How do you follow trade management?

[Waylen]

Do you manage your trades actively, such as taking partial profits, cutting losses short or do you simply let your take profit (TP) and stop loss (SL) orders get hit without management?

 

[Franziskaschulz]

Well I am not really sure about what you mean by trade management, I have heard about risk management and capital management, but this one is new

 

[PPC]

Do you manage your trades actively, such as taking partial profits, cutting losses short or do you simply let your take profit (TP) and stop loss (SL) orders get hit without management?

It depends what TF and strategy I’m trading.

The bulk of my trades are in FX on M30-H4 TFs trading from zone to zone. If I’m lazy or busy, I use “set & forget” approach. i.e. Often times I’ll simply enter with limit order and SL, and my target is at the first overhead supply/demand zone (relative to the proper TF of reference) without leaving runners or cutting trades. I just let things play out, BUT I’ll put alerts near my target and I’ll watch PA and close the trade manually if the price will start reversing so I don’t give up my profits, but I would not hold the trade past my target if I entered with a plan to take it off at that target.

If certain conditions are met when I’m planning a trade and I want to increase my R/R by looking for runners beyond first overhead supply/demand zone, then the preceding PA needs to be very clear about who is control (eg. was there a BO of something significant to the left???). Gathering additional PA info from surrounding higher TFs needs to provide me with an “opinion” on whether or not the PA is behaving in a way to warrant scaling out at first target and leaving on a runner to the second zone. If not, then I’ll keep it simple and will get out at the first target because my targets are based on “trading from zone to zone”.

If I trade low TFs (M1 on UJ, EU, AU and DAX), then it’s always out at the first overhead supply/demand zone (I have TP order in) because I simply suck at making sound decisions when I’m rushed.


PS: I don’t let statistics dictate my trade management, only PA. The problem with statistics is that they don’t tell me “what is happening right now”, only PA does. I believe that managing trades based on statistics is inefficient and lowers expectancy.

 

[Bad_Badness]

Do you manage your trades actively, such as taking partial profits, cutting losses short or do you simply let your take profit (TP) and stop loss (SL) orders get hit without management?

Static management is OK, Active management is better, IMO, as long as you actually know what you are doing. Not knowing what you are doing has the danger of putting "the cart before the horse".

• Some do "management" using the result of the management as the trigger for doing something.

• Some concentrate on gathering all the relevant information about the trade, and then based on that (updating) information, manage the trade.

As PPC said, he uses PA and then makes a decision.

Also the types of information are not all the same. PA is not the same as the time of day, or the pending event, or reaching a set goal for the trade, or knowing you are imminently exiting and choosing the exact place-time.

One has to sort out the categories and act accordingly. Willy nilly conflating the categories is a recipe for thrashing your system.

PS: Most people cannot keep track of all the relevant information and ignore it and only take into account the information they are tracking. Can a day trader actually track say 30 things, and update it every 1 minute? That is what computers are for!

 

[SimpleMeLike]

Do you manage your trades actively, such as taking partial profits, cutting losses short or do you simply let your take profit (TP) and stop loss (SL) orders get hit without management?

Good Morning Waylen,

I use PT and SL. Sometimes I remove the SL and have no SL.

 

[Jack1960]

I use trade management guidelines from The Arora Report. These guidelines are comprehensive and have made a huge difference.

 

[murray t turtle]

Do you manage your trades actively, such as taking partial profits, cutting losses short or do you simply let your take profit (TP) and stop loss (SL) orders get hit without management?

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ALL that;
but doing several diffrent ETFs + business + more business works well + better than all that .
Even better since comissions went low \
or no\comissions .

 

[2rosy]

Do you manage your trades actively, such as taking partial profits, cutting losses short or do you simply let your take profit (TP) and stop loss (SL) orders get hit without management?

you could let each strategy just run and then have a separate strategy called StrategyManager or PortfolioManager that lightens the overall portfolio if inventory is too concentrated. So each strategy has its own internal position but the overall position could be a lot less.

 

[ArnavDeshmukh]

If you have a proper trading strategy then you don't really need to 'manage' your trades now, do ya?
Take-profit and stop-loss should do the rest. Unless!!! Unexpedcted news happen. Got to watch out for those. Otherwise that's it! A proper trading strategy with reasonable R ratio and TP and SL.

 

[Waylen]

Manage forex trades by setting clear entry and exit points based on your strategy. Use stop-loss orders to limit losses and take-profit orders to secure profits. Monitor trades regularly and adjust positions as market conditions evolve, adhering to risk management principles throughout.