1. Amount of capital to use: Divide your
capital into 10 equal parts and never risk more than one-tenth of your capital
on any one trade.
2.
Use stop loss orders. Always protect a trade.
3.
Never overtrade. This would be violating your capital rules.
4.
Never let a profit run into a loss. After you once have a profit raise your
stop loss order so that you will have no loss of capital.
5.
Do not buck the trend. Never buy or sell if you are not sure of the trend
according to your charts and rules.
6.
When in doubt, get out and don’t get in when in doubt.
7.
Trade only in active markets. Keep out of slow, dead ones.
8.
Equal distribution of risk. Trade in two or three different commodities if
possible. Avoid tying up all your capital in any one commodity.
9.
Never limit your orders or fix a buying or selling price.
10.
Don’t close your trades without a good reason. Follow up with a stop loss order
to protect your profits.
11.
Accumulate a surplus. After you have made a series of successful trades, put
some money into a surplus account to be used only in emergency or in
times of panic.
12.
Never buy or sell just to get a scalping profit.
13.
Never average a loss. This is one of the worst mistakes a trader can make.
14.
Never get out of the market just because you have lost patience or get into the
market because you are anxious from waiting.
15.
Avoid taking small profits and big losses.
16.
Never cancel a stop loss order after you have placed it at the time you make a
trade.
17.
Avoid getting in and out of the market too often.
18.
Be just as willing to sell short as you are to buy. Let your object be to keep
with the trend and make money.
19.
Never buy just because the price of a commodity is low or sell short just
because the price is high.
20.
Be careful about pyramiding at the wrong time. Wait until the commodity is very
active and has crossed resistance levels before buying more, and until it has
broken out of the zone of distribution before selling more.
21.
Select the commodities that show strong uptrend to pyramid on the buying side
and the ones that show definite downtrend to sell short.
22.
Never hedge. If you are long one commodity and it starts to go down, do not
sell another commodity short to hedge it. Get out at the market: Take your loss
and wait for another opportunity.
23.
Never change your position in the market without a good reason. When you make a
trade, let it be for some good reason, or according to some definite rule; then
do not get out without a definite indication of a change in trend.
24.
Avoid increasing your trading after a long period of success or a period of
profitable trades.
