DislikedWell, let's talk about numbers (and the fallacies) .
I suppose that every winning trade will give you 10:1. But your profit will not be 10:1 but 5.5:1 because you take half of the profits after 1:1. .
So 5.5 * 13 = 71.5 which is smaller than 78, the usual loss.
And that's without considering spread and slippage.
The trailing to EMA or SMA is not a good idea anyway. You will get out every time after the retracement instead of profiting from it. It is like buying on support and selling at resistance.Ignored
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