I personally think that it's too arbitrary as your R:R then gets very skewed for some pairs. What I have been doing is using the ADR - and admittedly with not a huge sample size so far it looks reasonable and stops me putting too tight a stop. MPTM can do this automatically I think but I haven't set it up yet.Gertje wrote:
What do you guy's think about à fixed SL of say 200 pips?
With 0,01 lots per $1.000 balance that's 2% appr.
With 0,01 lots per $2.000 balance that's 1% appr.
Etc, etc.
One can set MPTM to add the SL and never forget it anymore.
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EDIT: This probably ties in reasonably with sponn's 80-140 pip range.
So if you want to trade fixed lots you could just take an average ADR and use that to calculate a 1% or whatever lot size for your balance and then actually use ADR for the SL. You would risk slightly more on some trades and slightly less on others but your R:R would be a bit more "even".
My view with this was that, as I have been doing something very similar to Jemook and using the H1 CSS, if a pair moves 1 * ADR against me then the H1 CSS will have changed colour anyway so really it is just a failsafe for me.
Cheers,
Dave.