Smoothness, Consistency and Growing Your Money Over Time: The Spring 2011 Swing Trading College
Talking about a portfolio constructed entirely with the same quantified, swing trading strategies that will be taught as part of the TradingMarkets Spring 2011 Swing Trading College, Larry Connors, CEO and founder of TradingMarkets.com recently pointed out two factors critical in building the kind of investment portfolios that will allow traders to objectively and professional grow their money over time.
“What you have here is a pretty smooth looking portfolio,” he began. “Again, I can’t promise what the future is going to look like, but at least what you’re looking at in simulated test results over the past decade (2001 – 2009), a pretty crazy decade, you see consistent returns all the way through.
“There are two main things that stand out to me. Number one: the CAGR (compound annual growth rate) has been good all the way through. And number two, almost immediately, when I look at this, my eyes are like a heat-seeking missile looking for the red. I’m looking to see drawdowns there.
“I tend to be conservative by nature. I don’t want to see big drawdowns. I’m not looking to see large drawdowns followed by large gains the following months. I could create those kind of portfolios all day long on a look-back basis – where you have massive drawdowns and then massive gains. Psychologically, that’s not the best way to trade or to build a portfolio to grow your money over time. You want smoothness and consistency.”
Does “smooth and consistent” describe your trading and investing in 2010? If not, if you are still looking for something that could set you apart from the traders making and losing the same money month in and month out, then consider setting aside a few minutes on Monday to join Larry Connors at his upcoming, free, live, all-questions-answered webinar on the TradingMarkets 2011 Spring Swing Trading College.
Stocks and exchange-traded funds. E-minis and options. Long and short. The TradingMarkets 2011 Spring Swing Trading College will help traders learn how to build objective, data-driven investment portfolios using short-term quantified swing trading strategies like those in the portfolio above. High reward/risk ratios. Benchmark-beating test results year in and year out. And, of course, minimal drawdowns.
If this professional approach to managing and growing your money sounds as intriguing to you as it has to the hundreds of successful traders who have taken the TradingMarkets Swing Trading College course over the past six years, then click the link below to save your spot at Larry’s upcoming live online presentation on the TradingMarkets Spring 2011 Swing Trading College.
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David Penn is Editor in Chief of TradingMarkets.com