{"id":10601,"date":"2011-03-29T14:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T18:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=10601"},"modified":"2021-05-06T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:28:29","slug":"the-shake-gman-the-newbs-and-etp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-shake-gman-the-newbs-and-etp","title":{"rendered":"The Shake, GMan, the Newbs and ETP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>50.50 was the important technical level we were hawking in ETP. Stock In Play. We have our level. ETP\u00a0opens below, does tons of volume just below the level, and then holds above 50.50. Long right? Easy right?<\/p>\n<p>Well if only trading were that easy. Yes we want to be long. But can we stay in the long while responsibly controlling our risk? This is always our challenge. And we must control our risk before anything else. So some newer traders set their stops below 50.50. This is the right area for these stops.<\/p>\n<p>But there was more than one way to set this stop. There was a way that gave back all your profits. And then there was the GMan way, where you profited handsomely in ETP.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I&#8217;m not going to tell you this is the easiest trade. GMan has thousands of hours more of screen time than most. But if the 50c area is your stop there is more than one option than hard stop 49c. Since ETP spent so much time above 50c, and since 50c was an area where so much volume was done, there was another option. You could set the stop for if ETP held below 50c.<\/p>\n<p>This does offer more risk for some trades. But in this case it kept you out of the temporary shake below 50c. Ask if I employ this selling stop for this pattern 1000 times will I make more money? Amazing Andy set his stop for 49c because he feared a quick drop to 35c. Good analysis. This was possible. But GMan calculated that this was remote. Most times he would be able to sell into the next upmove and get the same 49c hard stop price. And he would be able to stay in the stock if it showed the shake. So he choose his exit strategy of waiting for selling below the 50c.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just an exit technique for you to consider. This is not trading 101. This is advanced trading stuff. So decide for yourself what is the best exit strategy for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mike Bellafiore<br \/>\nAuthor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1301422742&amp;sr=8-1\">One Good Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/theshake1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10605\" title=\"theshake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/theshake1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/theshake1.png 841w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/theshake1-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50.50 was the important technical level we were hawking in ETP. Stock In Play. We have our level. ETP\u00a0opens below, does tons of volume just below the level, and then holds above 50.50. Long right? Easy right? Well if only trading were that easy. Yes we want to be long. But can we stay in the long while responsibly controlling &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-shake-gman-the-newbs-and-etp\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":10605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30,1687,81,1193,653,1354,1349],"class_list":["post-10601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-prop-trading","tag-prop-trading-desk","tag-smb-training","tag-trader-education","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-mentor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Shake, GMan, the Newbs and ETP | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-shake-gman-the-newbs-and-etp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Shake, GMan, the Newbs and ETP | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"50.50 was the important technical level we were hawking in ETP. 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