Pretty good alright!Patience now becomes the problem.Some down days and a stagnet sp,a thought that youve found the next big thing.........
Buying at a buck?Its a no brainer!!
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Painful chat from me. Apologies in advance. Baa Baa I’m keen to understand how you decide on a stop loss. I have recently put stop losses on a handful of my holdings (approximately half of my holding in each company).
Naturally nervous that my stoploss is triggered and sp recovers quickly following this.
How do you identify a trigger and how carefully do you manage these?
The most recent run up in OCA followed these shares pumping. Be interesting to watch today
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I'm no expert petty, and there's no hard and fast rules that I'm aware of, I just do what I think is right for each of my holdings, they're all different. I use SL because I am unable to actively monitor the daily price and therefore cannot execute a trade when I might need to. Typically I'd figure out the the usual daily % price swings, and place a stop loss sell 'at market' outside the limit of that range, so for example if usual swing maximum is <5% then a stop loss might be at 8-10%.
I never use stop loss limit sell because the market can drop lower than my limit and I'm left in the ask with a higher price. Stop loss sell at market can also execute at well below the trigger price, it's just a safety net, get out of jail. Because we can't set a 'trailing stop loss' (automatically adjusts the trigger following the price) I check and adjust my SL orders daily after close of trade - yes it's a pain. Depending on the size of the holding and amount of capital gain, my SL order can range from the whole holding, to a percentage of the holding.
Sorry this is so vague but there's no science involved imo, it's finding a SL for each holding that fits my risk tolerance level, which is different for each holding.
TA a small pull back which we have had from 1.08 , lucky if we get 101-102.. FEB meeting on and the market is expecting the balance sheet to go to 10 billion. Cant see this stock staying under a dollar for long.
We needed this pull back in my opinion. Some taking profits and rightly so.So much potential here over the next few years.I for one will not be selling anytime soon.
At risk of staying off-topic, no. I said my method has no science, though sometimes I might base the trigger on a technical support. I don't trade shares anymore, so for me this is about last resort capital protection. Maybe start a new thread or find an existing one and we can carry on the chat there.