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20 Years of Successful Trades
By Steven Sarnoff
February 22, 2011
“We have 2 classes of forecasters: Those who don’t know... and those who don’t know they don’t know.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
The year of the American Contagion; the year of chickens coming home to roost; the year of the bailout — 2008 — is heading into history as a momentous time of tumultuous market moves in stocks, commodities, currencies, and interest rates.
This year too witnessed the onset of a worldwide economic panic with an assault on the global economic system and our form of democracy. The forces of deflation and inflation continue to slug it out in a titanic struggle for dominance. We’ve managed to navigate the stormy seas with a steady hand on the tiller. One of the keys to our success has been keeping a sense of perspective.
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As my premium research service, Options Hotline, is set to begin its twentieth year of advocating sensible speculation, I’d like to share some seemingly impracticable musings you may find useful.
In 2008, volatility skyrocketed beyond belief. Most market participants, even professionals, were caught by surprise. Big money was made and lost, both up and down, with astonishing speed. It’s long been known speculators make their fortunes from changing prices, and leverage is an important tool for speculators. Leverage involves using OPM (Other People’s Money) to try to make more money than you can with your own funds. Using OPM may augment your reward when you are right; but it may also greatly accelerate the risk of additional loss when you are wrong. That’s the aspect of leverage that so many forgot during the heady times of money trees growing to the sky.
Even some of the market’s smartest participants are done in by blind arrogance. The famous story of the 1990s rise and fall of hedge fund giant Long-Term Capital Management, excellently chronicled in Roger Lowenstein’s When Genius Failed, comes to mind. That cautionary tale is particularly apropos to today’s financial crisis. Successful trades blinded the firm’s brilliant partners to the possibility of failure, ultimately sealed their fateful demise, and threatened the stability of the entire financial system.
In this business, I believe you are better served by checking your ego at the door. Having a complete game plan includes preparing for the worst in every trade. Remember to always speculate based on what you can lose, not what you can gain. Applying sound money management principles (such as never adding to a losing trade) and utilizing the tools of Superleverage* allow you to stay in the game and avoid being knocked out through inevitable times of losing trades.
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Always anticipate the possibility of loss, and are prepared to withstand it, no matter the severity, because you positioned with always known and completely limited risk vehicles; never be surprised when the market moves against you.
Over the years, I’ve compiled an impressive record of forecasting the twists and turns of market price. The publisher is happy to provide you with every trade I’ve ever recommended, since taking the helm in October of 1999.
As a result, people invariably ask me what I think the market is going to do…
I always say that if I knew what the market was going to do, I wouldn’t have to work. The key to success in the markets comes from using technical levels of support and resistance to set your exit strategy for each trade. Make sure that you, or your broker, monitor your positions closely. The market doesn’t ring a bell when it’s time to get out. Have your plan in place ahead of time and you can smile, laugh, take your profit a step ahead of the crowd, and enjoy your accomplishment with a sense of wonder.
No matter your success, always be surprised when the market goes your way.
So, like me, never be surprised and always be surprised. Don’t forget that forecasters, even those with good reasoning and strong opinions, are practitioners of uncertainty. That view will serve you well.
I hope you found the abovementioned thoughts helpful and wish you all good fortune as you vie for fun and profit in the year ahead.
Sincerely,
Steven Sarnoff
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