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Should I stay or should I go?Three factors for good trade management Knowing when to make your move is key to being a successful and profitable trader. Here are three things you need to handle to keep on track: 1. Know the probability of the trade Make sure you know whether your trade is low or high probability and whether it’s against the trend or with it. If a trader goes long in a short market it’s a low-probability trade so more than likely it is going to end up in a losing trade. If you have a high-probability trade that failed, the market likely wants to change direction. If you have a high-probability trade that you don’t make a lot of points on, it means the market is slowing down or reversing. Sometimes low-probability trades also bring in points. Lower probability trades are against the prevailing trend, so taking a trade to the opposite side becomes preferable and may end up being a high-probability trade. That is because the trends start to change from the lower time frames to the higher timeframes. But you have to keep an eye on the higher ones especially as it might be a retracement on a higher-level timeframe (typically a 5 or 15 minute timeframe). 2. Know your rules for risk Be very clear how much money you want to allocate to a trade. Is your rule that you only ever risk half a percent per position or a maximum of 6% of your portfolio on any one trade? Having this clear boundary means that if you lose a few percent it doesn’t make a material difference to your account, your mindset and your wellbeing. Remember that your risk management will improve over time. Never get put off by the occasional trade that goes against you. If it doesn’t work out, look at your trading plan and see where there is something that could be changed. 3. Practice your strategy and approach Believe in your system and stick to it and your trading plan strictly, even if it looks like the market is going against you. Of course not all trades will be successful - with any business you have profits and losses. As long as the profits are more than the losses it’s ok. It’s about practice too, which includes practicing the skill of not doing anything for a few hours until you see a setup that meets your criteria. You never want to be making involuntary or emotional moves.
NYSE:ELEducation
by Trade-to-Win_from_Tradeguider
WHY MONEY MANAGEMENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE OF TRADING!Hey Traders here us a quick video that explains why money mangement is essential to trading success. Regardless of what level of trading education and experience you are this can benefit your trading. Without proper risk management it is very difficult if not impossible to protect your investment capital. Trading is a game of probabilities and in order to come out ahead I think it's important to know when to risk more or when to risk less. Especially when you are on a role in a winning streak vs waiting for the tides to turn during a losing streak. Enjoy! Trade Well Clifford
Education
by TradeTheIndex
6
Learn TOP 5 Tips For Trade Management 📖 Hey traders, In this post, I will share with you my tips for trade management. But first, let me elaborate on what is exactly a trade management. Trade management is the set of rules and techniques applied for managing of an already active position. Trade management is a very important element of any trading strategy that should never be neglected. 1. Never remove a stop loss Being in a huge loss, many traders refuse to admit that they are wrong. Instead, watching how the price moves closer and closer to a stop loss, they remove stop loss hoping on a coming reversal. The alternative situation may happen when the price is going sharply in the desired direction. Watching the increasing profits, traders remove a stop loss, being afraid to miss bigger profits. Both situations may lead to substantial, higher than initially planned losses. Driven by many factors, the market can easily burn all gains and move against the desired direction much longer than traders stay solvent. For these reasons, never remove a stop loss. It must be always set. 2. Never modify your stop loss if a position is in loss Watching how the price moves closer and closer to a stop loss is painful. Instead of removing stop loss, some traders move it and give the market more space for reversal. Even though such a technique is safer than the complete stop loss removal, it is still a very bad habit. Each stop loss adjustment increases the potential loss, not giving any guarantees that the market will reverse. It is highly recommendable to keep your stop loss fixed and let the price hit it and admit the loss. 3. Know in advance your profit protection strategy Where do you take your profit? Do you have a fixed tp level or do you apply trailing stop? You should always know the answers. Coiling around take profit level but not being able to reach it, the price makes many traders manually close the trade or move take profit closer to current price levels. Another common situation happens when the market so quickly reaches the desired TP level so the traders remove TP hoping to make bigger than initially planned profit. Such emotional interventions negatively affect a long-term trading performance. TP removal may even burn all profits. Do not let your greed intervene, and always follow your rules. 4. Never add to a losing position Watching how the price refuses to go in the intended direction and cutting a partial loss, many traders add to a losing trade in hopes that the market will reverse and all the losses will be recovered. Again, such a fallacy usually leads to substantial losses. Remember, you can add to a position only AFTER the market moved in the desired direction, not BEFORE. 5. Close the trades manually only following rules Quite often, newbie traders manually close their trades because of some random factors: they saw someone's opposite view, or they simply changed their mind. Remember, that if you opened a trade following your trading plan, you should always have strict rules for a position manual close. Do not let random factors affect your trading. Following these 5 simple tips, your trading will improve dramatically. Remember, that it is not enough to spot and accurate entry. Once you are in a trade, you should wisely manage that, following your plan. ❤️If you have any questions, please, ask me in the comment section. Please, support my work with like, thank you!❤️
