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Protecting Trading Profits: What to Do When You’re Well Ahead of Target

Protecting trading profits

Picture the situation. You are a pair trader with a 2% monthly target, roughly 25% a year. You have just posted three months in a row above +4%. It is August. You sit at +27% for the year, and you have already cleared your annual goal with four months still to run. So what is the correct course of action? The honest answer starts with a warning. Protecting trading profits at this stage is mostly a test of psychology, not strategy. This moment is more dangerous than it feels.

Being well ahead pulls you two ways at once.

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