Profitable CFD Trading Strategies
The two critical numbers to know when you are trading is the risk reward ratio and the winning percentage or hit rate. Understanding these numbers will go a long way to improving your trading.
The risk reward can be calculated by averaging all the wins and dividing by an average of all the losses. The risk reward clearly displays how large your profits are when compared to your losses. The hit rate is simply how often you win and is a count of the winning trades divided by a count of all the trades.
Is Trading CFDs Like Winning Lotto?
Judging by the number of people that play lotto this is the way to generate wealth, but is it really?
The attraction of lotto is the low outlay or risk. If you lose it only costs you $10 and if you win the returns are potentially enormous, maybe $10 million. The risk reward of Lotto is 1 million:1. This is an excellent risk reward ratio and one you are very unlikely to find anywhere else.
But it is not how much you win that is important when playing lotto it is how often do you win. An awesome risk reward is coupled with an awful hit rate. To win lotto if you require 6 from 40 balls then your probability of success is 1:3,838,380.
If you bought 3,838,380 tickets on average one ticket would win and the rest (3,838,379) would lose. This means on average you would have to spend $38,383,790 to win $10 million. Overall playing Lotto would cost you $28,383,790.
Overall, buying Lotto tickets is not a profitable strategy. Luck will favour some people in Lotto, but successful CFD trading is not about luck, it is about exploiting profitable opportunities.
Can Betting On Rugby Improve Your Trading?
In the Super 14 rugby series in New Zealand the Crusaders has been a dominant team over the last ten years winning 7 of the 10 series.
A large bet of $100,000 was made that the Crusaders would win a particular game. The payoff if the Crusaders won was $108,000 so the gambler would receive a profit of just $8,000. With a downside of $100,000 the risk reward is very poor at 8:100 or 0.08.
However when you consider the odds of a Crusaders win they were very high. If the probability is high enough, more than 90%, then this could actually be a profitable strategy.
Calculating the probability of a team winning a game is not an easy task, but assuming the odds were 95%, then the gambler would win 19 times $8,000 and lose $100,000 just once. It could be that our gambler had a profitable strategy despite the lousy risk reward.
To trade CFDs successfully it is vitally important to have a strategy that overall you expect to win because the combination of risk reward and hit rate are in your favour. - 23199
The risk reward can be calculated by averaging all the wins and dividing by an average of all the losses. The risk reward clearly displays how large your profits are when compared to your losses. The hit rate is simply how often you win and is a count of the winning trades divided by a count of all the trades.
Is Trading CFDs Like Winning Lotto?
Judging by the number of people that play lotto this is the way to generate wealth, but is it really?
The attraction of lotto is the low outlay or risk. If you lose it only costs you $10 and if you win the returns are potentially enormous, maybe $10 million. The risk reward of Lotto is 1 million:1. This is an excellent risk reward ratio and one you are very unlikely to find anywhere else.
But it is not how much you win that is important when playing lotto it is how often do you win. An awesome risk reward is coupled with an awful hit rate. To win lotto if you require 6 from 40 balls then your probability of success is 1:3,838,380.
If you bought 3,838,380 tickets on average one ticket would win and the rest (3,838,379) would lose. This means on average you would have to spend $38,383,790 to win $10 million. Overall playing Lotto would cost you $28,383,790.
Overall, buying Lotto tickets is not a profitable strategy. Luck will favour some people in Lotto, but successful CFD trading is not about luck, it is about exploiting profitable opportunities.
Can Betting On Rugby Improve Your Trading?
In the Super 14 rugby series in New Zealand the Crusaders has been a dominant team over the last ten years winning 7 of the 10 series.
A large bet of $100,000 was made that the Crusaders would win a particular game. The payoff if the Crusaders won was $108,000 so the gambler would receive a profit of just $8,000. With a downside of $100,000 the risk reward is very poor at 8:100 or 0.08.
However when you consider the odds of a Crusaders win they were very high. If the probability is high enough, more than 90%, then this could actually be a profitable strategy.
Calculating the probability of a team winning a game is not an easy task, but assuming the odds were 95%, then the gambler would win 19 times $8,000 and lose $100,000 just once. It could be that our gambler had a profitable strategy despite the lousy risk reward.
To trade CFDs successfully it is vitally important to have a strategy that overall you expect to win because the combination of risk reward and hit rate are in your favour. - 23199
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Jeff Cartridge is the author of Supercharge Your Trading with CFDs and created the website LearnCFDs.com Find the Best CFD Trading Books
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