When you are long or short overnight and next day it is a gap up or gap down opening then you may be incurring heavy loss.So how do you handle such a situation in the mechanical trading system.Because in gap up or gap down opening you will not be given chance to exit the trade,probably your position will be cut as it happened during the recent mayhem
Yes. agreed that, because of gap up or gap down, we encure losses as it is not giving a chance to exit existing position. but with mechanical approach, you will not always be in wrong side. chances are more that we are in right side of market as this is trend following method. And majority of time, it is in favour of our position and not the against. If you wish, you can check past data that i have uploaded in my 1st message and calculate the profit/loss for those days of gap up/gap down.
So in general, i do not think to do anything in case of gap up or gap down. if it is against our position, simply we exit and wait as we are currently doing.
Thanks & Regards,
Vinod