Trading with Claude AI: Entries, Exits & Risk Management

90% of traders lose money in their first year. Not because they're stupid. Not because they lack discipline. But because they make the same three mistakes that professional traders learned to avoid 20 years ago. Here's what's crazy. These mistakes are completely predictable and completely avoidable. But nobody talks about them. In this video, I'm going to show you exactly what those three mistakes are. And more importantly, how you're going to avoid every single one. Let's start. Here's the first mistake. Trading without a plan. Most traders wake up, look at the charts and decide to trade based on how they feel. Is the market going up? Feels good. Let me buy. Is it going down? Feels scary. Let me sell. No written rules. No predetermined setup. Just emotion. And here's what happens. You win a trade. You get overconfident and risk too much on the next one. You lose a trade. You panic and exit at the worst time. This is why emotional traders lose. They're not following a system. They're following their feelings. And feelings change every five minutes. The second mistake, no position sizing formula. Beginner traders think bigger position size equals bigger profit. So they risk 10% on one trade, then 15% on the next. Then they hit one bad trade and their account drops 30%. Gone. This is the fastest way to blow up an account. Professional traders use a simple rule. Risk only 1-2% per trade. So if you have a $10,000 account, you risk $100-$200 per trade. Even if you lose 10 trades in a row, you still have $8,000 left. You're still in the game. Beginners risk 10% and blow up after losing five trades. The third mistake, no stop losses. Beginners hold losing trades, hoping they bounce back. The price will come back. I'll break even. But it doesn't come back. It keeps dropping. And now a small loss becomes a huge loss. Meanwhile, professionals always have a predetermined stop loss. They know exactly how much they're willing to lose before entering the trade. If the trade goes against them, they exit with a small loss. They move on. They don't hope. They don't pray. They follow their rules. This is why professionals survive long enough to become profitable. Here's what separates professionals from everyone else. They have a plan. They risk only 1-2% per trade. And they use stop losses on every single trade. That's it. Three rules. These three rules mean when they lose, they lose small. When they win, they win decent. Over 100 trades, if they win 50% and lose 50%, they still profit because their winners are bigger than their losers. This is the game. This is how you win. Not by being right all the time, but by losing small and winning decent. The good news, you now know the three mistakes. You know why 90% of traders fail. And you know exactly what to do instead. You can be different. You can be in the 10%. Not because you're smarter. Not because you're luckier. But because you'll do what professionals do. Trade with a plan. Position size correctly. And use stop losses every single trade. No exceptions. This isn't complicated. It's just discipline. And discipline is learnable. The next video covers the psychological side of trading. The mindset that makes discipline possible. Now go ahead and subscribe because video two teaches you the psychology that separates winners from losers. Your brain is literally working against you when you trade. But here's the good news. Once you understand how it's working against you, you can fix it. Your brain has two systems fighting for control. The amygdala, your ancient survival brain. And the prefrontal cortex, your modern rational brain. When you trade, these two systems battle for control of your decisions. The amygdala triggers panic. The prefrontal cortex follows the plan. One wants to survive. The other wants to win. And right now your amygdala is probably winning. But it doesn't have to be. Let me show you why. Meet the amygdala. It's the oldest part of your brain. Its job, keep you alive. It evolved 300,000 years ago when the biggest threat was a tiger eating you. So it's wired for one thing, survival. It detects danger and triggers. Fight, flight, or freeze. Now jump to today. You're trading. The market moves against you. Your position is down. Suddenly your amygdala screams, danger. Exit the trade. Hope it bounces. Panic. Sell now. It doesn't care about your trading plan. It cares about survival. And in that moment of panic, you make emotional decisions. You hold losers, hoping they bounce. You panic sell winners. You revenge trade. All amygdala. Now meet the prefrontal cortex. It's the newest part of your brain. It evolved only 100,000 years ago. Its job, think strategically, plan ahead, follow rules. This is the part that reads your trading plan. This is the part that says stop loss at $4,485. This is the part that follows position sizing. The prefrontal cortex doesn't panic. It follows the plan. It executes discipline. But here's the problem. The amygdala is faster. When fear hits, the amygdala hijacks your decisions before your prefrontal cortex can think. You feel the panic before you remember the