Possible mistakes you may make when it comes to stop loss issues
As a foreign exchange investor, there are four common pitfalls in using stop loss orders
One is overconfidence in personal judgment, or believing that funds have strong risk resistance and disdain setting stop losses. You should know,foreign exchange marketEvery wave of big waves must be above a thousand points. The US dollar/Japanese yen has gone through a decade long period from 264 to 79, with a huge wave of nearly 20000 points. Its starting point is only 20 years ago. Who can say that history will not repeat itself? If encountering such a big wave, based on a leverage effect of 500 times, the loss per order would be 1.85 million yen. Excuse me, does anyone consider themselves to have such financial resources? Without setting a stop loss and letting the market change, for investors, it is like rowing a wooden boat across the sea, and its danger is self-evident. Such investors will eventually be punished by the market.
Secondly, there is a stop loss in mind, but there is no stop loss on the market. Such investors often worry that meaningless stop losses will result in unnecessary losses. But the weakness of human nature often causes these people to hesitate and refuse to accept losses when the market trend approaches their stop loss point, and only be forced to close their positions and exit when they can no longer bear it. Often, the losses incurred far exceed expectations.
The third is to randomly use a data point as a stop loss point. The setting of stop loss points can be said to be one of the biggest differences between professional traders and ordinary investors. Professional traders know how to use various technical means and place stop loss points reasonably according to the different characteristics of each currency. Avoid hitting stop loss orders when the market trend has not reversed: try to minimize losses when the market trend reverses,CXM ForexThus achieving the ultimate goal of stop loss. Using a random amount or point value as a stop loss point often results in hitting the stop loss, which means continuing in the predetermined direction and causing unnecessary losses.
The fourth is the hesitation caused by calculating small losses. Customers who experience this situation are entirely due to poor psychological resilience. Knowing the direction is wrong, but always hoping to cut losses at a lower price. The result is that the trend never returns, and the desired price always exists in the past, leading to losses far greater than expected.
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