OANDA:XAUUSDEducation
by VasilyTrader
5
Confirm Fundamental Analysis With The Olympus CloudWe used the unfortunate global environment to pinpoint natural gas as a trading opportunity in early 2022. We then used the Olympus Cloud to define entries and exits. When we are trading on a longer term time frame, such as the daily, and we are confident our fundamental analysis is on point, we will risk up to 4 times more (5-8%) than we do in our high frequency trading (2%). In these trades, we required the Olympus Cloud to indicate a higher swing low than the previous low combined with a confirmed bull cloud transition -- it's as simple as that. Our stop loss was under the cloud, and our targets were 2R, and 5R respectively. As you can see in the data section below this post, our commodity account has grown by over 35% YTD, with 12% in additional gains currently open. The trade accuracy was 80% with an astonishing profit factor of over 9 -- meaning we gained 9 times our risk. Of course, if we had gone all in, these trades could have earned up to 80%, but had the trades not worked out we would have taken huge uncontrolled losses. When you are trading with proper risk management, you will not earn as much, but you will keep your profit margins in check and won't suffer massive losses that are hard to recover from if the trade does not go in your favor.
OANDA:NATGASUSDEducation
by Level8Trading
7
Keeping Lot Sizes the SameHey Guys! Do you find your self increasing and decreasing the lot sizes you trade depending on your trade set up? Or perhaps even doubling down after a previous losing trade? I know I use to! For a number of reasons! The most common being "making up for previous losses". Now I don't completely disagree with different position sizes depending on the trade set up. It definitely has its place in higher levels of trading. When as a seasoned trader, the "revenge trade" temptation is mostly gone. However as a beginner trader, changing position sizes depending on the trade set up is a bad idea for 2 reasons: #1 It will likely destroy your account unnecessarily. By unnecessarily, I mean you don't have to lose money to learn how to trade. Although you may have to endure losses and persist through adversity in trading, the monetary losses can be small. #2 It deters the beginner trader from their primary focus. No, the primary focus is "not" to make money as a beginner trader. That comes later. The primary focus for the beginner trader is to hone and develop their strategy until the strategy becomes efficient enough to at least reach "relative efficiency". This means month over month, your profit and loss results are at break even. So when your doubling down on a trade, ask yourself, are you doing it to make money? Or are you doing it to develop your strategy? It's highly likely that you're doing it to make money. Again, you're changing positions sizes for the wrong reasons. So if you're a beginner trader, keep the lot sizes of all your trades the same. Focus and persist on honing and developing your strategy. There's a time and place for everything. When it comes to trading, focusing on making money is only relevant to the trader with an established strategy that's proven to consistently make money in the markets. Hope this helps! Have a great day! Ken
Education
by TradingForexPriceAction
1
Getting Over the Agony of LossesHey Guys! When a trader takes a loss, it can be quite hard. It can strip you of your motivation to trade. Or perhaps even sway your quality of life. But that doesn't have to be the case. Do you ever wonder why experienced traders don't have a fit after a loss, whilst beginner traders can go into a chatic godzilla-like tantrum? No, it's not because they're enlightened in some way or simply not prone to anger. It's because they understand what trading is "truly" about. Trading is simply about refining your strategy and honing it until it is capable of extracting consistent profits from the markets. Moreover they understand that in order to refine a strategy they will have to take losses from time to time. How else will they know if their strategy needs refining or not? Thus the experienced trader views a loss as an opportunity to further refine their strategy and more importantly views these losses as a necessary component to propel their trading to the next level. Now, viewing losses from this perspective, who in their right minds will throw a fit every time they take a loss? So just some advice to the beginner trader. If you don't have a specific strategy that you're working on and are hopping from strategy to strategy; consider making your own strategy. Of course this can be a mixture of strategies you came across in your trading education, but ultimately the strategy must be constructed with your original signature. This means that you understand the nuts and bolts of the strategy and thus have the ability to refine it when necessary. Once you begin this refinement process, upon a loss and the anger starts to kick in, you'll find that refining your strategy with the lessons learned from the loss will diffuse that anger that erupts inside of you. It will become an antidote that if persisted, will get you on the peaceful road to trading success. I hope this helps! Have a great day guys! Ken
Education
by TradingForexPriceAction
5
