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A second money-management possibility is to select a limited number of stocks for trading. I prefer this method because it is much easier to follow-up a limited number of stocks with technical analysis techniques.
With a fixed, limited number of stocks, it is possible to keep individual charts with specific notes over longer periods of time.
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We can start with a fixed capital per stock. Assuming a starting capital of $25,000, we could divide this money over 20 stocks, each of which gets a starting capital of $1,250.
Each of the 20 stocks is traded individually, with no profit or loss sharing. All profits or losses are attributed to the individual stock. This means, of course, that each stock must be followed individually because it can only use its own private capital.
Applying this kind of money management is effective and has a number of advantages:
Poorly performing stocks will be recognized more quickly, which means that they can be replaced much faster. In the worst case scenario, the stocks will not be in the race anymore because there is no more capital left.
Spreading the capital among a sufficient number of stocks will improve the end result because some stocks will be doing much better than the average.
To find the results using a portfolio with or without profit and loss sharing, we can run a test with the same stocks over the same period and with the same buying, selling, and cost of trade conditions.
In figure 10.1, we are using a list of stocks with daily prices over a six-year period dating back from the end of September 2008.
I used one of my automatic expert buy-and-sell test systems. Although the system used is not necessarily important, it is important to use the same system test under the same circumstances and during the same time period. In this example, we only took long positions. For the first test, we have a starting capital of $25,000 to be divided between the 20 stocks. But there is profit and loss sharing, so each stock will get 5% of the portfolio value at any moment in time.
Figure 10.1: List of stocks used for testing.
There was an average of 25 trades per stock in the total time period.
The total profit is $128,872.
Figure 10.2: Test result with profit and loss sharing.
ATTENTION The %Gain indication in the result table (figure 10.2) is the profit percentage compared to the total capital!
There were, on average, 25 trades per stock during the entire period.
The total profit is $265,356.
Figure 10.3: Test result without profit and loss sharing.
ATTENTION: The %Gain indication in the results table (figure 10.3) is in relation to the starting capital of each stock ($1,250).
Trading a selected, limited number of stocks and not sharing profits or losses is the better choice!
For trading stocks I strongly advice to divide your capital between a limited fixed number of stocks, not sharing any individual loss or profit between these stocks. So, you will have to do an individual follow-up of profit and loss for each stock.
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