Exit strategies for 1m trading?

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What are the best exit strategies for trading 1m chart? In short - how to not exit if you shouldn't.


The first one that comes to my mind is a return from overbought/oversold territory, but sometimes such return doesn't even mark a retracement and the trend keeps going.

So is there a way to tell the difference between rally-ending return of RSI from overbought/oversold and just typical RSI zig-zagging? Besides, at trend endings RSI often does not reach 30/70.

I was also thinking to get some confirmation from Bollinger Bands (or even better Keltner Channel) - if bar close was not outside bands, then don't treat RSI's trip into overbought as rally-ending.


Any other suggestions? (But not "exit after 6-10 pips to stay safe").

 
PeterKalw:

What are the best exit strategies for trading 1m chart? In short - how to not exit if you shouldn't.


The first one that comes to my mind is a return from overbought/oversold territory, but sometimes such return doesn't even mark a retracement and the trend keeps going.

So is there a way to tell the difference between rally-ending return of RSI from overbought/oversold and just typical RSI zig-zagging? Besides, at trend endings RSI often does not reach 30/70.

I was also thinking to get some confirmation from Bollinger Bands (or even better Keltner Channel) - if bar close was not outside bands, then don't treat RSI's trip into overbought as rally-ending.


Any other suggestions? (But not "exit after 6-10 pips to stay safe").

It depends on the degree of volatility of the Symbol.. That's why it is hard to deal with 1M charts.

The question you have to ask yourself is (in the first place): Why am I using 1min timeframes?

 
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@Pezhman Zamani I don't think so. I'm trading with the trend and I'd like to jump off, when I suspect the trend will reverse any minute. This suspicion is good to exit the trade, but not good enough to enter the opposite one - it would be against-the-trend or bottom/top-catching, which is deadly as everybody knows. Which is not what I'm trying to achieve.

 
PeterKalw:

Do not double post.

I have deleted your other topic.

 

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Which strategy is best to close the position?

Sergey Golubev, 2013.05.29 08:03

If you have a strategy so exit should be part of it. Strategy without exit is not a strategy.

What the people are using for exit?

  • Parabolic
  • overbough/oversold levels (stochastic, demark and so on)
  • support/resistance level (povit, fibo and so on)
  • opposite signal to enter
  • openning the other trade on same direction with increased lot size (martingale)
  • openning the other trade on same direction with decreased lot size but with increased take provit value (anti-martingale)


I think - closing on overbough/oversold (stochastic etc), support/resistance (povit/fibo) and simple trailing stop are most popular for the people who consider about "let the profit run"



 

Best strategy is enter in the minute when the opportunity is right (timing), and close in the hour when the trend has ended (trend).

The indicator you used on the minute time frame needs to have time period compression and band/channel numbers for the hour for example. 

You would need to do more testing to find out the numbers, which will not be an exact science, but an art.

 
Thanks Sergey.
Sergey Golubev:

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I'm looking for some indicator or mix of indicators to help me with it. Like I already mentioned, RSI-14 (close) 70/30 are the first thought, but they are not ideal because:

1. sometimes RSI-14 crosses 70/30 and quickly returns and the market just keeps going. So the signal turns out to be false.

2. sometimes market reverses without RSI-14 reaching 70/30 at all! This is especially very common at the ends of trends, when RSI starts to show weakness.


For both of these situations RSI-14 return from 70/30 is just wrong, therefore I'm looking to somehow enhance this information:

ad.1: how to determine that 70/30 cross should be ignored?

ad.2: how to notice that market has reversed without reaching 70/30.

 
If you use a one-minute chart (or two-minute or five-minute), a new price bar forms when the time period elapses.
 
oliver1007:
If you use a one-minute chart (or two-minute or five-minute), a new price bar forms when the time period elapses.

How is this referring to my question? Could you explain?

 
1m chart trading is suicide :)
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