How To Succeed In Your TradingFocus on one single trading strategy One thing that many people try and do is switch between strategies constantly. This is setting you up for failure, and if the concept of probabilities is truly understood, you will comprehend the reasons why a single strategy will work. Any strategy is not going to have a 100% win rate, so first you should attempt at getting 50% of your trades right. After that mastering a 2:1 Reward to risk ratio is what will make you profitable. Trying to juggle many strategies will have you working tirelessly, but not moving forward in any particular one. Less trading, more education Many people have the conception that spending countless hours in front of the screen looking for potential set ups is how it should be, however that is completely wrong in my eyes. I spend minimal time now looking at charts and set ups, I highlight key levels I want to look at, along with alerts, and simply wait for the market to head there. Time spent looking at charts should be simply for education and mastering your strategy through back testing or simply understanding previous data. Approach the market from a neutral position Anyone that knows me knows how big I am on trading psychology and how I believe it is the most important aspect of trading. Emotions in trading can be one of your greatest enemies as it can lead you to failure even after your success. There are scenarios where you can take trades and be in positive which will lead you to feel over confident, happy, and those will ultimately will lead to irrational decisions if you let them. Those emotions will make you believe you are better than the markets, or that you can outsmart them, ultimately leading your successful trade to turn into a failure. The same can happen when you feel the opposite and lack confidence to enter another trade due to a loss, or think have feelings of doubt. This is why the market needs to be approached by a completely neutral position. Once you understand that for every person on one side of a trade, there is someone on the opposite side, you will begin to understand that the market itself is just a whole bunch of neutral information moving in nobody’s favour. Write your goals Affirmations are great and something that has helped me in every aspect of my life and not just trading. It is very important to write down your goals in order to manifest them into reality. All ideas first begin in the mind, and then come into the physical. Your goals need to be solidified, definite, and written down in order for your mind and yourself to know exactly what you are going after. Every single day, you need to read your goals aloud, envision them in your mind with every bit of detail possible in order to bring them into the physical. In order to achieve a goal you need to arrive at the destination first in your mind. Relax There is no need to rush a single thing in your trading journey, and believe me take it from my experience, every time I tried to, I failed. People attend university for years before going out into a career which then takes many years before mastering it, yet people want to master trading in a year. Patience is required in all aspects of trading, whether it’s on the charts themselves, or with your strategy, or with your learning curve. It all requires patience. If you are going after trading as a serious life career which you aim to remain in, then relaxing and taking your time is the first step. Nothing great comes from rushing it, especially the markets. Know how to handle your trades Based on your strategy and the concept of probability there are a number of things needed in order to appropriately handle your trades. Firstly, don’t touch your stop loss. I cant say this enough, but stop losses are determined as the final barrier before the trade is invalid, and they are determine before entering the trade. If you find yourself moving your stop, ask yourself why. You will find out mostly its out of fear of losing your money, which is one of the 4 fears of trading. Accept your loss and let the trade stop out, you had it there for a reason. Also, don’t leave trades behind out of fear. If you have a strategy that you have confidently developed, you should understand that the overall should be a greater number of winners than losers, and you should not leave trades behind out of fear, because they can be the ones that perform the best and make up for the losers. Another thing to have in place is an appropriate strategy for exiting your trades. Many people have trades that are in profit, however due to the lack of knowledge on how to exit their trades, they still end up not profitable. You need to have a system on how to exit your trades appropriately and at what levels. Always remember, the profit running on a trade is not yours until its closed. Risk management Yes, I know you have heard it and read it a thousand times already, but you have no idea how important risk management is until the day you master it and recognise it was the single greatest thing holding you back from success. People can have amazing strategies, the best reward to risk ratios, but with the inappropriate risk management trust me it means absolutely nothing. I have seen people overleverage on a trade simply because it “looked too good” compared to other trades, only for it to be the worst of the bunch. I have seen people lose tremendous amounts of money and one thing I can promise you is not a single one of these people lost 100 trades in a row at 1% a trade. Every single one of them lost their entire accounts due to ONE trade that they married. Risk management should be one of your main areas of focus, because believe me if you have mastered it, even with an average strategy you are doing much better than someone with an exceptional strategy with no adequate risk management. Keep track of your performance The only way to improve in any aspect of life is to first recognise what needs change and then work on it. It is very important to actually understand your positives and negatives and have them all tracked. A journal is one of the first steps in order to look in the mirror. Being completely honest is the only way a journal will work, and lying is only lying to yourself. If you are after serious improvement you need to appropriately identify all your flaws in order to better them. You should never feel down or behind, remember trading the markets is one of the biggest psychological challenges one can face, and that is exactly why not everyone is suited for them. Instead see it as a challenge to better yourself and achieve the perfection and discipline you have always desired on and off the charts. Trading the markets will teach you lessons that you will carry with you throughout your entire life and not just on the trading floor.
