Protecting Your Investments: The Art of Setting Stop Losses 📉💰
Protecting Your Investments: The Art of Setting Stop Losses 📉💰
✅Setting stop losses is a crucial aspect of risk management in the world of investing. Whether you are a seasoned trader or just starting out, understanding how to set stop losses can help protect your capital and minimize losses. In this article, we will delve into the intricacies of setting stop losses and provide practical examples to illustrate the process.
✅Understanding Stop Loss
A stop loss is an order placed with a broker to buy or sell a security once the price reaches a certain level. It is used to limit potential losses on a trade. When setting a stop loss, it's important to consider factors such as volatility, market conditions, and individual risk tolerance.
Gold broke the rising support so a short trade was opened at the retest, with the SL being above the local key structure
✅ How to Set Stop Losses
1. Determine your risk tolerance: Before setting a stop loss, it's essential to assess how much you are willing to risk on a trade. This will help you determine the appropriate level for your stop loss.
2. Consider technical analysis: Utilize technical indicators and chart patterns to identify key support and resistance levels. These can serve as potential areas to place your stop loss.
3. Implement a trailing stop: As the price of a security moves in a favorable direction, consider adjusting your stop loss to lock in profits while still protecting against potential reversals.
Gold was retesting the horizontal resistance level so a short trade was activated, with the SL above the resistance level
✅Examples:
1. Scenario 1: An investor purchases 100 shares of Company XYZ at $50 per share. They set a stop loss at $45 to limit potential losses if the stock price declines.
2. Scenario 2: A swing trader enters a long position on a currency pair at 1.2000. They place a trailing stop loss at 1.2050 to protect against adverse price movements.
Gold was retesting the strong horizontal support level from where we took a long trade and placed the SL below the lower bound of the support level
When setting stop losses, it's important to strike a balance between protecting your capital and allowing for potential market fluctuations. By mastering the art of setting stop losses, investors can better navigate the unpredictable nature of financial markets and safeguard their hard-earned investments. 📊✅
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The Best Strategy to Apply Trailing Stop Revealed
Hey traders,
In this post, I will share with you my strategy to apply a trailing stop.
Please, note that I am applying a trailing stop only in trend-following trades and only when a trade is opened on a key level. I trade price action patterns, so the following technique will be appropriate primarily for price action traders. Moreover, my entries are strictly on a retest.
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Spotting a price action pattern, I am always waiting for its neckline breakout. (if we talk about different channels, then by a neckline we mean its trend line)
Once I see a candle close below/above the neckline, I set my sell/buy limit order on a retest.
Stop loss will strictly lie below the lows of the pattern if we buy and above the highs of the pattern if we sell.
I spotted a horizontal trading range on an hourly time frame on AUDUSD. I set a sell limit order after a breakout of its neckline. Stop loss is lying above the highs of the pattern.
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Once we are in a trade, you should measure the pattern's range (distance from its high to its low based on wicks) and then project that range from the entry to the direction of the trade.
In the picture above, the pattern range and its projection are the underlined blue areas.
Once the price reaches the projection of the pattern's range, you should move your stop loss to entry and make your position risk-free.
Move stop to breakeven in traders' slang.
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Then you should let the market go.
📈If you are holding a long position, you should let the market retrace and set a higher low and then a new higher high or AT LEAST an equal high. Once these conditions are met, you can trail your stop and set it below the last higher low.
📉If you are holding a short position, you should let the market retrace and set a lower high and then a new lower low or AT LEAST an equal low. Once these conditions are met, you can trail your stop and set it above the last lower high.
In the example above, stop loss was modified when the price set a new lower high. Stop loss is now lying above that.
Catching a trending market you should trail your stop based on new higher lows / lower highs that the price sets. Occasionally you will catch big winners.
How do you apply a trailing stop?
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