Exit Strategy.

[alamayreh]

You may have the best of trades that turned into a loser, or u lost extra pips. Or, you had a bad trade that made unexpected pips.
Both of these are telling us something. The exit is just as important as the entry!

Besides exiting around areas of support or resistance, sometimes we feel disappointed by either not closing out earlier or closing out too late (lost some profit)

well, this is a simple method i've created tohelp keep pips on the table. It is quite simple, i give it in 3 steps

1. Three bars after entry move your SL to B.E (break even)
2. When another bar has formed, count from the new bar 3 bars a back (lets call it bar X).
3. Place your SL at the low of (bar X) for buying positions or at the high of the (bar X) for shorts

My backtest shows that if the trades are bad, u will be stopped out early without losing much. If the trade is good (lots of long bars) you will be stopped out when the trend is first exhausted.

Worked for me, hope it worked for you.

P.S, just pick a direction and try it...I know it sounds silly (funny to me too) but this is just my observation. Hope you can double check it with me and report your findings.