Small Loss on SPY

None of my OADs made it through the filters this morning.

Near 10 o'clock, I did try to buy support in SPY, and I used a one-minute breakout as the entry.  So I bought at the first yellow arrow (there's a red line also, which shows the break of the prior candle high).


Unfortunately, the next candle broke below the entry candle's low (the second yellow arrow and red line), so I was stopped out for a $70 loss, which is certainly acceptable on ten contracts.

The one-minute candle trail has been working nicely for me.  But maybe I should have given this trade a bit more room.  It definitely would have hit my profit targets if I had.


Still, I'm very happy with the limited losses this software has delivered.  In fact, I've been analyzing my manual trades of 2020, and it's become quite clear to me that I would be having a stellar year if I could do a better job of limiting my losses.

Look for a very illuminating post on this subject as soon as I have time to get to it.

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