This story requires our BI Prime membership. To read the full article,Randy Frederick, the vice president of trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab, says he tells investors to"trade small" when the market gets volatile.
He also says investors should think twice about how comfortable they are with taking losses, because he suspects many of them have less risk tolerance than they think.For a trader in the red, the pathway back to profits always seems so clear: One trade, or a few smart moves, and everything is right again., that can turn things from bad to worse. Randy Frederick — vice president of trading and derivatives for $3.
Frederick's view is that as volatility rises, it becomes harder and harder to get those big catch-up trades right. So he advises traders to accept that they'll take some uncomfortable losses, and instead of trying to turn a profit on every trade or every quarter, make it a priority to avoid making things worse."You're probably going to take a higher percentage of your trades as losses," he said.
"The longer we go through a growth phase, and the longer we have bull markets, the more comfortable people get with the idea they have a high risk tolerance," he said."It's easy to say that you have a high tolerance for risk when you haven't really experienced any risk. You haven't experienced the negative side of risks, which is losses."