 But we have to understand the long term and when we when we use I think for for trying to line But you want to look at at least three timeframes a longer term time frame just to say what's the overall Environment that we're in and then the secondary time frame intermediate. That's where we want to start to look at it So first swing trade for instance, I'll look at a daily time frame to say okay. Here's what this stock is doing overall Here's where the you know institutions are involved in that then I'll look to maybe a 30 minute time frame or 15 minute That goes back two to three weeks, and I'll look at that and say okay Here's where the key levels of support and resistance have been over the last two to three weeks I'll put some anchored volume weighted average price levels in there to give me some Objective look at the trends and then I'll go down to a five minute or two minute or even one minute If it's early in the morning to really fine-tune and get my entry into that stock So I can avoid the unnecessary pullbacks. Hopefully but again, I have my stop So my stop is always in the same place It's never at a different place My initial protective stop is never at a place that's different and it's not two percent five percent seven percent eight percent or any Other random percentage number. So I'm making a point there is that Percentage stops really mean nothing. They're only significant to you the market doesn't care about your two percent your five percent You're eight percent or whatever you were told it's it's good that you have a stop and it's better than no stop at all But for me as soon as I buy that first little higher high My stop was below the most recent and relevant higher low for that time frame Because I'm buying what I think is an emerging uptrend So if I buy right at the onset of that momentum and then the stock runs up and goes a little bit I take a quick throw it off, but then it comes crashing down and what violates that Prior low. Well, what happened to my definition of trend higher highs and higher lows? So if it breaks that higher low, I am out I'll take my loss and move on not really think about it I might look at and say what did I miss here or something like that? But I won't obsess over it and say wow, how could I've been so stupid because if you have the light process? Taking stops and taking losses It's just part of the program and get used to it if you don't otherwise you're gonna find yourself stubbornly adding to them and You know thinking how can the market be so long you start pulling up the news and saying hey What's the news on this company if you're looking at annuals report, you know you're dead So what we want to do is say, you know instead look at it Did I click ahead by accident? So the short-term timeframe is for fine-tuning or entry and on the short side It's the opposite if I short that first lower low my stop goes above the most recent and relevant higher I'm sorry lower high so and then as the stock breaks down It bounces a little bit and it breaks down again Well soon it starts to break down again my stop goes above that most recent high not the prior one So I just did down and listen to the debt listen to the market Let the market tell me if I'm a trend trader for even the one minute time frames throughout the day Well as long as making that pattern of higher highs and higher lows as soon as it starts breaking that next higher high Raise your stop up underneath the most recent and relevant higher low Whether it's on a one minute timeframe a ten minute to the timeframe that you were trading