Sandbagging, Money Management for Trader

This post is for trend followers and how to manage their money for trades. There is another article on portfolio allocation in an earlier post.

This suggestion on how much money to place per trade is made in comparison to the easy investment plan or regular subscription plan offered by certain broker. In the easy investment plan, you put in a specified amount of money to buy stocks of a certain company on a designated date. In this new sandbagging technique, ZF suggest you have four tranches/slices or periods to invest more in stocks. Two or three tranches are also acceptable but one tranche is risky.

Once you decided on the number of tranche, you decide to place your money

• Equal tranche: first half on the first breakout, and the 2nd half on the next
• Pyramid tranche: lower the price, the bigger the volume or budget

ZF continues: 

The inverse pyramid is usually done when selling. The higher the prices go, the bigger the volume

Identifying Trader Personality and Portfolio

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 There are 2 types of investor,
1. Swing trader: big gain, heavy risks
2. Trend following: most followed strategy

 A robot from Alpha Cantauri shares information regarding his ideas on each trader techniques

For melee: unplanned attacks and are the result of one stock rising above the rest, forcing you to drop laggard stocks to focus on it in full force

For sleeper cells: dormant stock that may earn big time at the right time. Waiting game.

On portfolios, ZF shares

he has 3 portfolio and every 3 or 6 months profits are withdrawn and the port gets reset to 2.0 million. If within the 6 months no profits have been made, no additional funds will be added into the trading port

ZF talks about portfolio allocation like an RPG game based on the level of risk and rewards attained. Based on this story of portfolio, it seems ZF has 4 portfolios

Main portfolio which he calls Knight
Capital Preservation
75% divided into 3 stocks equally
25% cash
Yields the highest rewards with the least stress
But extreme discipline

Second Portfolio which he call Elven Archer

100% of portfolio is in cash or tsupita

strong mental capacity is required

Third portfolio which  he calls Swordman: balanced
Trend following 50%
Sleeper 25%
Cash 25%
This is the class of most traders

Fourth portfolio which he calls Mage
Time is money
All stocks are sleeper
Specialty is dividends

With this game-like ecology, Yggdrasil makes a creative DOTA-like character to personalities in stock trader along with creative RPG skills. It ends with a funny note

How much capital does it take to live off from earning from stock trading?
It depends on your lifestyle. ZF shares the cost of living from stock trading