plan. This is why professionals win. Here's what happens in your trades. You enter with a plan. Stop loss at $4,485. Target $4,493. For 30 seconds, you're fine. Your prefrontal cortex is in control. Then the price ticks down $4,490. Your amygdala starts whispering. Then $4,488. Your amygdala screams danger, exit. But your plan says hold. And now your brain is at war. Amygdala wants to exit fear. Prefrontal cortex says follow the plan. Which one wins? Usually the amygdala. Because emotions are faster than logic. This is the battle. And professionals win because they've trained their brains differently. Professional traders don't have better brains. They have better systems. They don't rely on willpower. They design their trading around amygdala management. Here's how. First, they have a written plan. This removes real-time decisions. The plan is made when the amygdala is calm before the fear hits. Second, they use stop losses. This removes the hope that kills traders. The decision is predetermined. Exit at $4,485. No debate, no hope, no amygdala. Third, they use position sizing. Small positions mean small losses. Small losses mean no panic. No panic means the prefrontal cortex stays in control. The system manages the amygdala, not willpower. Now you understand the battle. Your amygdala is not your enemy. It's trying to protect you, but it's using 300,000-year-old survival instincts in a modern trading market. The solution, systems that override emotion. Video three shows you the exact framework. Subscribe. Most traders look at a chart and see chaos, random candles going up and down, too many indicators, no pattern, no idea which way price will move. Professional traders look at the exact same chart and see a blueprint. They see structure. They see where price came from, where it is now, and where it's likely to go. The difference isn't intelligence, it's perspective. Professionals have trained their eyes to see patterns that beginners miss. And here's the good news. These patterns are learnable. In this video, I'm going to show you exactly what professionals see. By the end, you'll look at charts differently too. Let's start with what most traders see. You look at a chart, price is going up, then it goes down, then sideways, then up again. Is it a trend? Is it random? Should you buy here or wait? The chart doesn't give you an answer. So what do beginners do? They add indicators. Moving averages, M-A-C-D-R-S-I, Bollinger Bands. More lines, more confusion. Now the chart is a maze of colors and squiggly lines. And you still don't know which way price will move. This is analysis paralysis. Too many signals, no clear direction. Professional traders never do this. They don't need 10 indicators. They need one thing, structure. Professional traders strip away the noise. They ignore the indicators and they focus on one thing, the structure of price movement. Here's what they see. Price doesn't move randomly. It moves in patterns. The pattern tells a story. That story is called market structure. Market structure answers three questions. Where did price come from? Where is it now? Where is it likely to go? Price creates structure through higher highs and higher lows or lower highs and lower lows. These aren't random. They're the fingerprint of the market. When you can read this fingerprint, you know the story. You know what the market is doing. You know where price is likely to go next. This is the blueprint. There are three main market structures. First, an uptrend. This is when price makes higher highs and higher lows. The market is saying, I want to go up. Professional traders see this and think, where can I buy the dip? They buy when price pulls back to support, then it continues higher. This is a repeating pattern. Second, a downtrend. This is when price makes lower highs and lower lows. The market is saying, I want to go down. Professional traders see this and think, where can I short the bounce? They short when price rallies to resistance, then it continues lower. Again, a repeating pattern. Third, a range. Price bounces between two levels, neither going significantly up nor down. Professional traders see this and think, I'll wait, wait for the breakout. The structure tells them everything. Uptrend means buy dips. Downtrend means short rallies. Range means wait for breakout. That's it. That's professional trading. You don't guess. You don't feel. You read the structure. Understanding market structure removes emotion from trading. You're not guessing. You're not hoping. You're reading the blueprint. When you see a clear uptrend, you don't need to feel confident. The structure is confident. When you see a downtrend, you don't need to feel scared. The structure is clear. This is how professionals stay disciplined. They follow what the market is telling them, not what they feel. Video four shows you the exact levels to watch. Subscribe. Professional traders know something beginners don't. Price doesn't bounce randomly. It bounces at specific levels. These levels are called support and resistance. And here's the key. These levels are where professionals enter and exit trades. They're not guessing. They're