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Old 06-10-2009, 03:13 PM
JForex78 JForex78 is offline
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Hi,

I have over 200 pips from 1 long trade that I entered yesterday at 1.6166.

I have a different problem about position sizing.

I allocate 3% Risk to all my trades. If that is $300, and my stop is 30 pip wide, my position size is calculated as 1 lot.

The problem is that since all stops are not same, the position sizes can differ, lets say 0.2 and 1 lots. I have 200 pips on 0.2 lots, and a 30 pip stop loss on the 1 lot trade. So 200 pips made $400, and just 30 pips lost $300!

My 200 pip win is almost a waste now.

Does anyone else has this problem? How do you handle this?

Thanks,
JForex.

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