You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very short period of time. What you can't afford to do is throw away your capital on suboptimal trades.
Richard DennisI always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.
Richard DennisA good trend following system will keep you in the market until there is evidence that the trend has changed.
Richard DennisWhen you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.
Richard DennisThere is another point that I think is as important: You should expect the unexpected in this business; expect the extreme. Donโt think in terms of boundaries that limit what the market might do. If there is any lesson I have learned in the nearly twenty years that Iโve been in this business, it is that the unexpected and the impossible happen every now and then
Richard Dennis