Enough to keep everything free.
A yearly number tells you nothing about how it was made. Reckless size can put you up 80% right before it wipes you out. What matters is the process, and whether it survives a full cycle. Judge the timestamped record, not a figure I could just type.
@Sijustan Yes, that's why I'll wait for a closure below the TL before acting. Another confluence for me is that the TL has been touched three times already. The fourth or fifth likely fails to hold. Always probabilities, not certainties.
$USOIL - the supporting trendline broke down, faster than I expected. That closed the runner from the long, and I've flipped short on the same break. We take what the market gives.
Invalidation on the short: daily close back above the HTF descending trendline.
$USOIL moving as expected. Two lines in play, pointing the same way from opposite ends.
The macro descending trendline: we got the fakeout. Price poked above, couldnβt hold, and closed hard down today - that aggressive close is what confirms it as a trap instad of a breakout.
The near-term ascending trendline off the last leg up is still intact, no close below it yet. Thatβs the trigger for the short, and I want a similar kind of aggressive close when it goes, not a wick nipping through.
Invalidation: price reclaiming the macro descending line and closing back above. That undoes the fakeout and the read with it.
@TheTigerPride I got stopped out on Sol too. Oil is a swing trade, so yes, SL is wide and I size accordingly (always 1% risk max). I donβt care about small position sizes as I always have several swing trades (longs and shorts) running on different assets. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
@scrat_attack Thatβs the whole point of using liquidity analysis as a confluence tool: when key levels like OBs are present, we can use tighter stop-losses.
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