COINBASE:BTCUSDEducation
by opes_trading_group
331
Trading Roadmap for 2022Happy New Year to everybody. Here is my roadmap for financial year 2022. It is simplified version but generally it says everything about what to do. Plan: Everything starts from the plan. It is very hard to navigate financial markets without it. As markets move constantly it's very easy to get lost or become controlled by emotions (fear and greed for example). The trade plan is a tool that helps us. It takes some market knowledge and experience to develop a good plan and then discipline is needed to follow it. Also sometimes there is a need to modify the plan when conditions change drastically. Wait: Patience is essential part of good trading/investing. If you miss some opportunities then calmly wait for another ones - they are always coming. Execute: Do what you have previously planned. It is a trade management - also important part of trading. You can be right with timing but without trade management you could easily see all your 'paper profits' disappear. On the other hand you can be dead wrong with timing but with proper management it is possible to squeeze more out of that trade than from previously mentioned example. Accept Results : Probably hardest part to deal with when things are not going well. People just don't like to lose money but this is part of the game. I always try to think about it as cost of doing business or the amount of money I need to spend to make myself available for the winning trades. More info about how to deal with the losses can be found from my earlier posts: Trading in the Zone Trading in the Zone 2 Accepting results happily takes some practicing :) Learn: Making screenshots from your past trades is best option how to learn. It is also essential part of 'Journaling'. I like to save all my trades with real-time notes and comments - and then later analyse them. Repeat: Becoming good at something in this life requires work and practice. Trading is no different. So process starts all over again - enjoy. I wish you all the best for upcoming year. Cheers :)
Education
by Laurentsius
8
Fighting the need to be right in the marketsIn most industrial countries the educational system was created not to truly teach students, but to generate good workers for factories and other companies. Yes, we want these highly trained individuals to be able to think critically and generate new ideas. However, we want them to be excellent employees who follow the boss's instructions. So, how do we do that? We do it through our educational process where children learn that the teacher is always right. Children attend school for 12 to 16 years, and it is often reinforced that the instructor is always correct. For example, as a student, you are required to take tests. You learned that if you get fewer than 70% of the questions correct, you are a failure. "Why didn't you receive 100?" your father asks when you show it to him. So, your father expected you to be correct as well. As a result, we have a strong desire to be correct. If you don't get it correctly at least 70% of the time, you're labeled a failure. However, you want to be correct 100% of the time so that your father does not criticize you. As a result, you begin to criticize yourself first in order to solve the problem before your dad does. Let's take that and apply it to the stock market, futures market, or any other investment you could make. You want to be correct, and that to you means making money. Let's assume you buy a stock for $100 and know how to establish a stop loss: if it drops below $95 per share, you'll sell. Let's assume the price falls to $95 per share. You really want to be right, so you'd be wrong if you got out, or at least feel like you were. Your mind races with ideas such as, "It's simply a temporary setback." "Analysts expect a significant boost in earnings this quarter; I'm reluctant to sell at this time." "What if a few traders are manipulating the downturn?" So you hang onto the stock and watch it fall even further. It drops to $90. Now you have a 2R loss. If it was hard to take a 1R loss, it’s even harder to take a 2R loss. And all the same, arguments apply. Thus, you hold onto your stock. Now the stock drops to $85 and you have a 3R loss. You know you really should get out, but now your portfolio is down $4k and you can really write off $3k in losses, so you’d better keep this stock. You know it will turn around. Now you know why a psychologist and an economist won the Nobel Prize in economics for basically showing that it was very hard for people to take losses. People according to those Nobel prize winners become much more “tolerant of risk” when they are behind. The Nobel winners also showed that people tend to tolerate little risk when they are ahead, making it difficult to let profits run. People tolerate risk more when they are behind (i.e won’t cut their losses) and tolerate risk less when they are ahead (i.e they won’t let their profits run). So what can you do about your need to be right? Instead of focusing on being right, focus on not making any mistakes, whereas a mistake occurs when you don’t follow your rules. Your rules should be the golden rules of trading (previous article material). If you consider breaking these rules as being wrong (i.e., making a mistake), you’ll find that suddenly you can make money in the stock market or any other investment field. In short, you must think in terms of probabilities and statistics. As a result, you can pay attention to just following your system, and making as few mistakes as possible, because when you do that, you “know” what your results will be in the long run (knowing the expectancy of your system). Trade with care. If you like our content, please feel free to support our page with a like, comment & subscribe for future educational ideas and trading setups.
