Daryl Guppy – Risk Stop Loss and Position Size

Daryl Guppy – Risk Stop Loss and Position Size

Daryl Guppy is founder and Director of Guppytraders.com Pty Ltd. He is an active private position trader trading equities and associated derivatives markets. His most recent book is The 36 Strategies of the Chinese For Financial Traders. He is the author of several books including Share Trading and Trading Tactics and Bear Trading and Chart Trading (Also availabe in Chinese as ) and Trading Asian Shares and Market Trading Tactics and Better Trading and Better Stock Trading (Also available in Italian as Lo specialista del Trading.) Snapshot Trading examines short term trading strategies. (Available in Chinese early 2008)  Trend Trading has become a best seller and is available as.    in a Chinese language edition published in Beijing.

He developed the Guppy Multiple Moving Average Indicator which is included in Metastock, OmniTrader and other charting programs. He delivers accredited courses for the Singapore Stock Exchange and Society of Remisiers, Singapore. He is an appointed foundation member of the Australian Government Shareholders and Investors Advisory Council. He is a regular technical analyst commentator and guest host on CNBC Asia Squawk Box.

As a technical trader he relies mainly on chart and live market information to make trading decisions. He is the publisher of a weekly Internet newsletter Tutorials in Applied Technical Analysis, which explains technical analysis techniques and shows how they are applied to current markets. There are Australian, and  Asia & China and India editions of the newsletter, with each concentrating on local market solutions and trading education.

He is a regular contributor to the Sydney Futures Exchange magazine, Your Trading Edge, the US trading magazines Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Active Trader, Working Money, Bridge Trader, Australia’s Shares and Personal Investment magazines, Singapore’s Smart Investor magazine and The Edge business weekly and Personal Money in Malaysia.  He has a regular column in China’s Weekly On Stocks magazine and in Shanghai Securities News. (Chinese language only) He also contributes to Poland’s Profesjonalny Inwestor and provided sector analysis on the Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Philippines markets for i-invest handbooks.

He edited and contributed new material to the Australian editions of the US classics in the International Investors Bookshelf series, The Basics of Speculating and Day Trader’s Advantage and Options: Trading Strategies That Work and Trading Rules and Mastering Technical Analysis. He prepared the introduction to the Australian editions of Breaking the Black Box (M Pring), A Technician’s Guide to Day Trading (M Pring) and New Thinking in Technical Analysis (R Bensignor).

He provides web content to  Sanford on line brokerage, Reuters, On Line Trading systems, the Society of Remisiers, Singapore, Asiastockwatch, Telstra Big Pond Money and Quicken, Singapore. He provides charting chat room support and is co-host for the stockmeetingplace traders forum.

He trades from Darwin in the Northern Territory, of Australia, some 3,000kms from the nearest Exchange. As a result he makes full use of electronic advantages to actively trade the market and to keep in contact with other Australian and overseas traders.