One week time frame for stops
Set a stop loss for one week at a time. Make it the standard
deviation of weekly maximal movement in a years history. This means
that 62% of the time, a stock’s price should not move more than a
specific amount either up or down from the last Friday close. After each
week stop prices will get calculated newly and adjusted but only in
the trading direction. This way you get something like a weekly
trailing stop. It is sort of a volatility based stop loss, which should
shrug of small random price fluctuations and is expected to be triggered
on significant adverse movements only.
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