Push When Winning- Part II

Strategically adding to a winner to bag 6.7R, without increasing the original risk!

Don Miller- million dollar trader and educator- often spoke about one of the most misunderstood, and sorely neglected, ways of managing your risk. Push when you're winning and stop when you're not.

There are a few ways to do this:

1) Frequency of Stops.
2) Size.
3) Scaling In (not out!).
4) Daily Target/Daily Loss Ratio.
5) Reward/Risk Ratio.

Check out the short-lived, but very insightful, Trading After Dark series that Don created over 5 years ago for more on the above.

The only problem with all of the above methods is....they all won't work out in your favour some of the time. You need a thick skin, and a rock-solid, probabilistic mindset to allow a 3R win to come back and stop you out...or to stop trading for the day only to see that you could have made it all back if only you'd have continued ( etc. etc.).