A pair of months ago, I wrote a post against money management: this is still true, but maybe a stop profit is safe, because we are here for marking not profits, but high incomes.
Avoiding the excess of trading (where is the hedge of good trading and the excess?), this means that a good rule is establish a priori a stop profit level.
In my desk, where average target is 4%, a good stop profit level could be 2-3% within 1 1/2 - 2 days of open market, nearby the first resistence (or level) you can find.
This is expecially true in downtrend patter, where everyone could experience quick movements of the market.
An example
FTSEMIB 30 Jan 2013- 1 Febr 2013
On day 1/30 at about 10 (local time) index turns down violently: it goes under 2% and under supetrend level. That's clearly a signal for going short. High of the day:17,900 open position : 17,550 close: 17,260
31 jan: in the morning, index reach first resistance at 17,100 (!). Position held because stop indicator of supertrend gives target at 16,850. This was a mistake: after touching the resistance (there would be really a good profit), index begins to paint a throwback.
What a pity!
Now we have to wait another passage of the index (after the fears of a typical throwback where prices reach supertrend level), before realizing our profit!!
Why only one time and not 2??
ENTER, EXIT, ENTER, EXIT!!!
Any source
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