Cut the Cord: A Trader's Survival Guide How to Cut Losses Wisely: A Trader's Guide Mastering the Exit: A Trader's Handbook As a trader, it's inevitable to encounter losing trades. However, the key to success lies in how you manage these losses. By implementing effective strategies, you can minimize their impact and stay on track towards your financial goals. ...
It's important to know when to hold a trade and when to close it. Knowing can be difficult, however ask yourself - would I open a position at the current price? For example, if you have bought a trendline and the trendline breaks should you close the trade? We say yes. The exception to this is backtesting. If you backtest manual exits of a trade you can find...
Both holding & not holding don't make sense. Definitions: - Holding = try to hit "homeruns" every time - Not holding = snatching profits at target (not before, that's just being a huge noob) Assume winners 5 times bigger than losers on average: 5R. And the winrate is of 20%. So that's a PF of 1.25, all good. To keep it simple there is no trailing until...
Hey Traders 👋 Today I wanted to share with you a quick lesson that has helped me with knowing exactly when to enter and exit trades.... First: Add the 4 and 10 period moving averages to your chart Second: When the trend begins let your profits ride until either A) A Candle closed above or below the 10 moving average (you could close early, but its the most...
OSCAR Oscillator by GenZai Green line is the Oscar Rough Red line is the Oscar By default based on the 8 last candles and smoothed using RMA Purple line is the Slow Oscar By default based on the 16 last candles and smoothed using WMA HOW TO USE Exit signaling This indicator can be used as an exit indicator when line cross each other. Entry...
SELF DEVELOPMENT/METHODOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY Trading Entry and Exit checklists Over the past 18 years of trading, it has been a crucial step in my development to constantly critique myself and my trading strategy. I constantly monitor my performance on a daily, weekly,monthly,quartley and yearly timeframe. Listed below is a small simple example of some of the...
SUGARUSD:OANDA Weekly Chart A-E are similar to A-C above. F. This is another example of a DI becoming dominant in a pullback but for only a brief period of time. Notice how (A) gave a signal but that an exit was quickly signaled. After the pullback (B), then (C) gave a new entry signal to long side for many weeks before TRIX signaled a potential cover of the...
Part 1 can be found here: Key Tenants DMI is used as a triggering mechanism to establish support->resistance or resistance->support lines TRIX used to identify targets to exit and re-enter and on-going trend (if the DMI indicates a down trend, the a negative cross of TRIX over HMA would indicate a level to short Divergence can happen in both DMI and...