiskBlog

For most investors and traders risk is something they need to accept in order to come up with decent returns. Most of the times risk is measured in your account by how much you are losing when trading different positions. But sometimes risk shifts and it is not measured in the account any longer. When this occurs some positions can be made bigger without risking more but you need to know how to find out when this happens.

Very often a customer wants to learn all there is about the futures markets. He is not interested in the opportunity to make money in equities, all he wants is to trade futures. Now, there are a few things to know about these markets and how to deal with risk when trading futures. Here are things you really need to know…

Days like these are most interesting as far as risk management goes. Most of the times stock prices follow a chaotic pattern. Forecasting them is not easy if at all impossible but sometimes subtil changes in the surroundings make things forcastable. This happens when

Today I want to show you how I create overnight positions in trending stocks. Like in every investment you first have to choose an initial risk stop that doesn’t threaten your account, but unlike intraday trades it is important for overnight positions to stretch the trading range.

The Moneymanagement process is one the two main topics we deal with on this website. If you want to have success trading or investing there is just no way around the money management process. You need to do it and you need to know what you are doing. Since it is not always easy to make the right decisions involving your own money here is a primer on how to start your own money management process.