{"id":18255,"date":"2021-03-10T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/?p=18255"},"modified":"2021-03-10T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:00:40","slug":"how-to-handle-the-coming-surge-in-market-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/how-to-handle-the-coming-surge-in-market-volatility\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Handle the Coming Surge in Market Volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike&rsquo;s note: <\/strong>The big day is finally here. In just a few short hours, master hedge fund trader Larry Benedict will take the stage and reveal all the details behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT521291&#038;eid=MKT524674&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC094970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upcoming 7-Day Blitz<\/a>&hellip; Along with his unique method of trading it.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: we&rsquo;re right on the cusp of a week that&rsquo;s consistently marred by market volatility. Some traders won&rsquo;t see it coming&hellip; While others, like Larry, will know <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT521291&#038;eid=MKT524674&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC094970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exactly what to do to profit<\/a>. (His past recommendations, which led to gains of 212% and 184%, speak to this skill.)<\/p>\n<p>To put yourself in the latter camp, you have to attend tonight&rsquo;s event. <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT521291&#038;eid=MKT524674&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC094970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Just click right here to sign up if you haven&rsquo;t yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And until the show starts, read on for an exclusive interview Larry had with Chris Lowe, editor of Legacy Research&rsquo;s <em>Daily Cut<\/em>. We hope you enjoy, and we hope to see you at the big event tonight.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><center><strong>Q&amp;A With Larry Benedict, Editor, <em>The Opportunistic Trader<\/em><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Lowe:<\/strong> Your trading record is legendary. Between 1999 and 2011, you didn&rsquo;t have a single losing year. It earned you a place in the 2012 book <em>Hedge Fund Market Wizards<\/em>. You were featured in Chapter 3. Chapter 2 featured Ray Dalio, the manager of the world&rsquo;s largest hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>As the book&rsquo;s author, Jack Schwager, put it, you&rsquo;re one of America&rsquo;s most prolific moneymakers. You&rsquo;ve profited to the tune of $1 million on 509 separate occasions. And in 2008, as the financial world was falling apart, your hedge fund made $95 million.<\/p>\n<p>To say you&rsquo;re cautious as a trader is an understatement. You place huge importance on managing your downside risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry:<\/strong> That&rsquo;s right. I&rsquo;ve managed hundreds of traders in my career. I always asked them the same question: What makes a great trader?<\/p>\n<p><em>The answer is discipline.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was net profitable for two decades. There are few traders who can make that claim. And there&rsquo;s a reason: I&rsquo;ve always made sure I never let my trading account go too far below zero.<\/p>\n<p><!-- ADVERTISEMENT BEGIN --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"email-only\" width=\"95%\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: #868686; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" valign=\"top\"><em>Recommended Link<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-collapse: collapse; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; border-top: 1px solid #eaead4; border-bottom: 1px solid #eaead4;\" bgcolor=\"#fefeeb\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT521291&#038;eid=MKT524039&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC094953&#038;SNAID=%%SNAID%%&#038;email=%%emailaddr%%&#038;encryptedSnaid=%%ENCRYPTEDSNAID%%&#038;emailjobid=%%jobid%%&#038;emailname=%%emailname_%%\" style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #006699; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Don&rsquo;t Miss: The &ldquo;7-Day Blitz&rdquo; Summit Tonight at 8 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; border-collapse: collapse;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT521291&#038;eid=MKT524039&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC094953&#038;SNAID=%%SNAID%%&#038;email=%%emailaddr%%&#038;encryptedSnaid=%%ENCRYPTEDSNAID%%&#038;emailjobid=%%jobid%%&#038;emailname=%%emailname_%%\" style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #0070c0; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jeffclarktrader.com\/JMU\/images\/202103\/20210310-jmu-ad-pm-01.jpg\" align=\"center\" width=\"508\" style=\"display:block; height:auto; max-width:508px; width:100%\" alt=\"image\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px;\">Famous millionaire trader Larry Benedict made millions for himself and his clients&hellip; trading one single ticker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px;\">And it&rsquo;s all thanks to a strange phenomenon he calls &ldquo;the 7-day blitz&rdquo;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px;\">A week where gains can explode in a little-known corner of the market&hellip; sometimes in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px;\">The next &ldquo;7-day blitz&rdquo; is happening the third week of March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><strong>Which is why Larry is hosting a free online event tonight at 8 p.m. ET, to help you prepare.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px;\">He will even give you the ticker&hellip; no strings attached.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"260\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#006699\" style=\"-khtml-border-radius: 4px; -moz-border-radius: 8px; -ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-border-radius: 8px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; border-collapse: collapse; border-radius: 4px; color: #fff !important; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; padding: 8px; text-align: center\" valign=\"middle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT521291&#038;eid=MKT524039&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC094953&#038;SNAID=%%SNAID%%&#038;email=%%emailaddr%%&#038;encryptedSnaid=%%ENCRYPTEDSNAID%%&#038;emailjobid=%%jobid%%&#038;emailname=%%emailname_%%\" style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #fff !important; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to sign up<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; border-collapse: collapse; color: #fff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 25px\">&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- ADVERTISEMENT END --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris:<\/strong> How do you make sure you never go too far into the red?