"To exit a position" means to close or end a specific role or job, particularly in the context of investing or trading. It refers to the act of selling off or getting rid of a financial asset or investment that an individual or organization previously owned.
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Nevertheless, it is a day trading system that is designed to allow you enter, manage and
exit positions in the market within the trading day's session.
If you enter a stock position with a single order of 2000 shares and
exit the position with two 1000 share orders, all three trades will be grouped together as one day trade.
If you are struggling with the idea
of exiting a position you only recently entered, this is simply how it sometimes goes in the business of trading.
Investing in low - volume stocks may prevent you from quickly
exiting a position without forcing the share price down, which would lower your gains.
Once a stock is up at least 10 % and we have held for two weeks or more we look for a big volume accumulation day to
exit a position into strength.
As a result, traders are turning to bond futures, where having more buyers and sellers makes entering and
exiting positions easier.
The relative magnitude of expected pension wealth differs sharply between the plans depending on when a teacher
anticipates exiting the position, and the magnitude of anticipated returns to investment.
You get access to 5000 markets and you can enter and
exit positions using price alerts, real - time charts, one - touch trading and a range of custom indicators.
However, generally, when traders are unable to enter and
exit positions according to their trading strategies, things are wrong.
If SO heads lower, I'll at least add some additional income, and if SO heads higher, I could
exit the position with some profit.
No one can predict the future prices of markets the stronger the belief that you can then the harder it is to
exit a position when you are wrong.
When a stock is highly liquid, you can easily enter and
exit positions without directly influencing the stock's price.
If we get any kind of good news and a price spike I may consider
exiting this position as my original investment thesis hasn't panned out.
When stocks are so indecisive on a day to day basis, it may be a decent market environment for daytraders who
exit all their positions by every day's close.
This is why we recommend
exiting positions once a market trades through an area you perceived as strong support or resistance.
Another exit strategy to consider: let profits run and cut losses short.This may feel counterintuitive to some traders whose instinct is to
promptly exit a position that has risen quickly.
Regarding selling discipline, I'll never forget what Walter Schloss answered when someone asked him whether he ever regretted
exiting positions too soon.
I wrote in an earlier blog that I would
likely exit my position in Ebix if the company had not repurchased shares in the 3rd quarter following their announcement of a $ 100 million share repurchase program.
From my perspective I can only hope someone gets excited by the value in HAWK; if share prices were to get toward $ 6.00, I will think
about exiting my position.
-LSB-...] announcement does not bind a company to undertake a buyback, a situation we encountered recently: RACK suspends buyback and enters agreement to acquire Silicon Graphics;
Greenbackd exits position.
ACLS continues to be our problem child, and we don't think there is any good news on the horizon near - term, but we find it difficult to
exit the position while it's trading at a such a large discount to its (albeit deteriorating) liquidation value.
Exit Strategy / Take Profit: Asides using a stop loss to manage risk exposure, the following conditions are pointers towards
exiting positions entered.
the bid - ask spreads on LEAPs are larger than on stocks
so exiting the position will probably have more slippage than exiting a stock position
This puts a check on the price at which the trader enters or exits a trade, and thus the trader is able to determine his own entry and
exit positions based on his research and technical analysis.
For many traders who prefer to day trade (you enter and
exit the position during the same session and avoid holding positions from one day to another), trading futures is a great alternative to day trading stocks.
Many investors believed that the Fed was providing downside protection to help
people exit positions in a collapsing market.
In fact, pound bulls apparently used those PMI reports to
exit their positions since the pound began tilting grudgingly to the downside after the manufacturing PMI report was released.
So with the share price up 20 % since the announcement (obviously someone else knows more about this deal than I — or at least believes they do) I'm taking the opportunity to
exit the position gracefully.