The TradeQs.com Trading System is built with Careful Risk Management at its foundation.

Minimizing losses and maximizing gains is absolutely critical because there will be losses.  Careful Risk Management protects our principal and keeps us in the game for the next winning trade.

I cannot overstress the importance of Risk Management and TradeQs.com makes it EASY.  All you need to do is calculate your maximum risk figure and our site calculators will do the rest - for every trade.  Please take a few minutes to read and understand the detailed instructions below.  We will have you perfectly matching the returns of TradeQs.com in no time.

Step 1:  Determine your Maximum Risk Dollar Amount

Our 2 Systems (Leveraged and IRA) have 2 different Maximum Risk Calculations as follows:

Leveraged System (non-IRA):  Max Risk Dollars = Account Equity x .02

• Our Leveraged System maximizes returns using leverage in addition to careful risk management.  Our Leveraged System requires an account coded for Margin and DayTrading (check with your broker for specific account requirements and documentation).  The TradeQs.com Leveraged System uses a maximum risk calculation of 2% of your account equity.  If you have a $50,000 account, your maximum risk figure is $1,000 ($50,000 x .02) meaning the maximum loss per trade is $1,000 **.

IRA System (non-leveraged, no shorting):  Max Risk Dollars = Account Equity x .0085

• Our IRA System maximizes returns without using any leverage and without shorting.  The TradeQs.com IRA System uses a maximum risk calculation of less than 1% (0.85%) of your account equity.  If you have a $50,000 account, your maximum risk figure is $425 ($50,000 x 0.0085) meaning the maximum loss per trade is $425 **. 

** Note:  Occasionally, the market will gap up or down through our stop price before the market opens, causing a greater loss than the max risk figure (this has happened only 10 times during the life of our data - over 10 years)

Step 2:  Use our Trade Calculators to Determine Share Amount

There are 6 Trade Calculators below.  2 Systems each using 3 Models.  Do not get overwhelmed.  Our emailed Action Alerts contained in the nightly newsletter will provide detailed trade information including entry and exit prices and order types.  The calculators are mainly to determine your share amount in order to perfectly match the TradeQs.com System's Returns and Risk Management.

If you would prefer to calculate share amounts on your own, the formulas are near the bottom of this page here.

Manually Calculating Share Amounts:

Leveraged System (non-IRA):

• Model 1 (Trend Model):  Take your maximum risk dollar amount and divide it by .022.  The result is the trade dollar amount.  Divide this number by the last price of QQQQ to get the exact share amount for your order.
• Model 2 (Short-Term Model):  Take your maximum risk dollar amount and divide it by .05.  The result is the trade dollar amount.  Divide this number by the last price of QQQQ to get the exact share amount for your order.
• Model 3 (Day Trade Model):  Take your maximum risk dollar amount and divide it by .02.  The result is the trade dollar amount.  Divide this number by the last price of QQQQ to get the exact share amount for your order.

IRA System:  The share amount calculations are exactly the same as above for each model except the maximum risk dollar figure is different (as described at the top of this page).  Also note: instead of shorting, this System buys the Proshares Short (Symbol PSQ), so you should divide your trade dollar figure by the last price of PSQ to determine share amount on those orders.