stock trading

You Need Trading Money Management

Now, these rules and guidelines for trading money management are determined before you even enter the stock, that way you don’t get emotionally involved with the stock and make poor trading decisions. You want to make sure with good trading money management, that you can maximize your profit on a winning trade and minimize your losses on a losing trade. With superior trading money management,...

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How Much Trading Capital To Risk

Remember, the goal with your trading capital is to keep your losses as small as possible while also making sure that we open a large enough position so we can capitalize on profits as well. So the question becomes, regarding trading capital, what is a small loss? Well, they’re usually represented as a percentage of your trading float, and studies have been done that suggest you should never risk...

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Setting Stops With Average True Range

You may have read that many traders use the average true range for setting their stop losses. The reason is that the average true range is a fantastic measure of volatility and market noise. Very simply, the average true range (ATR) determines a security’s volatility over a given period. That is, the tendency of a security to move, in either direction. More specifically, the average true range...

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