I must start by saying that I believe Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investing offers the greatest opportunity for the common man to build wealth to have ever existed in the history of the world. Yet, it is still an endeavor that must be entered into cautiously and with research if one is to be successful. The Daily Chart for BTC/USD on (the pathetic excuse of an...
Wait for price to break and close below a level. In this example, price closed below support level and turned resistance. Next, wait for price to retest level as new resistance. The retest in this example formed a candlestick that created a wick which protruded through Horizontal Resistance Level, EMA 20 Resistance Level, and Diagonal Trend Resistance...
ICEUS:KC1! I learned a handy tool used to manage risk under certain circumstances - the Three Day Trailing Stop Rule (3DTSR) In this example, I actually fade the 3DTSR, but being able to execute different styles of trading strategies reflects an understanding of them, while acknowledging that no system or strategy used in markets will be perfect. Three Day...
Hello everyone: Today I want to discuss a topic in Risk Management, specifically on when and how to move your STOP LOSS to BREAKEVEN or in PROFIT when you have a running profit trade/position. In an impulsive phase of the market, we want to make sure to protect our entry as well as secure profits. In this example of EURUSD, I managed to get 2 entries in, and...
Educational Video On Trade management, Tribute video to my 700 followers on Trading view Key concepts of this article were taken from the book “How to Make Money in intraday trading”, Guru Ashwani Gujral, which is a very nice book for new traders.
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...
Stop loss placement is perhaps not the most glamorous of trading topics to discuss, but it is a critically important one. If you do not know how to properly place your stop loss, you will be in for a very, very rough ride as you trade the markets. Essentially, for a trader, everything hinges on proper stop loss placement and risk management. If you understand...
Last week around this same time I posted an idea on TBLT asking how traders get trapped in these gaps . I had just started to study gaps so this actually played out perfectly and answered my own question. I wanted to know how traders get trapped in these situations where you go into the weekend confident in your decision, only to watch everything come crashing...
🌐 How not to be stuck in your position? SIGNAL + TIMING = SUCCESS You asked me how not to be stuck in one long-term, seemingly losing position and how not to miss opportunities. You have to consider at least two dimensions of timing: zone and scale. What is a zone? - The time-zone of my signals is UTC, and so, you have to translate. What is the scale?...
Trading requires focus. It is crucial for traders to know exactly what to do to control their emotions while trading. It is also important to know when to accept a loss and move on. Here are 10 tips from the pros to manage your emotions while trading: 1) Manage your stops carefully. A cautious approach to stops and limits will keep you from making rash...
Institutional investors have a profound impact on financial instruments prices because of their large volume trading activities. They can greatly impact the price of financial instruments, however making a material impact and hence decreasing liquidity to the point where there may be no one to take the other side of the trade is not something they desire. To fill...
Let's take a quick tour of the TradingView Order Panel using examples trading futures via a connected broker Tradovate.
What is a stop loss? Why do i need to use it? Why should i listen? Stop loss is designed to limit an investor's loss, it is built FOR YOU. It's like fighting a boss without a weapon, yet there are multitudes of weapon ready to be used for you beside you. Why should i use a stop loss when my liquidation is far? MARKET VOLATILITY IS AT THE HIGHEST RIGHT NOW, not...
If we see a pattern form that retail likes to trade, It is highly likely that this pattern may get manipulated. The reason these common patterns get manipulated is because of liquidity forming. Banks want to make sure they can create enough liquidity for themselves to get positioned nicely in the market. They do this by driving the price up/down into stop loss...
In this quick and easy lesson, I will break down the concept of liquidity. If you retain the thought that liquidity stands for an area where stop losses are you will grasp this concept quickly. We often see spikes into areas of liquidity before true moves continue, this is so that banks can capture as many orders as possible before they depart from the area.
Typically, most traders have no idea how or where to set their take profit orders on any given trade. Most inexperienced traders will choose a risk/reward ratio and set their take profit based on a specific ratio. For example. The trader defines where their stop loss order will be, then drags their take profit up until it says "Risk/Reward = 3". Determining your...
Managing positions is one of the most important things in trading. You need to know when to place a position risk free and when to place your S.l. in profit. I always put my positions risk-free when the trend breaks a key level. From there, I change my S.l. every time the price keep pushing
Quanta provides infrastructure solutions to the electric power, oil and gas, and communication industries and has been consistently making higher highs since its March lows last year as part of the Covid reset and has been trending beautifully with relatively little volatility. The whole idea of trend trading is to try and find a trending stock like this one and...