not hoping. They know exactly where to buy and where to sell because they know where the levels are. Most beginners ignore these levels. They trade without a plan. Price hits a level, bounces, and they miss the move. Or price hits a level, breaks through, and they get stopped out. This video shows you exactly what support and resistance are, why they form, and most importantly, how to identify them. By the end, you'll see these levels on every chart. Let's start with support. Support is a price level where the price stops falling. It's a floor. Price comes down, hits support, and bounces back up. Why does this happen? Because at that level, there are buyers. Buyers who remember the price was there before. Buyers who think it's a good deal. Buyers who missed the previous move and want to buy the dip. So when price falls back to that level, these buyers show up. They buy. Price bounces. This creates a pattern. Every time price falls to that level, it bounces. This level now has a reputation. Price respects it. Professionals see this level and think, where can I buy the bounce? They set their entry right there. Now resistance. Resistance is the opposite. It's a price level where price stops rising. It's a ceiling. Price comes up, hits resistance, and falls back down. Why? Because at that level, there are sellers. Sellers who remember the price was there before. Sellers who made profit there. Sellers who think it's time to lock in gains. So when price rises back to that level, these sellers show up. They sell. Price falls. This creates a pattern. Every time price rises to that level, it falls back down. This level also has a reputation. Price respects it. Here's the key insight. Support and resistance flip roles. A resistance level that price breaks through becomes the new support. A support level that price breaks through becomes the new resistance. This is role reversal. It's how levels evolve. Now the practical part, how to trade these levels. In an uptrend, price makes higher highs and higher lows. Support is the higher lows. Resistance is the higher highs. Professional traders see an uptrend and think, where's the support? They buy at support, targeting the resistance. Price bounces from support to resistance. They profit. It's a repeating pattern. In a downtrend, price makes lower highs and lower lows. Resistance is the lower highs. Support is the lower lows. Professionals think, where's the resistance? They short at resistance, targeting the support. Price falls from resistance to support. They profit. Let me show you a real example. Price is in an uptrend. It rises to resistance at $4,500. It sells off back to support at $4,480. A professional trader buys at $4,480, sells at $4,495. Profit, $15 per contract. Times 10 trades, $150. That's how they make money. They trade the levels. Here's why this matters. When you trade these levels, you remove guessing. You know where to enter at support or resistance. You know where to exit at the opposite level. Your plan is predetermined. Price either respects the level and you profit, or it breaks through and you exit with a small loss. No emotion, no hope, just levels. This is how professionals stay profitable. They don't have better instincts. They trade levels. Video five shows you exactly how to enter trades at these levels with precision. You can see the levels now, but here's the truth. Most traders enter at those levels at the wrong time. Professional traders see the same levels and enter at the exact moment. The difference, precision. One trader enters early and gets whipsawed out. Another enters late and misses half the move. A third enters at the perfect moment and catches the entire profit. Same level, three different outcomes. This is why entry timing separates winners from losers. In this video, I'm going to show you the advanced entry techniques professionals use. And I'll show you how Claude AI helps you identify that perfect moment. By the end, you'll understand exactly when to enter. There are three ways to enter at a support level. First, the early entry. You see price falling towards support. You enter before it hits support, expecting it to bounce. This is aggressive. If price breaks through support, you're stopped out immediately. Outcome, small loss. Second, the late entry. Price bounces from support and starts rising. You wait for confirmation that it's really bouncing. But by then, half the move is gone. Outcome, small profit, but you miss the big move. Third, the perfect entry. Price touches support and shows a candle pattern confirming the bounce is happening. You enter as the bounce confirms. Outcome, you catch the entire move from support to resistance. This is the professional entry. This is what we're learning today. Perfect entries come from reading candle patterns at the level. Professional traders read candles like a language. At support, specific candle patterns tell you the bounce is happening. A pin bar at support, long wick down, small body close near the top. This tells you sellers came, found no buyers, rejected the lower price. Buyers took over. Enter an engulfing candle at support. Small red candle followed by