When you move your stop loss so it fails to stop losses
Have you ever widened the gap between your stop loss and your opening trade to hold a trade open longer? Have you then cancelled a stop loss order to keep your trade open? If you have, you need to think again.
Investment techniques to consider when trading
Trading can be complicated. You can use fundamental or technical analysis and the two are not the same thing. People who love charts enjoy the Elliott Wave principle and Volume weighted average price or VWAP, as it is called. Real number-crunchers love Fibonacci retracement.
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