Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Pending order

If this original setup fails, I'll take the long signal. Calculating what my equity will be at that time and then figuring out the position size is a simple matter. After the loss on this trade, equity would be at $73.38. I multiply that by 50, the leverage factor, to get $3669 and divide by the entry price 1.4170, which gives 2589 units. I'll round that down to 2550, and that's the size on the next order.

Pending order: Long 2550 EUR/USD at 1.4170
Initial stop: 1.4146
Initial exposure: 24 pips, $6.12 or 8.34%

Current Closed Equity: $80.38
Current position: Short 2800 EUR/USD at 1.4144
Current exposure: $7.00 or 8.71%

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