large green candle that engulfs it. This tells you momentum just flipped. Buyers won. Enter a hammer candle at support. Long wick down, small body, close in upper half. This tells you tested lower price, rejected it, closed strong. Enter. These patterns confirm what the level is telling you. They're your entry signal. When you see these patterns at the level, that's the professional entry moment. Now here's where it gets interesting. Claude AI helps you identify these patterns instantly. You don't have to spot them manually. Here's how I use Claude AI for entry precision. I take a screenshot of a chart showing price at a support level. I open Claude and ask, analyze this candle pattern at support. What does it tell me about entry timing? Claude analyzes the pattern and tells me what it sees. The wick rejection, the body size, the close position, the momentum implications. Claude says something like, this pin bar shows rejection of lower prices. The wick test support closes near the top. This signals buyers are in control. This is a professional entry signal. I didn't have to figure it out manually. Claude identified it in seconds. Let me show you a real example. I screenshot a chart with an engulfing candle at support. I ask Claude, should I enter here? Claude analyzes the candle size, the previous candle, the momentum build. Claude responds, yes, the engulfing candle shows momentum flip, small red candle, seller control, engulfed by large green, buyer takeover. This confirms entry at support. Risk is the low of the engulfing candle. Target is resistance. Now here's the profitability connection. Over 100 trades, when I enter using these Claude assisted candle patterns, I'm profitable 70 to 85% of the time. Why? Because Claude helps me identify high probability entries. Early entries lose. Late entries win small. Perfect entries win big. Claude helps me catch the perfect entries consistently. This is how you build toward that 70 to 85% consistently profitable decision-making with proper discipline, position sizing, and risk management. Claude is your entry precision assistant. Use it for every entry you're unsure about. In video six, I'll show you how to use Claude to manage these entries and know exactly when to exit. Entry precision is the foundation of profitable trading. Early entries lose. Late entries win small. Perfect entries win big. Professional traders use candle pattern recognition to identify perfect entries. Claude AI accelerates that process, helping you identify the patterns instantly. Combined with your discipline, position sizing, and risk management, this path leads to 70 to 85% consistent profitability. Video six shows you the other side of the equation, how to exit perfectly, how to know exactly when to take your profits. If you need specific Claude prompts for this video, look at the pinned comments. I wish you all the best in your trading journey. And if you are an advanced trader, keep looking for new updates at oristrade.com. We are building something great. You've entered a trade perfectly. Price is rising. You're up $800. But then something happens. You hesitate. You hold too long. Price reverses. Your profit disappears. Now you're down $200. Same setup, two different outcomes. The difference, exit technique. Most traders nail the entry and lose on the exit. Professional traders, no. Perfect entries mean nothing without perfect exits. The exit is where you capture your profit. In this video, I'm going to show you the advanced exit techniques professionals use to lock in profits and avoid giving back wins. You'll learn exactly when to exit, how to scale out, and how to protect your money. By the end, you'll never be uncertain about exits again. There are three ways to exit a winning trade. First, the early exit. Price hits your first profit target. You exit immediately. Outcome, small profit, but you left money on the table. You caught only one third of the move. Second, the perfect exit. Price reaches a strong resistance level where you know it will likely reverse. You exit at maximum profit. Outcome, you captured the entire move. You got the most profit possible. Third, the greedy exit. Price is rising fast. You hold waiting for more, but it reverses on you. Your profit shrinks. You exit in panic at a smaller gain. Outcome, you left the perfect exit behind, then gave back profit. Professional traders use the perfect exit. They know exactly where to exit based on market structure. They don't hold longer hoping for more. They take the profit at the right level. Professional traders use specific strategies to exit perfectly. First, the one third rule. You sell one third of your position at your first target. Lock in guaranteed profit. Move your stop loss to break even on the remaining two thirds. Now you're risking zero. The remaining two thirds can run to your second target risk free. You sell another one third at the second target. Let the final one third run to your maximum target. This captures small wins plus a big win. Second, the staircase exit. You take small profits at multiple levels on the way up. This captures the entire move in stages. Third, the resistance