Hi bbmac
i have a question or 2?
how do you determine your trade exit point?
do you trail out with a stop or given the setup and conditions identify a target area for exit?
how do you react /manage the opposing conditions that appear once in a trade?
ie like an opposing rentry setup after a reversal.... experience, clinical rule or other...?
Hi
I will answer your questions in the order you raise them.
1. Trade targets/exits...I have been asked about this a few times;
Like the
actual combinations of the repeating indicator set-ups
-with- the
actual repeating fractal geometric price patterns, @ the
actual combinations of potential supp/res factors I trade at - all of which combine to make for the highest probability 'full' trading set-ups for market entry (if validated by price as the trigger for entry) and are essentially my
Trading Edge, I have never published or discussed my exit methodology on an open forum anywhere. It is an essential part of my Trading Edge and therefore similarly remains proprietary, so unfortunately I cannot reveal it, particularly as in a sense it was the most hard won/discovered part of my
Trading Edge. What I can do is give you some guidance that informed my exit methodology that you may find useful in formulating your own.
Think about the following;
a. Is market entry With or against next higher t/f (+) trend?
b. How many set-ups on t/f's above that t/f being used for entry are potentially supporting the entry? ...Do those set-ups go on to be validated by price?
c. What are the relevant fib and fib extensions of the last swing on the t/f higher than the entry.
d. markets tend to move between imbalances of demand/supply and supply/demand or potential supp/res factors historically proven to create such....from this we roughly guage a trade's potential before it might run into opposing buyers or sellers and then judge pa around that time as to whether it will break or bounce from such.
Hope this helps you to think about an exit methodology of your own.
2. If an opposing set-up develops whilst in a trade and before the trade target is met this does not neccessarily mean I will exit on that opposing set-up or indeed trade the oppsoing set-up. Like your example if I am in a a counter-trend trade and a Re-entry set-up develops, unless it does so meeting all the criteria I have laid down as part of my trading Edge for such a with trend entry I am more likely to try and hold the original reversal trade open. For example if I have entered on a 1min Reversal set-up that is supported by say a 5min 15min and 30min clear Reveral set-up and a 1min Re-entry set-up develops, I am more likely to hold the reversal trade particul;arly if the 5 then 15, and possibly min reversal set-ups have been validated by price on their own t/f's in their own right. In a sense of is a judgemnet of what trading opportunity has more confluence of tech factors going for it. In general my exits do not depend on another opposing set-up developing, but this does some time occur, more when the original trade entry is a re-entry and a reversal set-up occurs, than the other way around.
The rule in the situation of an opposing set-up developing is really whether the original trade target has been met and how much tech confluence (ie supporting set-ups on t/f's above it) indicate that it has a good chance of doing so -and- whether the opposing set-up meets the criteria of the trading edge, ie whether it has a better chance of wiping out any gains in my original entry. To this extent it is part rule/part judgement based on experience...sometimes I will be right but other times I might be wrong but with stop by then trailed in closer if only beacuse of the opposing set-up if not to b/e, little or no harm can be done by being wrong. Ie I have limited the damage if I am wrong in holding the original trade open.
An example occurred today which I discussed in a post above whereby I rejected a 1min re-entry set-up because by then 5min and 15min candles had closed and were outside the 20bol in regular sequential divergence set-ups supporting the original 1min entry...it also didn't have any decent potential rbs. (post # 227)
Hope this helps.
G/L