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The Blog of Adam H Grimes

I teach people to make money in financial markets.

Trailing stops: 9 ideas you can use today

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:09/25/2018
  • Post category:Risk Management/Technical Patterns
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Trade management is at least as important as trade entry, and maybe a lot more important. There are two main tools for trading management: profit targets and stops. From these…

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Reader question: what do I do when I miss the move?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:02/13/2017
  • Post category:Psychology/Readers Questions
  • Post comments:3 Comments

Dimitar sent a question, and I bet he’s not the only trader who struggles with this: Hi Adam, I am part time private Trader. I read regularly your blog articles…

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Reader question: how active with exits?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:07/25/2016
  • Post category:Readers Questions
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Let's go to the mailbag for a question. Reader Anthony asks: I have a bit of an internal psychological dilemma going on at the moment. I place my stops usually…

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Exits: know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:03/29/2016
  • Post category:Trading tools
  • Post comments:14 Comments

We all focus a lot of attention, perhaps too much attention, on where to buy and sell a market, on where to enter trades. Today, let's spend some time looking…

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Chart of the Day: Stops on Treasuries

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:12/09/2013
  • Post category:Chart of the Day
  • Post comments:1 Comment

The chart of the 30 Year Treasury futures shows an important formation. First, we are short Treasuries, (in my published research) and have been for a while; the trade has…

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We Have Met the Enemy…

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/05/2013
  • Post category:General Comments/Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders/Psychology
  • Post comments:1 Comment

It is a simple choice: continue to be angry at the way the market moves, or align with it

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Trading the Unexpected

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/31/2013
  • Post category:Breakout/General Comments/Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders/Volatility
  • Post comments:3 Comments

A pattern in volatility can sometimes give a directional tilt to the market, but, more importantly, how do we know when a trade is wrong and what do we do about it?

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Reader Question: Intraday Position Sizing?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/24/2013
  • Post category:General Comments/Individual Traders
  • Post comments:0 Comments

A reader asks how to quickly calculate position sizes for intraday trades.

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