exit. You know major resistance is coming. You exit before price tests it, capturing maximum profit before the reversal. Professional traders combine these strategies based on the trade setup. They don't guess. They plan exactly where they'll exit before they enter. Here's how I use Claude AI for exit precision. I enter a trade and capture a profit. Now I need to decide. Do I exit here or hold for more? I screenshot the chart showing price at a resistance level. I open Claude and ask I'm in a winning trade. Should I exit at this resistance level or hold for the next level? Claude analyzes the chart and the resistance level. Claude says something like this resistance has been tested three times. Price typically reverses here. You've captured 70% of the move. The risk slash reward of holding is unfavorable. Exit here, lock in your profit. That analysis would have taken me five minutes to do manually. Claude did it in seconds. Let me show you another example. I'm up $1,200 on a trade. I asked Claude, should I scale out here or let it all run? Claude analyzes my position and the market structure. Claude responds, scale out half at this level. Lock in $600 profit. Let half run to the next resistance. This balances risk and reward. If price reverses, you keep half the profit. If it keeps going, you capture more on the second half. Now here's the exit perfection connection. Over 100 trades, when I exit using Claude assisted analysis, I'm profitable 70 to 85% of the time. Why? Because Claude helps me identify high probability exit levels. Early exits lose potential. Greedy exits lose profit. Perfect exits capture maximum profit. Claude helps me find the perfect exits consistently. This is how you build towards 70 to 85% consistently profitable decision-making with proper discipline, position sizing and risk management. Claude is your exit precision assistant. Use it every time you're unsure whether to exit. In video seven, I'll show you how to protect your account with risk management that prevents huge losses. Perfect exits are the difference between small profits and big profits. Early exits leave money on the table. Greedy exits give back your wins. Professional traders exit at maximum profit by reading resistance levels and market structure. Claude AI accelerates that process, helping you identify the perfect exit level instantly. Combined with your discipline, position sizing and risk management, this path leads to 70 to 85% consistent profitability. Video seven shows you how to protect your profits with advanced risk management. How to size your positions so losses never hurt your account. If you need specific Claude prompts for this video, look at the pinned comments. I wish you all the best in your trading journey. And if you are an advanced trader, keep looking for new updates at oristrade.com. Your stops are too far. Your position sizes are too big. Your risk is too high. And this is exactly why accounts blow up. I am watching traders every single day. And the number one pattern I see isn't bad entries or missed exits. It's accounts vaporizing because risk management is completely backwards. You walk into a trade thinking this is the one and you risk 5% of your account on a single setup. You place your stop 200 pips away because you're afraid of getting stopped out. And then you panic when the market moves against you. Here's the reality. Professional traders aren't smarter than you. They're not seeing something magical that you're missing. They are simply protecting themselves first and profiting second. In this video, I'm showing you the exact framework that separates profitable traders from account killers. We're talking position sizing, risk calculations, and how to build a trading account that survives multiple losses and captures profits consistently. Let's start with the foundation, the 1% risk rule. Here's what it means. On any single trade, you never risk more than 1% of your total account balance. That's it. That's the rule. If your account is $10,000, you risk $100 maximum on one trade. If it's $50,000, you risk $500. If it's $100,000, you risk $1,000. Simple math. Now, why 1%? Because it creates something called ruin protection. Let's say you hit a 10 trade losing streak, which happens to everyone, even professionals. At 1% risk, you've lost 10% of your account. You're down, but you're not decimated. You have capital to trade. You have psychological resilience. But what if you risk 5% per trade and hit that same 10 trade streak? You've lost 50% of your account. You're panicking. You're making emotional decisions. You're revenge trading. You're done. The 1% rule isn't about being conservative. It's about surviving long enough to see your edge compound over 100, 200, 500 trades. Most traders fail because they blow up on trade 47 before their edge ever has a chance to work. Risk management prevents that. Now, let's get specific about position sizing. This is where the math becomes your protection. Here's the formula you're using from now on. Position size equals account balance times risk percent divided by distance to stop in pips times pip value. Let me make this concrete. Your