BINANCE:BTCUSDEducation
by financialflagship
30
Trade ManagmentLast nights price action is a perfect example of the importance of correct risk management. All 3 entries taken last night ran to roughly 3% and then reversed. Due to correct risk management all 3 of these trades resulted in Break even results instead of full losses. Finishing the night at break even instead of -3% is not a huge difference $ wise but also a massive difference mentally. By closing 0.25% of your position at 3% profit you are essentially Break evening your trading while still leaving your stop open and 75% of the position still running.
Education
by Matt-The-Trading-Cartel
Risk ManagmentLast nights price action is a perfect example of the importance of correct risk management. All 3 entries taken last night ran to roughly 3% and then reversed. Due to correct risk management all 3 of these trades resulted in Break even results instead of full losses. Finishing the night at break even instead of -3% is not a huge difference $ wise but also a massive difference mentally. By closing 0.25% of your position at 3% profit you are essentially Break evening your trading while still leaving your stop open and 75% of the position still running.
Education
by Matt-The-Trading-Cartel
1
How To Trail Stop Loss Effectively | Capture All day's ActionMaximise your Day Trading Profits 5X | Apply this trade management system to hold trades all day without much effort In this video I'm going to share with you a trade management idea which would allow you to trade and hold the trade from the start to the end of the day trading session. The Chart I'm using is US30 / DOW30. The Time frame for day trading would be the five minute chart. The idea is to make entries on the 5 minute chart and then use a few swings to add on. This can become part of your Trade Plan and you can apply to any time frame or symbol of your choice. It's a great way to maximise your profits using nothing but the data provided by the market itself. Price Action is surely The King!!! I bow....
OANDA:US30USDEducation
by iTradeAIMS
8
[Risk Management trick] Tilting the "Math" in your favor!We all try to find the strategies which offer best possible win probabilities. Yet, we often overlook another crucial component of increasing your odds of winning => risk management. Today, I am going to show you how you can use a simple risk management trick to tilt the "Math" in your favor. Would you like to increase the output of your strategy by 25% without doing anything extra? Imagine a 3R win suddenly increasing to 3.75R with no change in the strategy at all. Consider this trade... We are trying to setup a sell trade with a very defined -1R risk and +3R profit. If we were to loose this trade, we will loose 1% of our capital - and if we win, we will make 3% in return (3RR). Here, we assumed that we'll exit the trade when price moves -1R completely against us. What if, we pivot our thinking and assume the trade is lost when price has moved -0.8R : because if the trade goes that much against you, there's a very high probability that it'll hit your stop loss too. There is no reason to pretend that it can still turn around at the last moment. Murphy's law truly applies here - "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". If we do really pivot our thinking, lets see how it works in our favor! The Stop loss is now updated and set at -0.8R So a win will still give us the same 3%, but the loss will only wipe out -0.8% from our account. Now because our profit targets are still setup as per the original 1% trade, you can now see that we now get this extra reward if our trade hits its original 3R target The moment we draw 3R as per our new -0.8R stop loss, we get this - You can see how the 3R with -0.8R stop loss is achieved much before than the 3R with -1R stop loss (obviously)! That means, the extra reward you got when the trade reached your original 3R - is additional profit which you now have - without ever changing your trading strategy! 3/0.8 = 0.75 (which is 25% of your original 3R target) 0.75/3 = 25% You now have extra an 25% reward for free! New RR = 3.75 This is a very beautiful math equation for yet another reason! Imagine you lost your trade with a -0.8R => the additional 0.75R you will achieve (for free) from another trade will extremely quickly cover up anything you lost. As you can see, we can really use sound risk management techniques & Math to our benefit. This is called : Tilting the "Math" in your favor!
