Taiki how was the trading yesterday, also please post the ideal trades for yesterday
Also just for discussion sake do you keep fixed targets or use TSL method...
I use Fixed targets but that leads to missing out of big moves but sometimes it benifits too...
Thanks
Hello Jain brother,
Yesterday was okay. Market was lacking action and day was little dull. Did only one trade. So far I have been trying to TSL my SL and exit only when TSL hits. But I have been failed to do so.
Yes your are right - some times TSL works well and sometimes fixed points target works good. But in trending days with fixed point target we miss the big move. I was working more and backtested few things on my exit rule today. (Now the modification has both fixed point target + TSL). Looking to implement this from tomorrow and see how things will go on.
Exit rules
- 70% times price is staying in a range and rest 30% time it is trending. The trending phase comes after a breakout of previous 2/3 day's of range.
- During the range days it is better to stick with fixed points target.
- So before taking the trade. we need to decide the following things. - Entry price, SL and
Price Rest Area (RA)
- Basically in a range, RA will lie near the upper boundary of the range where price will take a pause/breath, but not necessarily reverse.
- This will act as our target price if price decides to stay in the range.
- As soon as price reaches RA, we will move the initial SL to breakeven, and need to follow the price action setup near RA.
- On sign of a reversal we will exit from the trade there itself. No need to wait and see our profit trade becoming into a loosing one.
- Else if price breaks out of the range we will simply trail our SL to desired level and follow the trend.
- In case We have exited the trade at RA, seeing a sign of weakness and price breaks the range after our exit, we can always take the breakout trade and entry on a pullback.
In my next post (Ideal trade for 14th Aug) the 2nd trade uses this exit strategy.
Regards
Taiki