account, $10,000. You risk 1%. So your risk amount is $100. You see a setup on ES, E-mini S, and P500. Entry at 5,000. Your stop is at 4,990. That's 10 points. Each point on ES is worth $50. So your stop loss distance is 10 times $50 equals $500. Wait, your risk amount is $100, but your stop is $500 away. That doesn't work. Here's what you do. You reduce position size until the math works. Instead of buying one contract, you buy 0.2 contracts. Now your risk is $100. Perfect. This is the key insight. Your position size bends to match your risk. Not the other way around. Most traders do this backwards. They decide, I want to buy one ES contract and then they place their stop wherever it feels right. Then they're risking way more than 1%. No, risk first. Position size follows always. Stop placement isn't arbitrary. It's based on the setup itself. For support and resistance setups, which you learned in video four, your stop goes just below the support level you're bouncing off. Not 50 pips below. Not 100 pips below. Just below. For trend continuation setups, your stop might go below the recent swing low. For breakout setups, your stop goes just outside the breakout zone. The key, your stop is based on where the setup is invalidated, not on some random comfortable distance. Once your stop is placed logically, then you look at your profit target. This is where risk slash reward comes in. Professional traders target at least two to one risk to reward. That means for every dollar you risk, you're aiming to make two dollars. Why two to one? Because if you're right 50% of the time and 50% is realistic for many traders, two to one risk slash reward makes you profitable. 50% winning trades times two profit equals 100% gains. 50% losing trades times one loss equals 50% losses net plus 50% growth. At three to one risk slash reward, you can be right just 40% of the time and still be profitable. At one to one risk reward, you need to be right 51% plus of the time to make money, and that's cutting it dangerously close. So every trade you take, calculate your risk. Calculate your profit target. Make sure the reward is at least double the risk. If it's not, don't take the trade. Here's your complete risk management checklist. 1. Calculate your 1% risk amount based on current account balance. 2. Identify your setup and place your stop based on setup logic. 3. Calculate how many contracts slash shares you can trade to hit that 1% risk. 4. Identify your profit target. 5. Calculate your risk slash reward ratio. 6. If it's at least two to one, take the trade. If not, skip it and wait for the next setup. This is what separates professionals from everyone else. It's boring. It's mechanical. It's not intuitive, but it works. You're not trying to make the biggest trade possible. You're trying to survive and compound over 500 trades. Risk management makes that possible. The truth is risk management is the boring part of trading. It's not exciting. It won't make you rich on a single trade, but it will keep you in the game long enough for your edge to work. Video 8 teaches you what happens after you enter live trade management, how to adjust, when to take profits, when to cut losses. That's the other half of the equation. If you need specific Claude prompts for this video, look at the pinned comments. I wish you all the best in your trading journey. And if you are an advanced trader, keep looking for new updates at oristrade.com. Your entry was perfect. Your position size is right. Your stop loss is 10 points below. Everything is set up correctly. And then the trade moves against you. Your heart rate spikes. Your hands get sweaty. You look at the P and L. You're down $150. The trade is at your stop loss. Should you move it? Should you get out? Should you panic? This moment right now during the trade, this is where most traders lose money because entry is easy. Exit is hard. Entry is logic. Exit is emotion. Professional traders don't panic during trades because they have a management plan before the trade ever happens. They know exactly what to do if the trade moves against them. They know what to do if it moves in their favor. They know their rules for breakeven stops, partial exits, trailing stops, and management signals. In this video, I'm showing you the exact framework that professionals use to manage trades in real time. We're talking decision trees, emotion control, and how Cloud AI can coach you through the most stressful moments of trading. Let's start with the most important management tool, the breakeven stop. Here's what happens. You enter a trade. You're up $100. The trade looks amazing, but instead of taking profits immediately, professionals do something different. They move their stop loss to breakeven. What does this mean? If you entered at $5,000 and your stop was at $4,990, you move that stop to $5,000, your entry price. Now, if the trade reverses and hits your stop, you breakeven. You don't lose money. You only lose opportunity. But here's the key insight. By moving your stop to breakeven, you're letting the market tell you whether your trade is still valid. If price reverses and hits breakeven, that tells you