A little exercise to help you take profits more effectively is to ask yourself when you are up
a solid profit on a trade: «What do I honestly think is the highest - probability scenario based on the current price action and market structure?»
Not exact matches
For example, if you see a very
solid / key level that is near a 2R
profit on your
trade, you should place your
profit target just before that level.
If only they would focus
on the
trading and not the money then success will follow, like nial points out, once you can show
solid consistancy in your
trading with whatever
profits you have then the money will follow, in the form of other investors.
As of this writing, a
solid 3R
profit was possible from this
trade setup, without any involvement needed
on your part.
If you entered
on a «
trade entry trick» near the pin bar's 50 % level, you would have had to endure price initially moving in your favour, only to come all the way back to your entry over a 3 week period before then bursting higher and really making you some
solid profits IF you had held
on...
Scenario: It seems like whenever you hit a nice winning
trade and make a
solid profit you simply can not hold
on to that
profit for more than a week or two.