Right, as much as every trader's goal is to make money...my current goal is to be consistent and successful and thus limiting myself to 1 contract is a part of keeping myself disciplined. I guess what I was trying to say is that similar to NoDoji's comment is that in managing a trade there is the , “part one” management style (quicker, higher probability profits at the first obvious point of potential resistance) or the “part two” management style (holding for larger gains – a lower probability option with greater payout when it works. What I tend to do when having more flexibility, is to sell a fraction of my position in part one, then hold the other half for part two. Anyways thanks to many people on this thread. I learned that I have to learn more about backtesting as well as looking into spread trading. Also that everyone has different opinions on targets because we all have different trading styles but not that it is the correct answer necessarily.