Here are my responses to the comments left on last week’s “position sizing considerations” post:
nonadamas wrote:
1. What about equipment, ISP failures, do you always write down your trades?
2. What kind of backup set-up do you have?
3. Brokerage problems, problems at their site or with their people making errors?
When I started active trading, […]

I want to share & expand upon the answer I gave to an email about position sizing the other day. Justin wrote:
[SNIP] After reading your article on 100 R i can now see that it would benefit me to daytrade and use 1 R per trade instead of my old 2 R per trade […]

“SkyGuy” left this comment on my post about high-priced stocks:

I disagree about low-priced stocks! $5 stocks have the highest profit potential of any stock out there. The reason is that this price level is where small companies make the jump to big companies. It’s the best part of the growth curve in terms of revenue […]

I’m always amazed at how often I hear people say that they can’t afford “expensive” stocks. When they say “expensive” they really mean high-priced, as in price per share as opposed to truly expensive based on P/E ratio or some other valuation metric. So these same people would be all over the stock […]

Looks like Gordon Gekko beat me to the punch. A comment that was left the other day sparked me to write about a pet peeve of mine — people focusing on stock price & number of shares (smoke & mirrors) instead of dollars & percentages (the true equalizer). I’m still gonna write that […]