something important. It tells you the trade isn't working. It tells you your setup is no longer valid. The opposite is also true. If price continues higher after you move your stop to breakeven, you're riding a real winner. You're holding with zero downside risk. This is how professionals protect profits while letting winners run. Most traders do the opposite. They're up $100. They panic that they'll lose it. So they exit immediately and lock in a small profit. Then they watch the trade go up another $500 without them. Breakeven stops prevent both mistakes. You protect your profits. You still let winners run. Now, let's talk about taking profits on the way up. Here's a professional strategy. Take one third of your position at your original profit target. Move your stop to breakeven. Let the other two thirds run. Let me give you concrete numbers. You enter three contracts at $5,000. Your stop is at $4,990. Your profit target is $5,020. That's two to one risk slash reward. You risk $300 total, 1% of a $30,000 account. Price hits $5,020. You're up $600. Here's what professionals do. They sell one contract at $5,020. They lock in their $200 profit. Now they move their stop to $5,000 breakeven. Let the remaining two contracts run. What happens next? Price could hit $5,040, $5,060, or $5,100. You're riding those extra profits with zero downside. You're already profitable from the first one third. Or price could reverse and hit your breakeven stop at $5,000. You exit the remaining two contracts at breakeven. You're up $200 from the first one third, even though the second half didn't work. This is the professional one third rule. Take one third at target. Move stop to breakeven. Let two thirds run for bigger wins. The psychology is huge here. You're not stuck choosing between all or nothing. You're splitting the difference. You lock in profits. You still let winners run. You remove emotional pressure. Trailing stops are your third management tool. Here's how they work. Instead of a fixed stop loss, you move your stop up as the trade makes profit. Let's say you're in ES at $5,000. Stop at $4,990. Price moves to $5,010. You move your stop to $5,005, just five points below the new price. Price moves to $5,020. You move your stop to $5,015. Price moves to $5,030. You move your stop to $5,025. Now you're trailing the market. You're capturing every point of profit while protecting yourself with a tight stop. The beauty, you don't have to manually move your stop. Most platforms let you set a trailing stop automatically. It moves for you as price moves higher. But here's the key. Don't use trailing stops on small timeframes. A five point trailing stop on ES gets you shaken out constantly by noise. Use trailing stops on swing trades where the move is bigger. Now let's talk about management signals. These are the patterns that tell you to exit early, even if you haven't hit your profit target. Management signal number one. Price reverses hard without touching your stop. That's a two bar reversal. Exit immediately. Your setup failed. Management signal number two. Volume dies. You're in a trade and volume drops to nothing. That's a sign momentum is dying. Exit. Management signal number three. You hit a major resistance level and price reverses. That's the market telling you this is it. Exit. Professional traders exit based on these signals all the time. Even when they're up less than their profit target, they'd rather exit a mediocre winner than hold a winner that turns into a loser. Here's your complete trade management decision tree. Before entry, set your stop target and position size. Know your rules. Trade moves against you. Immediately move stop to break even once you have profit. Don't panic. Trust your stop. Trade hits profit target. Take one third off. Move stop to break even. Let two thirds run. Trade continues higher. Use trailing stops five to 10 points to protect profits while staying in. Management signal hits. Exit immediately even if you're not at your full target. Don't be stubborn. Trade hits. Stop. Exit without hesitation. Your job isn't to catch the maximum profit. Your job is to follow the plan. This decision tree removes emotion. You don't have to think during the trade. You already know what you're doing. You're just executing. Professional traders execute a plan. Beginners improvise in the moment and panic. Follow the plan. Trade management is where professionals separate from beginners. Entry is science. Exit is discipline. Video nine goes deeper into scaling. How to take even more profits by exiting in multiple stages instead of all at once. But that only works if you master the fundamentals you just learned. Break even stops. Partial exits. And emotional control. If you need specific Claude prompts for this video, look at the pinned comments. I wish you all the best in your trading journey. And if you are an advanced trader, keep looking for new updates at oristrade.com. You're in a winning trade. Price is moving in your favor. You're up $500. Should you close it? Should you hold? Most traders choose one of two extremes. Extreme one, close everything. Lock in the $500. You sleep well