Recent content by ricktgolf

I guess I am in the severe minority then because the extra points that the TS has brought me once past my target especially on my larger trades have been well worth the price of admission. I agree that a % TS is probably better than a price TS in that it will increase as warranted. If one wants...

I do not understand why the general feeling here is to not use trailing stops. Maybe somebody can explain the dislike to me. Every broker that I deal with has trailing stops both in dollar form and in % form. Once your target price or profit is surpassed, employing a trailing dollar stop will...

Hi all I am a newbie to the forum, but not a newbie to trading. Am currently using a Turtle-like system for trading ETF's and manually move my stops daily based on ATR and a predetermined exit price. So far this has been working OK but I want to do better (don't we all). So I have been...