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Originally Posted by dominator
I like the idea of aiming to catch 10 pips per trade, but with multiple lots.
i.e, 3 * $10 lots * 10 pips = $300.
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Thats fine as long as you dont risk to much..... If your trading with $10 to keep risk at 1-5% you should have a fairly large, ok very large trading account.
Your risk goes by how many pips your stoploss should be, its not an abitrary number it should be included in any stragie. When I trade on my demo its anywhere between 20-150 pips. Quite a big diffrence.
I prefer to do what I was told is best to do reguradless of your account size and thats playing the percentages. If your stoploss is say 20 pips, and you expect a 40 pips profit, you would get 2* what you risked. for 150 pips you need atlest 300 pips to get double what you risked. Granted my trades dont always work that way, I just closed a trade that got 70 pips profit with a 10 pip SL, and I've also had some trades that had lets say 20 pips SL with 10 pip profit.