The is something I have noticed in the past months of my trading , you can master any strategy but that is not all because there
some obsticles will always be in your way .
Lets take for an example if you record all your trades for a certain period and calculate all your winning trades you will find that no matter how good your strategy is but the record will not be a 100% winning trades ,if it is a 100% wins it means you are a good trader / or you have a good EA .
But in my case it is rare to find a record that good . I have come up with a conclusion that no matter how good you are with analysing charts but you will never get them right all the time .It is not your fault / your strategy but in this case it is market change.
No matter how you are sentimental about the charts but you will never get them right all the time .and if it happens you enter a trade with a not so good judgement of the direction of the market , the relationship between the strategy and the margin becomes very bad .What happens next you 1st :Loose your confidence with your strategy . 2ndly: you try to get back at the market trying to fix your blander , only to make things worst instead of better .Trust me these is based on my real experience .So I had to try and save my strategy from my self ,by trying to avoid the relationship between the strategy and the margin being a bad one after a trader .
How is that is by tracking the volatility between the strategy and margin . So that's where my perfect weapon lies .Determination always trading with a determined risk which keeps my margin safe when I misdirected my trade.
so if my trade is a loss I am a mile away from blowing my account and confidence. Because in my strategy I always put my trust then my margin should always be in a safe position after a trade for if it went otherwise. you can trust a high probability setup only to find out that your margin is a bit low for your frequency .what happens next you find out that your setup is a correct one but your first bar after you have entered a trade has a long retrace before it fulfils the setup indicated by the charts. Before you know it you are stopped out" because of the frequency you used for the trade not that you didn't have a clue of the direction of the market. Here is atypical example
Margin: 200 lot:2 equity:-200 Before the market went to the indicated direction by the setup it went opposite the setup indication by 105 pips before retracing on same time frame so if the margin was 200 then it was already blown away before the retrace a stopped out" account your account was with your setup in correspondence at the end of the time frame, that is why we should consider the relationship between the strategy and margin before entering any trader .
