Scale-out planner
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Pyramid planner
Adding to a winner is how trend traders make their biggest trades, and how a winner turns into a loss. Plan each add with its stop, and see what the whole position risks at every step.
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The trade and the adds
The whole position
An example with typical numbers. Change any box to use your own.
A free pyramid. After the last add the stop locks in $66.00: the whole position can no longer lose, apart from gaps and slippage.
| Stage | Average price | Stop | If stopped |
|---|---|---|---|
| First trade 0.05 lots | 4000 | 3985 | -$75 -0.75% |
| After add 1 0.1 lots | 4010 | 4005 | -$50 -0.50% |
| After add 2 0.13 lots | 4016.92 | 4022 | +$66 +0.66% |
- The first trade's risk
- $75.00 (0.75%). A safe pyramid never risks more than this on the whole position.
- Break-even stop for the whole position
- 4016.92, the average price. A stop there turns the rest of the trade into a free ride.
- At your target of 4070
- +$690.00 (+6.90%). Buying all 0.13 lots at the first entry would have risked $195.00 at the first stop; the pyramid risked at most $75.00.
Spread, commission and swap are not included, and a stop is not guaranteed in a fast market (see the gap risk check). Contract sizes are the common MetaTrader ones; check your broker's symbol specification.
Education only, not investment advice. The answer comes from the numbers you typed in, not from your account or the market. Simulated results are hypothetical and have limits: real trading has slippage, gaps, changing results and emotions. Trading leveraged products can lose money quickly, including all of it. Risk warning
Educational only, not financial advice; trading involves risk.
The one rule of adding to a trade
Add only to a trade that is already winning, and only with a stop that keeps the whole position's risk at or under the first trade's. Each add then raises the size without raising what you can lose, and the trade you are right about becomes the trade that matters.
The reverse, adding to a trade that is going against you, lowers the average price and feels like a bargain. It is the same arithmetic as doubling up after a loss: it makes the loss larger in exactly the trades that are wrong.
How to use it
- Plan the adds and their stops before the first entry, and write them into your trading plan.
- Size the first trade with the position size calculator; this page checks the rest.
- Compare with taking profit in parts on the scale-out planner: the two are opposite ways to manage a winner.
Not advice and not a forecast. The answer is arithmetic on the numbers you type, not a view on any market.
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Baroq never holds your money and never trades for you. Educational only, not financial advice; trading involves risk.