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Michael Martin is a trader and instructor. His show deals with the emotional and psychological aspects of trading and managing risk. His book "The Inner Voice of Trading" and features interviews with Michael Marcus, Bill Dunn, and Ed Seykota - who also wrote the Foreword. Get the audio book free at MartinKronicle.com.
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Jan 25, 2018

Sometimes the best trades are the ones that you don't enter.

I know this might sound cute, but entering orders around big announcements can be a big gamble. 

Consider how you feel around trading the EIA, API, NOPA Crush numbers, quarterly earning announcements, and the FOMC announcements. 

Are you keeping orders on the book or do you lift them? Is part of the payoff the excitement around the trade ?

Lift the orders around these moments of uncertainly. If you're trading options, that's a different story. 

I don't think it's a good idea to make your bones trying to trade announcements as a strategy. Allocators won't know how you can model this in a way that has high expected values, and in today's world, low daily volatility. 

Cancel existing orders around the releasing of key data points. I'm not saying to offset existing positions.

 

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