停止狩猎策略 (Stop Hunting Strategy)

Let's just cut to the chase here. Now that I think about it, I'm surprised I've never seen this on here before - a thread specifically discussing stop hunting strategy.

Those of you that read my journal know I've taken a real job. It sucks, but they pay me. 'Nuff said.

The only way I've ever made consistent money is to watch my trades, and right when I get that, "gee, I'm in the money pretty good" feeling, TAKE THE PROFIT. Which means that I'm back to square one if my life is consumed by work, getting ready for work, resting from work, etc. because I can't trade when the time is right, I have to trade when I have time, and have very little.

So, the strategy....

I wanna go short the G/J right now. It will probably continue on down. Maybe. If I'm gonna trade, I gotta put the trade on now and leave until this evening. Hmmm. I've been trying quite a few of those, and, over and over, come back to find I was stopped out. I've tried trading this way ever since I knew I'd be working a job, and I lose about 80% of these trades. Hmmm.

So I thought, "if I went in now, where would this trade get stopped out?" And I put a limit sell just this side of there, with a 100 pip stop and a 200 pip t/p. If I don't get the trade, no big deal, I probably wasn't going to trade today anyway. If I get stopped out, no big deal, I would have anyway, if I'd have put the trade on now.

It's kind of a gamble, really. "Experiment" might be a better word. Should experiment on demo, probably. But it's a very small trade, and we'll see what happens.

I know most all of you have thought about this kind of thing at one time or another, and I welcome any comments. Maybe together we can come up with something of merit.