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Pro traders who do not use SL, What about Black Swans?

Quoting warrensapp
{quote} That begs the question - what is the proper SL placement? Tight or wide? Large positions or small? Is there a correlation between the size of the position you take and the size of your SL? Does time frame matter - If so, what type of SL used for each time frame? Stop Loss vs. Trailing stop - is there a better proven strategy between the two and why? I'm trying to figure this stuff on my own out here - could use some tips.
Define tight/wide, large/small please.
In general the higher the time frame, the wider the stop(for me) and i risk the same amount of % no matter how big my stop is. Trailing can be useful but personally i dont use it.

By proper i meant proper positioning of stop and once again sorry for offtopic for the 208th time. Feel free to delete it if needed.
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Quoting Ray9
Alright..Let me ask a different question..Is your SL really respected when there is a major black swan?
Most likely, no.
There was a black swan this week. Here is a hedge fund that's blown up and I heard there were others too. Here is the main guy apologising to clients on YouTube

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Quoting EcoTrader
There was a black swan this week. Here is a hedge fund that's blown up and I heard there were others too. Here is the main guy apologising to clients on YouTube https://youtu.be/VNYNMM0hXXY
He seems genuine for the most part but he is overacting a bit.
Quoting EcoTrader
There was a black swan this week. Here is a hedge fund that's blown up and I heard there were others too. Here is the main guy apologising to clients on YouTube https://youtu.be/VNYNMM0hXXY
Eco, this was not really a black swan. Black swans are things that mom and pop investor hear about on the CBS evening news that adversely affect the 401k and IRA that they have for an extended period of time. There is a difference between a market shock and a black swan. This guy sold NAKED options on natty. I might have felt better for him if had done some butterflies or condors that he could not adjust out of without a loss, but then he would have hedged on a negatively correlated instrument to try and crash the plane softly.

NAKED options??? Who does that?

People who trade with OPM, that's who.
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Quoting jmn5611
{quote} Eco, this was not really a black swan. Black swans are things that mom and pop investor hear about on the CBS evening news that adversely affect the 401k and IRA that they have for an extended period of time. There is a difference between a market shock and a black swan. This guy sold NAKED options on natty. I might have felt better for him if had done some butterflies or condors that he could not adjust out of without a loss, but then he would have hedged on a negatively correlated instrument to try and crash the plane softly. NAKED options???...

I agree the instrument is questionable but black swans don't have to be scoped an an entire market or take place over a prolonged period of time, it can be on a single instrument and in a single session. Take Chf for example when the SNB removed the peg. In this instance the price of natural gas claimed 18% in a day which is the most it has moved in a single session in 14 years. That is a black swan event for anyone who isn't using a stop or stupid instruments like naked options.
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Quoting EcoTrader
{quote} I agree the instrument is questionable but black swans don't have to be scoped an an entire market or take place over a prolonged period of time, it can be on a single instrument and in a single session. Take Chf for example when the SNB removed the peg. In this instance the price of natural gas claimed 18% in a day which is the most it has moved in a single session in 14 years. That is a black swan event for anyone who isn't using a stop or stupid instruments like naked options. {image}
I understand. Issue of semantics I suppose. If you are a natty gas trader, that might hurt.
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They did it again !
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Quoting tylerbose
They did it again !

Lol, sure they did. Haha
when you can accurately predict the future, you leave nothing to chance.
Quoting zizoo
{quote} Lol, sure they did. Haha
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Quoting EcoTrader
This guy doesn't use a stop Listen to 079: The biggest financial experiment the world has ever seen—global macro investor, Raoul Pal by Chat With Traders #np on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/chat-with-tra...macro-investor
Hi there!

I searched macro as I'm looking for other macro traders to bounce ideas off. Noticed you mention Raoul Paul. I have learnt lots from him and was not actually aware of the interview you posted! listening to it as we speak. Do you have a macro strategy?

Cheers
Jack
Who was expecting this? Were you prepared?
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Quoting Scorp1on1
Who was expecting this? Were you prepared? {image}
Was that just on one particular brokers platform?
Quoting captaincobra
{quote} Was that just on one particular brokers platform?
The drop is visible on Pepperstone. Not sure about other brokers or the broker the previous poster is using.
Quoting captaincobra
{quote} Was that just on one particular brokers platform?
Yes. This is one 15 min candle@Pepperstone.. Thankfully. I don’t usually trade this pair... but I cannot believe that a broker has over 475 pips drop!!!
Quoting Scorp1on1
{quote} Yes. This is one 15 min candle@Pepperstone.. Thankfully. I don’t usually trade this pair... but I cannot believe that a broker has over 475 pips drop!!!

Wow, good to know. Clearly a scamming/dishonest broker...

I suspect they were anticipating a rise in the pair, and wanted to clear out the LONGs off their orderbook in advance of the move.
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Quoting Scorp1on1
Who was expecting this? Were you prepared? {image}
Contact your broker ASAP, My peperstone account does not show that at all.
Neither does anyone of the my other 3 brokers on live accounts. That must be an isolated incident.

If you got taken out contact them. If they don't resolve the issue then report them. ,
Please let us know what broker that is.
Taleb: People should not try to predict 'black swan' events
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nassi...180000366.html
It seems to me that most of your people should not give up stop-loss, because it is with its help that you can properly distribute your capital and adjust your work so that you can feel safe and in case of some unforeseen situation you can preserve the bulk of your capital. In my opinion, working without it can be quite exhausting and time-consuming, especially for a beginner who hasn't yet fully mastered the market and can't always navigate how to close this or that trade, how to include other assets in the trade, etc. So, yes, of course you can work without stop-loss, but I think that you can come to this only after you have been able to bring your statistics to the most stable indicators. But not before.
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