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If you give your stop a little room at what point do you know that it's not going to reverse as soon as your order is filled. A stop loss is not going to prevent you from taking a loss, it's going to prevent you from taking a BIG loss.

I let my positions take me out. Right now about 40% cash. Surprisingly some positions continue to increase.

Ah; If you had held the fund you would have been down? Is that it? So in reality you are ahead by being in cash.

At least you know you won't get any support. Wait until you get a market crash and try and get your broker on the phone. " We are experiencing higher than normal call volume etc etc."

If you are in cash, how is your fund down? Should it not be the same as when you went to cash?

Can someone explain exactly how stops are hunted? I'm not disputing that they are hunted, there were days I was sure the whole market was just waiting for me to make a move so that it could reverse. I'm just curious how someone or some entity can bring the market down to my stop then jump it...

You'll have to define "a few" and "lots of" . I agree that risk management is the most important part of managing a portfolio but depending on what "lots" means, you can be over diversified and have so many irons in the fire that you can't manage them in a timely manner. I only have a few...

You have to realize that the markets are not set up for you to make money, they are set up for the people who control the markets to make money. Not unlike any other market be it groceries or used cars. It's like getting into a fixed card game, you know it's crooked but it's the only game in...

I suppose it depends on your broker. Why not ask them. My broker has AON on both buy and sell orders As far as a specific price I believe that the broker is obligated to get you the best price.

Did anyone actually do this or is this a shoulda, coulda, woulda? My crystal ball has to have the batteries replaced and there's a supply chain issue.

You have to make sure you are seeing what the chart is telling you, not what you want to see.

EPS of 12 cents; dividend of over 2 bucks. Hmmm. You think there might be a reason the stock is trending down?

That's all you can do. :banghead::banghead:

Buy and Hold is just a long term trend following strategy.

I'd rather be bored and watch my capital grow than spend my day pumping adrenalin and see my cash disappear.

That's the thing with percentages. If you were down 2% on Friday and up 2% today you're still underwater.

I wonder if these guys could scale up to hedge fund size? If, and it's a big if, the YouTube traders are as successful as they claim, would a hedge fund consider recruiting them? One of the edges a retail trader has is they don't have to move huge size.

I'm not sure I can help. For sure no one can until you let us know what it is you are doing? If you are not making money doing what you're doing then you have to change what you're doing. Does that make sense? You are reluctant to divulge what you are doing because it has the possibility of...

So you don't want any help. I'm good with that.