손절가를 어떻게 잡아야 할까요? 🤔

Your stop shouldn't have really changed. I took the same trade this morning. I'm still holding 1/3 of the position. You need to look into different trailing strategies. My initial stop was just high of day. Then I took 1/2 off into vwap and now I'm just trailing the 2 minute 9EMA. I did take another piece off into 595 as a key level.

trust your training.

>Now the thing is at 595 so I would had been up 2k

Yes, but this is the core challenge with intraday trading: you didn't know at the time that QQQ would go down to $595. It just as easily could have gone in the other direction. If you set your stop higher and it reversed, you could have broken even, or even lost money. Instead, you're walking away with almost $1k for just a few minutes work.

If you're unsure about your stops, adopt a rigid checklist for choosing stops (Fibonnaci, support/resistance, EMAs, whatever), and stick to it. Over time, you'll be able to see whether your stops are too conservative (you're leaving profit on the table), too aggressive (you're giving profit back), or just right.

Personally, I'd be thrilled with an $800 day. You're much more likely to be successful long term with small, measured wins as opposed to 5-figure moonshot days.

Maybe I’m the minority here but in a day trade my stop loss is my finger.

I’ll sell if I see that I’m wrong. I’ll also take profit at my target if I’m right. Maybe you were missing a price target and a take profit target? If you’re betting on index options you need price target, stop loss and take profit at minimum so that you don’t end up being conflicted/angry with the outcome. As you get more experience you should gain more trust in your price target.

I’ll allow about a 25% loss on 1DTE index options. But there are times when I’d be stopped out if it was mechanical by a couple second price move. The risk doing this is it all moves too fast against me and human behavior has me frozen but I think it’s better and less annoying than what you’re describing.

The stop placement question and the partial exit question are actually separate problems. A 1.50 point stop on QQQ is a function of your read on structure, not a fixed wiggle room number. If 599 was a meaningful level, the stop was defensible. If it was just arithmetic from entry, you were placing risk around your P&L, not around the trade.

The partial exit approach has real merit here. Scaling out at your first target locks in some profit while leaving exposure to the larger move, and it mechanically widens your effective stop on the remainder without changing your initial risk.

Getting stopped out for a gain and then watching it continue is not a mistake. It's variance. The question to audit is whether the stop location had a structural rationale.

My stop loss is at the point where the trade violates my rules.

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