Some traders do not appreciate that knowing when to exit the market is just as, if not more, important as knowing when to enter. Exit too early and you might not realize your profit target, exit too late and you may end up losing more than you should have. Take profits and stop losses are very important tools that every trader must use to manage their risk when trading. But as well as these tools, your trading strategy should include conditions for exiting the market. It might be a certain level of profit or a certain amount of loss. Or just as technical indicators trigger traders to enter the market, there may be another signal which causes them to leave. Credits: Roberto Rivero/e dited and audited by Geovany C.Q
Now we get to the actual trading itself. The next step to building a trading strategy is to plan what your trigger will be to enter the market. For fundamental traders, this could be something like a change in monetary policy from a particular country. Perhaps when a central bank reduces its base rate, the fundamental trader will take a short position against that particular currency, or vice versa. A technical trader's entry to the market will be triggered by a technical indicator or patterns on a candlestick chart. So In reality, there are a whole host of different indicators that traders can use within their trading strategies. Credits: Roberto Rivero/e dited and audited by Geovany C.Q