Chapter 5
Managing the Trade
In This Chapter
Creating trading rules: The five-step plan
Blending trading rules with indicators yields trading style
Knowing when to take the money and run
Keeping losses under control
Finding out how to adjust positions
In technical trading, you use indicators that help you identify what the price is doing, but indicators don't always have an embedded buy/sell trading rule. Even indicators that do contain an inherent buy/sell instruction (like a breakout) can be unreliable. You need to invent a reliability quotient of your own. Indicators are a foundation, but it's up to you to build trading rules around them. Indicators are about price changes. Trading rules are about you and your money.
In this chapter, I talk about developing trading rules that reflect your risk appetite. The emphasis is on stop-loss rules — don't leave home without one.
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