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Position management<br />

With 10 pip Profit Target, the situation would look like this:<br />

I am not a fan of this approach. The reason is that it is quite usual for the price to return<br />

back to the entry level after the first impulsive reaction. The main reaction, however,<br />

sometimes happens only after a pullback to the entry point. This way lot of potentially<br />

profitable positions would end up too soon.<br />

The reason why a lot of people like this approach is that they feel safe when they secure<br />

the position at Break-even. In such case, it means that they can either win or quit without<br />

a loss. In real trading though, such people quit a lot of trades that would eventually end<br />

up as winners.<br />

Quitting the position earlier<br />

You can apply this rule in all three Stop-loss management approaches I mentioned. The idea is to<br />

quit the position at the Break-even point when you see no reaction to the level and when the<br />

price makes a long rotation in red numbers (below your long entry or above your short entry)<br />

without any significant rejection. In such case, you try to get out ideally at Break-even. For<br />

example like this:<br />

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