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Your strategy isn’t actually the problem the issue lies in your tolerance for uncertainty.

Most people think letting profitable positions run is a matter of discipline, but in reality, it’s about accepting the fact that unrealized profits aren’t yours yet.

These points have been very helpful to me in my trading:

1. Set your take-profit level before entering the trade.

If you wait until you’re in profit to make a decision, your emotions will always get the better of you.

2. Close positions in increments; don’t go all-in or all-out

Closing positions in increments reduces emotional stress without disrupting the trade

3. Separate “profit and loss” from “decision quality”

A good trade may give back some profits, but that doesn’t mean it was a bad decision

4. Rely on structure, not gut feelings

Take-profit levels, higher highs and lows, moving averages any objective indicators

If you feel like you should close the position, you’re already a step too late

For me, the real turning point was:

I stopped trying to protect profits and started focusing on executing the trading process

Once I did that, holding onto profitable positions became much easier

Take your fixed profit and trade the next day, your account will grow exponentially
- most people taking profits at multiple levels or not having a fixed profit, blow their account and still trying to day trader after many years and complaining

take off 10% every 25c or 50c or at even numbers

Try taking partial profits as the market goes higher. Let's say sell 1/3 at the first target and so on.... Or sell 50% at a decent target that gives you a good cushion. But you must re-calculate your R: R for this new strategy... For me, the best book on Trading Psychology is "Trading in the Zone" by Mark Douglas and there are a lot of videos online about his teachings

You have to scale out of your winners. Thats really the only way ive found for myself. I was cutting my entire winner full size for a long time early. Eventually started scaling out, sometimes its worse for the trade, but overall seems like it allows me to catch the bigger move, and when it does work, it works great.

Take profits with your stop loss

i used to do the exact same thing

i was fine taking the loss, but as soon as it went green i wanted to lock it in right away

for me it came back to how i was getting in

if i got in a bit early or felt like i was chasing it, i never really trusted the trade so i’d cut it quick

the ones where i got in at a clean spot just felt different, i didn’t feel that same urge to close it right away

wasn’t perfect but it made a big difference

I set consequently RR 1:2. I don't chance after take profit is hitted, because it's too stressful for me. In some exceptional cases like today - extremely bullish - I take RR 1:3. That's it. I'm fine leaving something on the table. Better safe than sorry

The saying “cut losers short and let winners run” came from long term investing, not trading. People get the wrong idea applying it to trading thinking they need to somehow maximize how much of the move they capture, as well as cut trades before invalidation.

In trading, that saying would simply translate to something like “manage risk (SL) and let trades run to target (TP/trailed SL)”.

Many traders think they need to capture “that one big trade” to make money, but really attempting to do so usually results in giving profits back and making losses bigger. Consistent modest wins beats trying for home runs, especially in the world of compounding.

For me, once I've tested a setup that works and I know the win rate of it, then I just plug-and-play the right R:R for the day. If it's a choppy day, I use 1:1.5 or 1:2. If it's a trendy day, I use 1:3.

Those are generalized though; react to what the chart shows you, not what you think it should do. Also, and I did this a lot to myself, don't beat yourself up if you sell early - sometimes you have to! Negative thinking kills trading; just journal, remove what isn't working and keep what is. Rinse/repeat.