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry:<\/strong> I use what are known as &ldquo;stop-loss orders.&rdquo; Once a trade goes against me&hellip; I&rsquo;m out. If my account is down more than 2% month-to-date on any day, I clear out all my trades&hellip; Take a break&hellip; And start again.<\/p>\n<p><em>[A stop-loss order is an order you place with a broker to sell a specific stock once it reaches a certain price. It&rsquo;s a way to automatically limit your loss on a trade.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What I learned early on is you can make a lot of trades. So you don&rsquo;t have to let one trade define you. If a trade goes against you&hellip; That&rsquo;s fine. You can just move on to the next one. There&rsquo;ll be other opportunities. I&rsquo;ve often made 100 trades in a single day.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, I learned to accept losses. And I learned to keep them small. Knowing that any one trade doesn&rsquo;t have to be the only trade&#8230; And accepting being wrong&#8230; Is key.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris:<\/strong> In your trading advisory,<em> The Opportunistic Trader<\/em>, you talk about &ldquo;earning your risk.&rdquo; What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry:<\/strong> It means you shouldn&rsquo;t take on much risk until you&rsquo;ve had a string of smaller winners. When you do that, you build a pile of capital you can speculate with.<\/p>\n<p>But if you don&rsquo;t have a big enough base of capital, you shouldn&rsquo;t take on any high-risk trades. You should be targeting only 5%&hellip; 10%&hellip; 25% returns&hellip; And grabbing these smaller wins when you can. Same goes if you&rsquo;re just not trading well, for whatever reason. You want to cut your risk as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>You never go broke taking a profit. That&rsquo;s why I say you should always look to put a &ldquo;P&rdquo; [profit] on the page. Once you&rsquo;ve built a strong foundation of capital, you&rsquo;ve earned the ability to take on more risk.<\/p>\n<p>I made big mistakes early on in my career. It cost me all my money on several occasions. One silly mistake was making bets with too big a lump of capital.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;d tell your readers who are thinking of taking up trading&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>You should always stick with an amount you feel comfortable with. In other words, you should feel comfortable potentially losing 100% of the money you risk on each trade.<\/p>\n<p>Early in my career, I bet too much on risky trades&hellip; And got wiped out. After a few times doing that, I began trading smaller amounts. But once I got further into my career&hellip; And I&rsquo;d built enough of a cash pile from my trading wins&hellip; I began to make some larger, riskier trades with higher potential returns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris:<\/strong> That&rsquo;s not the way most people approach trading. They want to knock the lights out on every trade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry:<\/strong> I&rsquo;ve known a number of traders who ended up committing suicide or losing their homes. They had a gambler&rsquo;s &ndash; not a trader&rsquo;s &ndash; mentality. When they were losing, they were always looking for that one trade that would make it all back.<\/p>\n<p>You can start out being a small trader&hellip; And then work your way up to an experienced trader who makes bigger bets. It just takes time. The common mistake new traders make is thinking there&rsquo;s some easy shortcut to success. They get frustrated. They quit because they haven&rsquo;t succeeded overnight.<\/p>\n<p>You can develop an edge as a trader. But it takes time. I developed my edge over nearly four decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris:<\/strong> What can readers do to boost their odds of success?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry:<\/strong> First, find a mentor. Someone like me, who&rsquo;s been at this a long time and can teach you the fundamentals of trading.<\/p>\n<p>Next, learn not to spread your focus too wide. Rather than try to trade every stock in the market, pick just a handful and get to know them inside and out. Tom Brady isn&rsquo;t training to become the next major-league baseball pitcher. He&rsquo;s a seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback because football is what he lives and breathes.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, stay disciplined. Earn your risk. Build up a cash pile with smaller, lower-risk trades&hellip; And swing for the fences only when you know you can afford to take a loss if you&rsquo;re wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris:<\/strong> Do you see any setups for home runs in today&rsquo;s market environment?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry:<\/strong> Tonight, I\u2019m hosting a special presentation about something that I&rsquo;m very excited about. It&rsquo;s a phenomenon I call the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT521291&#038;eid=MKT524674&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC095073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7-Day Blitz<\/a>.&rdquo;&nbsp;It&rsquo;s a time of rampant volatility. During this period an estimated $1.2 trillion changes hands&hellip; All in the span of just seven days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not a lot of people know about it. It&rsquo;s hardly covered by the financial mainstream media. But it&rsquo;s possible to make more in one week than many do in an entire year&#8230; With just one ticker. Not long ago, I made $45 million for my clients by trading during the 7-Day Blitz.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, you can do it while minimizing your risk and increasing your odds of success &ndash; all by <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT521291&#038;eid=MKT524674&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC095073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trading just one ticker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the 7-Day Blitz window is approaching fast. I won&rsquo;t got into all the details here. But tonight, at 8 p.m. ET during my free online event, I&rsquo;ll reveal my strategy &ndash; along with the only ticker you&#8217;ll need &ndash; and how it could set you up for an early retirement.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT521291&#038;eid=MKT524674&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC095073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">So sign up here and make sure you don&rsquo;t miss it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is quickly approaching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[58],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-18255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-larry-benedict"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=18255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}