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Long & Short Position Tool

Long & Short Position Tool

Plan your trades by visualizing entry, target, stop-loss, and risk-to-reward relationships.

What It Does

The Long & Short Position Tool helps traders visually plan a potential trade before entering it. It allows you to map out the entry price, profit target, stop-loss area, and the relationship between potential reward and risk.

How to Use It

Use the Long Position Tool when planning a bullish trade and the Short Position Tool when planning a bearish trade. Place the tool around the price area where you are considering an entry, then adjust the profit-target and stop-loss zones to match your trade plan.

Use the tool to study:

  • • Entry price
  • • Profit target
  • • Stop-loss level
  • • Distance to target
  • • Distance to stop
  • • Risk-to-reward relationship
  • • Potential position planning
  • • Whether the trade setup fits your risk rules

For a long setup, the target is normally above the entry and the stop is below the entry. For a short setup, the target is normally below the entry and the stop is above the entry.

Use the Long & Short Position Tool as a planning and risk-management aid. It does not predict whether a trade will win or lose.

Video Lesson

A video lesson demonstrating the Long & Short Position Tool in action will be added soon. Check back later for step-by-step examples of how to use this tool effectively in your chart analysis.

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