Trading Baskets Instead of Individual Instruments: The Evolution of My Approach to Risk and Profitability
At the beginning of my trading journey, like many aspiring traders, I focused on trading one or a few individual instruments—stocks, futures, currency pairs. I chased trends, played bounces off local extremes, applied classic “buy low — sell high” strategies and mean-reversion techniques. But over time, I discovered that directional trading in a single asset…