Profit-taking depends on trading style: short-term traders should take profits often, while long-term trend followers should hold for big profits. Using the average true range from entry is a popular ...

Discover how to select the right volatility stop for your trading strategy, helping you protect investments and maximize profits with strategic methods and insights.

Volatility is important for position sizing, determining risk, calculating stops and profit-targets, and rebalancing portfolios. Average true range is a useful measure for position sizing in futures ...

In this article we will test a trading system based on a trend-following breakout logic, applied to one of the world's most famous and most traded indexes, the Nasdaq. Since we are trading the CME ...

First introduced in 1978 in the book New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems by J. Welles Wilder, the average true range (ATR) indicator has long been a valuable tool for technical traders of all ...