I respect your concept of your thought regarding your need for a stop loss. But, consider this: Many times the price will move, snap out your SL then head into the direction you wanted it to move in, yet you are already out of the action - thus you have LOST what is most critical to trading survival - profits. Continually losing profits is crippling. But it is what most traders do. Most traders ultimately lose though. Do you trade forex? Best regards, to