I thought I would start a new thread on Market Neutral Swing Trading... the thread I started last year turned out pretty interesting and I was wondering how any others were getting on with it in their various ways. For myself I am only really interested in the swing trading element of the strategy rather than intra-day.. anyone who is interested but who did not see the prevous thread might like to read it here http://www.trade2win.com/boards/showthread.php?t=9183&page=1&pp=10 in which there are many fascinating posts about it and differing approaches to the overall strategy.
I have been attempting to make it work for me for over a year now and cannot claim to have really figured it out yet.. not made the breakthrough that I wanted.. but neither consider it a failure.. and for any struggling or aspiring traders I would at least say that I believe if you love trading... the act of trading and the fun of it... for me the foremost priority is to find a way to survive first, succeed second. That at least I HAVE achieved thus far... and with over three years of survival behind me I still hope to eventually make that elusive breakthrough into a worthwhile profit ultimately. Of course when I started I thought I would be rolling in filthy loot by now! But there you go... lol
Anyway, I was thinking that if there are still a few swing trading market neutral enthusiasts out there I might get a paltalk room open where we could chat about it and share thoughts in real time.. even maybe just once a week like in the evening during the last couple of hours of trading on a friday.. I tend to do my trading work now every night after 6pm uk time... as I now generally enter and close individual stocks or pairs near eod... usually I try to watch the open in case of erratic behaviour just in case.
I will post a link to this at the end of the other thread just so any people subscribed to that will see this new thread..
Niall
I have been attempting to make it work for me for over a year now and cannot claim to have really figured it out yet.. not made the breakthrough that I wanted.. but neither consider it a failure.. and for any struggling or aspiring traders I would at least say that I believe if you love trading... the act of trading and the fun of it... for me the foremost priority is to find a way to survive first, succeed second. That at least I HAVE achieved thus far... and with over three years of survival behind me I still hope to eventually make that elusive breakthrough into a worthwhile profit ultimately. Of course when I started I thought I would be rolling in filthy loot by now! But there you go... lol
Anyway, I was thinking that if there are still a few swing trading market neutral enthusiasts out there I might get a paltalk room open where we could chat about it and share thoughts in real time.. even maybe just once a week like in the evening during the last couple of hours of trading on a friday.. I tend to do my trading work now every night after 6pm uk time... as I now generally enter and close individual stocks or pairs near eod... usually I try to watch the open in case of erratic behaviour just in case.
I will post a link to this at the end of the other thread just so any people subscribed to that will see this new thread..
Niall
