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Comparison is the thief of joy.

You did good. You are profitable and up about 10x, take a moment to appreciate the success you are having with your current strategy. The issue is that you cannot see the future and we have an irrational and erratic world leader who is causing market volatility that we haven't seen in a long time. Staying in positions any longer than you need to can turn a green account red literally overnight. Since you are trading options, any overnight news could severally hurt you.

If you want to be successful in the long haul, stick to your strategy and avoid holding overnight. You are doing fantastic. Keep it up. You are not losing money by not holding, you are protecting your capital from unforseen market risk in a high volatility environment.

Market is very volatile these days. It can go both ways at any time. All it takes some post by mr. Trump and market will flush again. You went it, took your profit, went out. Did not chase. Nice work!

Market brings new opportunities every day. I am in a similar spot - covered most of my positions for downside protection and missed out on huge rally. But that is system working as intended - because at the time of making trading decision my sentiment was cautious, not too bullish. I was wrong, but I made the right decision with the information I had at that time.

We can NEVER get the full move, and if we think we can yes it hurts.

Instead, what I do is have fixed TP points - rules that tell me NOW is the time to get out and I DONT CARE where price goes after that.

For example, I TP1 at 1:1 and TP2 at 2.5R. That is it, most days I miss 90% of the move but I dont care.

But these rules only come from our data, ideally hundreds of profitable trades, that tell you based off of your model, asset etc, what is the IDEAL take profit point that gives us the most profit over the most trades?

If we try to go for High R trades that automatically reduces win rate, and increases the max # of consecutive losses - can your psychology (or account) handle 12 losses in a row (with 42% win rate and 3:1 that is statistically likely in a year)?

And if we CANT take profits when I rules say to do that, then we are being influenced by our emotions (FOMO) and therefore need to work on that aspect of psychology.

Good luck!

Saber hasta cuando quedarse es conocer el futuro, si su plan de trading le dice que debe salir de una operación y el precio siguió su dirección escojida, ni siquiera se ponga a hacer cuentas, ya ganó lo suyo y no se mortifique por lo que pudo haber sido y no fue.

I never take longs unless price is over the 21 Ema, and never take shorts unless price is below the 21 Ema

When candles start opening above or below respectfully, it's time to exit.