Education
by makuchaku
155
Gold - Trade setups to avoidWe have been posting potential bullish trading signals on Gold and the ways in which to enter this trending market of late, as the probability for these has been very high. Now, the market doesn't trend in a straight line, so when we saw the price in Gold make its way to the $1900.00 level we looked to see if we could get any confirmation selling signals for a potential profit taking opportunity. Its easy for anyone to show profitable trades but we believe that showing examples of why you wouldn't take a trade or what to look for to avoid a potential losing trade is just as important. As you can see from the 15 Minute chart, price started to form a bearish selling 3 drive pattern at the highs just above the 1900 level. When we saw the 3rd and final drive high reject a little lower this sparked our interest. With any price pattern we look to trade we don't want to enter right at the 3rd drive because we have no proof that price will stop there and do what you want it to do. Instead we drew a lower trend line in the hope that price could continue lower and break this to the downside. Until this happens, we are sitting on the fence and staying away. What happened in the end was that the momentum in Gold was still very strong and price actually used the higher 3 drive trend line to retest this on the topside to propel price higher. No break of the lower trend line, no trade. Sometimes its better to walk away and live to trade another day then to let ego get the better of you.
OANDA:XAUUSDEducation
by DavidVillagra
Swing Trading Stocks Trade ManagementThis is a Long Swing Trade I have open using the Elliott Wave Indicator from W5T on the TradingView Platform. The setup and entry for this 5th wave trade was text book in that: 1. The Elliott Wave Oscillator pulled back between 90% and 140% during the 4th wave profit taking pullback 2. The False break out stochastic crossed over in the over sold zone during the 4th wave profit taking pull back against the yellow false breakout bar in the over bought zone during the 3rd wave. 3. The Wave 4 profit taking pullback found support in the amber zone of our automated pullback zones, which represents an 80% probability of our automated 5th wave target zone (in blue on the chart) being reached. 4. The Risk to Reward was over our minimum required 1:1.6 - This include sensible entry and stop loss strategy - This can be seen on the chart. To manage this trade is pretty straight forward: The point of control for us is the price closing above the 50% Reward line (cyan on the fib extension on the chart). Then we move our stop just above the entry to make the trade "Risk Free" Then we Trailing the Stop "Two Candle Behind". So as Yesterday's candle closed above the 100% profit line (yellow fib extension on chart), I adjusted the stop just below the low of the 2nd candle back. In this case locking in 50% profit x Risk. So if you Risked $10,000 on this trade, you would have $5000 profit locked in! We are at a critical point in this current trend as we will be testing the previous wave 3 high and in some market conditions, this is too much and the price turns back down and corrects. This is why we lock in profit. However we have an 80% probability of the price pushing through and reaching our 5th wave target zone and will continue to manage this trade with our "2 candles behind" trade management strategy into the 5th wave target zone, if the price breaks through the previous wave 3 high!
NYSE:WPMEducation
by xBratSoftwareSolutions
WHY CAN´T I BE PROFITABLE??!!Every trader has got himself into a loosing trade. This is simply the part of this game. You will never be able to predict every move correctly. The biggest thing that separates a profitable trader from an unprofitable trader is actually not better technical analysis or more experience. The biggest factors in my opinion are trade management and risk management. These two components will have immense effect on your profitability. With good risk management you can be profitable even if you are right on less than 50% of your trades. Good risk management means you know where you should get into a trade so you can set a stop loss (which upon hitting it should invalidate your entry) relatively close to your entry. This makes your losing trades much smaller than your winning ones. And the result of this ratio will be seen in your profitability through time. On the picture above you can see how one of my last trades went. I got in on the close of the candle marked with a green arrow. The trade then quickly went against me. But with my risk management i minimized the loss by closing the position when it closed below the red support line. I also put a stop(white support line) at a level that would upon breaking very likely invalidate my my long entry. Even though i took a loss i do not regret taking that trade since taking losses here and there is a part of my strategy and it can not be otherwise. Yesterday i also posted about another trade i was playing on the s&p 500. That trade turned out perfect. And with 50% winning rate for that day i made some really nice profit simply thanks to my risk management. Here you can check out how it went You can also go check out my posts from yesterday on why i was taking those trades.
