Stops & exits
Paper Trading for Beginners: Practice a Plan and Review It
Use a simple paper-trading routine to record a setup, entry rule, cancellation point, costs, and review before risking real money.
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Connect stop distance, position size, target space, and execution costs to a trading plan.
Stop distance and position size work together. Costs count too. Start with calculate stop distance and position size.
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Reward, Risk, and Win Rate: Understand Trading Expectancy
Distinguish a planned target ratio from average realized outcomes, calculate break-even win rates, and account for trading costs.
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Stop Placement and Position Size: Calculate the Planned Loss
Choose a structural failure reference, translate its distance into money, and round quantity down without treating the stop as a loss guarantee.
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Taking Profit: Fixed Targets, Partial Exits, and Trailing Stops
Compare three ways to exit a trade, calculate partial-position outcomes, and distinguish a normal pullback from a failed entry premise.
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Build a Trading Plan from a Bullish or Bearish Signal
Turn a directional candlestick signal into a complete trading plan: identify the pattern, define an entry, set the failure boundary, and calculate size.
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