frustrating Friday

Holding winners/resisting urge to take profits: I always seem to get this wrong. If I take profit on a trade, it will then fly off relentlessly in my anticipated direction. If I 'let it run' it always hits my stop. Without knowing what the market will do, it's hard to get this part right.

That I agree absolutely. Let profit run and cut loss sooner is almost impossible to do in real trading because you never know whether the profit is going to be there when you take it in the future and once you cut the loss, the loss might turn around and erase itself and become a winner instead.
 
Let profit run and cut loss sooner is almost impossible to do in real trading because you never know whether the profit is going to be there when you take it in the future

...That's what makes trading so treacherous...but also...so beautiful and magical. -- it's Part science, part art. :confused:
But don't over think things or take it too seriously. Enjoy,

...it will all come to you, sooner or later. the skills and lessons. -- it's the Journey that's sexy, they say...not the destination.
 
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Simply put - they don't know how to trade




Extremely bad advice





To offset the increased stops - I assume

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Folks should learn to trade

Volatility - as does a bull mkt - makes false traders out of all of us - until on the wrong side of it

Stop with the shortcuts and learn the business already

Or not - then bitch and wonder every time it doesn't work out

:)

RN


Actually its great advice, if you reduce your size and widen your stop you can get the same risk dollar amount wise. You have to adjust for volatility. If you had a 2 point stop yesterday you would of got pop out of a lot of good trades. But there's no one way to trade, everyones different. What works for you may not work for others.
 
charts, TA, PA etc will never make someone consistent money.
It's the same as using the lucky number board at a casino to make money at roulette.
There's no edge
Well said.

All the brokers are wishing all their clients are day trade using TA, I hope all the ET can try to figure this out.
 
Actually its great advice, if you reduce your size and widen your stop you can get the same risk dollar amount wise. You have to adjust for volatility. If you had a 2 point stop yesterday you would of got pop out of a lot of good trades. But there's no one way to trade, everyones different. What works for you may not work for others.

Nope - but say it again if it feels good

btw - Thur / Friday were not volatile - it was momentum w/ follow through

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Now.., what's a right way to trade volatility - for us chicken shit day traders

Hint - find the mean / trade the extremes / exit back at the mean


Enter when every thing inside screaming - Nooooo - price is going to keep going

Risk a penny or two - and make 20 cents or more (depending on the instrument's movement)

That's the way - uh.., huh.., huh - I like it - uh huh uh huh



RN
 
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Day traders have to go through the process of trying and failing. How else are we gonna find the 1% of day traders who succeed? It's like a continuous process of elimination.

"Many are called, but few are chosen"
- Matthew 22:14
 
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