I agree, but it helps

    NKE stop progression

    Posted by rojoch on 24th of May 2018 at 02:08 pm

    I agree, but it helps to see what has been working for others as you develop your own trading plan.

    Since we were already on the topic of Matt's own trading style, I figured this was a reasonable scenario to ask him how he handles it himself.

    .../john in Victoria, BC

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    Posted by matt on 24th of May 2018 at 04:02 pm

    rojoch- of course it's very reasonable for you to ask since I'm the one who started this.  I've been discussing this because I will probably offer a service like this down the road.

    Steve is right obviously, everyone needs to define their trading plan, position sizing, and their risk tolerance in terms of what they are comfortable with.  

    However as far as risk tolerance goes that all still applies because while you might use my stops and targets, you would already be adjusting your position size based on your risk tolerance.  Someone who had greater tolerance would buy more shares while someone who had a very littler tolerance would buy fewer shares, but the SAME stops would apply to both people.

    Right now, excluding the SPY and AAPL systems, the website is a resource, we give great analysis and trade ideas, and leave it up to members to take that information and use it on their own, and actually pull the trigger.  

    While that's great, it also limits the number of customers we have. There's at least 10 - 100 times more potential customers out there who want to learn, but they also have trouble pulling the trigger, and want the trade given to them. Do  your own thing is not actionable advice for these customers who want more hand holding in trades like “buy stock ABC here, place a stop here, take some profits here, a trailing stop here.

    Sort of like this cartoon graphic.  Someone sent me that a while back, said I want to learn but I also want to be spoon fed.

    We do this now with the AAPL and SPY systems, we tell you when it's buying and selling, so really it would just be more expanded to the watchlist.  It's a lot more work of course so I'd have to figure out a way to automate some of the work or cut back on other stuff.  

    Right now I see BPT as being more for engineers: the top % of people out there who just need the ideas and analysis and can apply the information on their own. But that's also a limited pool of subscribers, we could probably grow BPT far beyond current levels by providing more services to non-engineers and folks who’d like to be just be told.

    Although I am an experienced

    Posted by tradeit007 on 25th of May 2018 at 07:11 am

    Although I am an experienced trader, I would not mind a bit of hand holding from a trader like you that I trust. One comment that I read suggested the hand holding would limit learning by those having their hands held. I don't think so. Having  good trader sharing knowledge of how they think and trade can always be a learning experience IMO. I wish I had that opportunity earlier!

    If I may add . . . what I try to discern from your verbal cues on recommended trades is which trades you favor from that day's list. I can pick up cues from your verbal descriptions and that helps me prioritize your recommended trades. I find value in these details. So, my idea of valuable "hand holding" would be almost a rank-ordering of the top 3 recommended trades, perhaps, more so than where and when to pull the trigger on each trade. Just sayin'.

    Thank you for your interest and efforts in always adding to the value of your service! We all benefit from you sharing your knowledge.

    @tradeit007 I just want to clarify

    Posted by larken on 25th of May 2018 at 08:43 am

    @tradeit007

    I just want to clarify what I wanted to convey earlier as I think you missed my point or I wasn't clear enough. I was referring to the aspects of an added service  by BPT whereby they would post all entries/SL and exits/profit targets in a trade setup. It's fine if they choose to do so, of course, but  an aspect to this new method would be that members who would solely follow that wouldn't actually be trading or learning how to become independent traders since they would basically become order placers instead of traders. We are already being hand held today and getting tons of feedback and examples on a daily basis, which I love and why I am a member here. The education we're receiving here today is fantastic. But personally, I don't think I would have learnt as much if I would have been given every little single detail of what to do in a trade on a silver platter. I've learnt a lot by fiddling around with SL, Trailing SL, EMA SL's, profit targets etc etc  thus making me a better trader.  Just wanted to bring up that angle to the conversation.

    Happy trading!

    If I can give my

    Posted by larken on 25th of May 2018 at 01:20 am

    If I can give my 2 cents on this topic, after thinking about it, whether to offer a more extended service to your BPT clients in which they get very specific entries/exits, basically hand holding them through the trade process. I do understand why people would like such a service, once upon a time I would have liked it myself. But there are draw backs to this as I see it.

    1) You will learn a lot less basically. The BPT team has expressed many times that part of their mission is to help us become better traders and with such a service it probably wouldn't encourage many members to really study charts and figure, by trial and error, things out by themselves and essentially becoming great traders. The hard work is already done by Matt and Steve by finding trade ideas, so entry and exit is not very complicated. There are already quite a lot of tutorials and examples made by Matt/Steve where they talk about this. 

    2) If the service changes on BPT and you have an influx of new customers who want the easy set up and hand holding, there is a risk that the quality of the trading community (forum) drops and becomes a very noisy forum with too much drama and/or arguments. I'm sure I'm not alone here to say that I really like the tight knit community and clean forums. Imagine how the community forum would look like with 10 - 100 times more potential customers like Matt mentioned.

    What I would do is to focus more on the Education section on the website by creating studies regarding Entry / SL / Profit Taking and suggest that all members study these. I'm sure you guys have already though of all this; just wanted to share my 2 cents.

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