World Record day

Discussion in 'Trading' started by traderich, Feb 7, 2007.

  1. reg

    reg

    In an earlier thread, you had mentioned that your stop loss for the day would be $1800. Why did it go up to $3000 today?
    Wishing you more profitable days ahead and thanks for keeping us updated.
     
    #41     Feb 11, 2007
  2. Hi Reg,

    Yes. You are right that I had said I had stop loss of $1800. This, as any of things I said, are not held in stone.

    My original record keeping was to hold on until close no matter what. but, after reviewing some of the bad days, I thought it better to cut the losses on the bad days. Problem was deciding where to take the loss for the day and end it.

    When I had written the $1800 stop loss, it seemed like a good cutoff. After I posted that, I was giving it some more thought, and realized that I was not 100% sure that some days may have gone down $3000 but bounced back a little and ended down say $1000 or $1500.

    So, I decided to let this day run a little longer and cut loose at $3000 mark. As it turned out, the day would have been a $2400 loss at the close. So my stop loss hurt me.

    BW today looks like its up way too high, but who knows right?
     
    #42     Feb 12, 2007