For sure are small stops working for you, I don`t doubt, but you don`t want to stay in 1(one) position till MOC or late afternoon. The rule of...
@romik I made the work and did apply different fixed pointstops in a strategy of mine to show the effects of different stopsizes in this...
I again observed a nice exhaustion bar, if anybody really looking for a long in this downtrend (or an exitpoint...) it`s more secure to wait for...
No word about small stops, if translating this in my world, if I´m looking for 5-8 points ES for the day I can(and should..)use a stop of 5-10...
mmmmmhh, By looking this thread i find this here.... ...it depends on the setup many of my setups are vigorously backtested, so i have no...
If you refer to trade only "good" priceaction, you are facing some probs, sometimes the market dries out soon after some nice move/volume. Next...
The time I entered market looked good, but went flat soon....
and you may know it after 2-3 losses, uuuh choppy today..., nobody tells you in advance that this will be a choppy/spiky day, you see it after...
porgie, it`s not a problem with a system it`s a problem with more or less random marketnoise, the less volume in the market, the more the chop and...
you ending with the same loss by looking for one trade/day with let`s say 6 points ES, or getting stopped 3 times with 2 points, and i had times...
I don`t want to length this stop thing, this meets to many opinions and is surprisingly a highly emotionloaded stuff... My arguments against...
That`s splitting hairs talking about a few points more or less, that was a period of very high vola and indexlevel reducing 2 points to a...
even in shorter times you see a lot of fluctuation, so you would have better used larger stops ~ april 2005 and smaller in the summer, you see it...
coolweb, ATR = averagetruerange, all my stops and targets are based on it. Averagetruerange(10) = average size of bars the last 10 bars,...
Spike did say 2 points was the stopsize for him not reducing his netprofit too much(but reduced...), so far I remember.... So assume Spike to...
stopsize is NOT variable Man...in 2000 we had days with 80 -100 points ES and most of the time ~30-50points, you are talking about using 2...
Well, that`s all right, I said stopsize depends on the exact definition of strategy/entrypoint. So a stop working for one person with very good...
the myth about small stops.... some mean using small stops keep them out of trouble....wrong Stopsize is an Var. depends on strat. and...
all this(and every other...) strats work out good only cause the exits, if taking just the reversalsignals or any more simple exits or one...
veeerryy last word to pullback... it`s a definitive sound principle, but the S&P is not the easiest to trade this (or any other method...:-)...
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