Queries on Profit Booking
All,
This question is not only for Savant but for all the seniors who do positional (more than 2-3 weeks) trading in stocks.
Around 60% of my trading capital is used for this kind of trading. The remaining is for futures - normally positions held for atleast 2-3 days in NF/BNF (depending upon my margin of safety)
I have been using the buy hold triggers of Savant to enter and scale up my positions in stocks. Normally, I look at EOD charts only to take decisions next day. Studying the charts and the behaviour of the specific stocks, normally my point of entry gives me enough margin of safety since I try to pick up or scale up only after a bit of retrenchment or near the lower BB if the stock is still in uptrend or near a good support etc.
My query is on profit booking. In the volatility of the past 2 months, I am seeing that I am better off taking profits off the table after a good uptrend (with around 15% profits), rather than waiting for the system to give a sell trigger or for my trailing stop losses to be hit. Is this just because of the current volatility in the markets or I am better off taking money out and putting it some other stock that is beginning its uptrend.
A recent example is Praj - I picked it up on 23rd June around 84 since it was already in a uptrend and on the previous day it had respected past supports, so I had stop loss around 78 nearby etc. This ran up to around 99 on 3rd and 4th July before starting to come down. It is currently at 89. It is still in a uptrend but now very near to my trailing stop loss. So I was better off selling it on 4th at around 99 and moving on?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Enygma