BambinoFlex wrote:IgazI wrote: What people imagine it is like to exit with limit orders vs the reality. . . how do you stop the market from stealing your soul? you trade smaller, you start at 1/6 to 1/4 size until you have a cushion of profit.
If you want to be a stupid SOB and trade at a size of 1 with no stop and no profit then, yeah, get REKT
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I don't get it. Picture on right has limit buys, as in you're trying to get in at a better price after price moved out and up?
If you're short, you exit by buying back your contracts:
I am talking about using a limit order to exit a trade that you are already in:
You are basically just dragging a 'take profit' order down until a correction takes you out, and maybe linking it to a sell stop at some point:
- if it's not time to exit then don't use a stop loss.
- if price is not near a limit order then don't place a stop.
- if you place a stop then link it to the limit order.
The post was about the fear of not having a stop loss in place vs the reality of not using a stop loss.

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