After March09, I do not remember any 跳水 in the last half hour, even in some days market drop 2-3% but that kind of days were gap down a lot before the last half hour.
After March09, I do not remember any 跳水 in the last half hour, even in some days market drop 2-3% but that kind of days were gap down a lot befor ...
dara 发表于 2009-7-22 16:24
====yes, that's what I am talking about. 当我重新再看到那种跳水出现后,我会觉得熊is back.
249# 多吉 What's the benefit of using QLD to hedge instead of reducing your QID? Thanks!
grandtiger 发表于 2009-7-22 03:03 PM
I prefer “hedging” to a “stop loss” although they are technically the same, but it
all comes down to trading disciplines and a “mental” part of the trading.
Believe it or not, 85% of the trading is mental, and I tend to be discouraged when
my stops are taken out and my losses are already “realized” and, as a result, I
become very hesitant even when I see a perfect entry point afterward, like
yesterday's break-out to the upside.
On the other hand, with hedging, I will be still managing my positions, looking for
a good entry/exit point, and possibly adding on to my hedging position to reverse
its course from short to long or long to short, and eventually making money on
the other side of the trade.
However for a ST with both QLD/QID, one would have to take time decay into
consideration when it comes to the time to weight the hedging pair...
I prefer “hedging” to a “stop loss” although they are technically the same, but it
all comes down to trading disciplines and a “mental” part of the trading.
Believe it or not, 85% of ...
多吉 发表于 2009-7-22 16:43
多吉,
Thanks a lot for the answer. Yeah, this is a great idea. Losing trades hurt us psychologically, therefore hedging is a superior approach. However, due to the Volatility Decay of leverage ETFs, it maybe better to short both QLD and QID instead of long both of them.
I lost a lot of money in 2X/3X ETFs not knowing what I was getting into, only felt that they don't track the indexes well. As more discussions appear on the internet, I finally realized my big mistake. I am long quite a bit of QID as well, but it has been a painful 11 days. We are in this together, hope we will see the pull back we anticipated.
One more question, what would be your target for QID? Shall we scale out or all out?