3 Trading Strategies Professional Traders Use to Maximize Profits

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Profits usually come as a result of sticking to and committing to your trading strategy. Challenges begin to happen when you stray from what you know works in order to

try and improve your original trading system. Today we'll look at the top 3 trading strategies when trading Contracts for Difference or CFDs.

1. High probability setups with short profit targets

The professional trader, Mark D Cook, mentioned at a recent seminar in Australia that if you are not winning more than 75% of the time you'll never make it as a

professional trader. Whilst there are other components to success, he does make a very good point. The most common trading strategy employed by successful trader is to

identify a high probability set up and couple that with an aggressive profit exit strategy that captures short term gains. For example, you might have a entry criteria

that easily captures 15 points on average but you set your profit target at 6 points.

2. Adding to winning positions

Many people think all trades should lead to profit but you'll find the most successful medium term traders on win 40-55% of the time. The difference between an amateur

and a professional, when trading short to medium term trading systems, is their ability to maximum their cash on a trade when it's winning. The Turtles, under the

watchful eye o f Richard Dennis and Bill Eckardt, had a way to add to their huge winners up to 4 times. Very powerful. In order to maximize this strategy you will need

to identify your R multiples which will be saved for another article.

3. Mechanical trailing profit stops

Knowing when to take profits can be the most mentally draining part of any trading system. Its not unusual to start trying to let profits run that the markets starts

retracing and wiping out all your open profits. The way to overcome this emotional rollercoaster is to build mechanical trailing stops that maximize your profits on

winning trades ...




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