Education
by Mathsio
⭐ STAGES OF TRADER's FORMING ⭐ Hello, friends, today we are talking about STAGES OF TRADER's FORMING 👊🏻👊🏻 💡() - Link for good view!!! Professional growth involves going through several stages. 🔥 1. Unconscious incompetence 💡 randomly opens and completes transactions without a specific trading system; 💡 doesn't care about risk management; 💡 often changes the direction of trade on the spot, following the price; 💡 keeps afloat only for small successful deals and doesn't care about losses at all; 💡 but as soon as loses, motivation immediately runs out. 🔥 2. Conscious incompetence 💡 Do you change your trading system several times in half a year without ever exploring a single one? 💡 You are actively looking at your trading history trying to figure out what you are doing wrong. 💡 Are you still making impulsive mistakes that cost a lot of money? 💡 Do you repeat the same trading mistakes again and again? 🔥 3. The moment of "EURECA" 💡 No longer changes the system, but focuses on main and works with it. 💡 Begins to maintain a trading plan and a trading journal. 💡 The understanding comes, that trade is a daily routine. 💡 Understands, that in order to earn money, he needs to work on all the components of his system. 🔥 4. Conscious competence 💡 Understood the rules of the game and stopped losing money. 💡 Begins to make a steady profit. 🔥 5. Unconscious competence That's a stage of mastery 👊🏻. You follow your trading plan on autopilot.✈ Just one question will help you to verify have you reached the highest level or not: ❗do you feel stress, when you're trading ? If so, then you have not reached this stage.❗ 💡() - Link for good view!!! ✍🏻If you liked my post, put me like, write comments, reviews ... Guys, I'm so happy with your message in PM about your love for me. 😍For me it is priceless!😍 I'll try for you continue to be useful!!! 😘 Together we're a great team !!!👊🏻👊🏻 Always Your Rocket Bomb🚀💣
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by RocketBomb
53
Projack's Trade Management Tutorial (5 STAR)This is something about Trades Management (How to manage your existing position) 1. If the trade went well ( You are in profit ) , When Reward / Risk Ratio hit 2:1, Close Half position. (You can also close all, if you feel good enought to take all the Floating Profit, but you will have the opportunity Cost of not be involved in the next trend , Hard to decide? Then Close Half! ) Why? Coz by doing this, even the market goes back and hit your SL, you are still winning? Calculation: 0.5 * 2R - 0.5 * 1R = 0.5 * R , If R is set as 2% of your capital, then Minimum Result it 0.5*2% = 1% (Congratulations! Now you have a 100% Winning Trade with 1% Result, and you are still holding half position with RiskFree) 2. If trend is in your favor, and price hit 4:1 or 6:1 , or maybe 0.618 pull back, or opposit Resistance or Support , Feel free to close another half , which is 1/4 position. 3. If hit 8:1 RR, close all profit, or Move SL to the latest Pivot to trail your profit. You can use 8ema or 21 ema to trail as well. or close all profit when you see price action shows reversal pattern .
FX:SPX500Education
by tntsunrise
49
Introduction to the BEST Trade ManagerHello traders Let me highlight what the BEST Trade Manager can do for you. The Trade Manager adds another layer to your own systems, enabling custom user-defined stop-loss/take-profits and real-time analysis with risk-to-reward ratios. We made it as such the visual rendering is also very nice on mobile devices. Reviewing: - How to connect your own indicator(s) - How to read the graphical elements - The 8 Stop-Loss options - The 4 Take-profit options - The alerts and dynamic alerts for trading automation Links are in my signature for more information about it Wishing you all the BEST for your trading using it. Dave
Education
by Daveatt
8