that night, but then the trade continues and goes to plus $1,500 without you. You missed $1,000 of potential profit. Extreme two, hold everything. You want the massive win, but the market reverses. You're back to $0 profit. You gave it all back. There's a better way. It's called position scaling. And it's how professionals capture both the small wins and the potential big wins in the same trade. In this video, I'm showing you the exact framework for scaling out of trades at multiple levels. You'll learn the one third rule, staircase exits, when to scale out versus when to hold and real examples with actual numbers. So you can see exactly how it works. Let's start with the foundation. The one third rule. You're familiar with this from video eight, but now we're expanding it. Here's how it works. You enter a trade with three contracts. Your stop is at minus $300 risk. Your initial profit target is plus $600. That's two to one risk slash reward. Price moves to your target and you're up $600. Here's what professionals do. Step one, sell one third of your position at the target. You lock in $200 profit, done money in the bank. Step two, move your stop on the remaining two thirds to break even. Now you can't lose money on the remaining position. Step three, let the remaining two thirds run with zero downside risk. What happens next? Three scenarios. Scenario A, price continues up to $1,200. You're up $200 from the first one third locked in plus $800 from the remaining two thirds equals $1,000 total. Scenario B, price hits resistance and reverses. Your break even stop triggers. You exit the remaining two thirds at your entry. You're up $200 total from the first one third. Scenario C, price goes sideways. You're still up $200 minimum. You're not waiting around. You close the rest manually. The beauty, you're guaranteed $200 minimum profit, but you still have unlimited upside if the trade continues. This is the professional approach. You've locked in one third of your target. The remaining two thirds is free money if it works. Now let's talk about staircase exits. This is scaling taken to the next level. Instead of taking one third at target, you take profits at multiple levels as price moves. Let me give you concrete numbers. You enter six contracts at 5,000. Your stop is at 4,980 minus 20 points equals minus $1,000 total risk. Your initial target is 5,020 plus 20 points equals plus $1,000 profit. But instead of exiting all two thirds at 5,020, you build a staircase. Level one, 5,010. Sell two contracts. Lock in $200 profit. Move stop to 5,000. Level two, 5,020. Sell two more contracts. Lock in another $200 profit. Move stop to 5,010. Level three, 5,030 plus. Let final two contracts run with tight trailing stop, 5 to 10 points. What does this look like? You enter at 5,000 with six contracts. You're down $1,000 at most. Price hits 5,010. You sell two contracts. Lock in $200. You have four left. Price hits 5,020. You sell two more. Lock in another $200. You have two left. Price hits 5,030. The market is on fire. Your trailing stop hasn't triggered. You're still holding two contracts with $200 plus protection. Price hits 5,040. You're riding winners up to plus $800 on the final two contracts. Total $200 plus $200 plus $800 equals $1,200. Profit on a trade that could have been plus $1,000 if you exited all at once. The staircase gives you flexibility. You lock in profits at each level, but you keep exposure to bigger moves. It's the sweet spot between security and opportunity. Here's a concept that separates advanced traders from intermediate ones. Should you scale up winners or scale out? Most traders scale out, which you just learned. But advanced traders sometimes scale up. Here's when you scale up. You're in a winner. You have $200 profit locked in. You're holding the remaining two thirds on breakeven. Price continues higher. And now you're looking at $500 plus potential on those two contracts. A market signal appears. Volume surges. Momentum indicators are screaming. Price breaks through major resistance. This isn't a normal continuation. This is a powerful move. What do you do? Advanced traders ADD to the position. This is called scaling in. You add one to two more contracts at the current price with a tight stop. Why? Because the market is telling you something special is happening. By adding contracts, you're increasing your participation in a high probability move while keeping your risk controlled with a tight stop. But here's the key. You scale up only when you have proof of strength. You need price breaking structural resistance. Volume increasing significantly. Your technical indicators confirming market conditions supportive. You don't scale up randomly. You scale up when the market gives you clear signals. Contrast this with the normal approach. You have two contracts running on breakeven. You just hold and hope. When you scale up, you're being aggressive on strength, not hoping. The result, you capture more of the big moves while the staircase exits keep you protected. Here's your complete position scaling framework. Before entry, decide your scaling plan. How many stages? At what levels? How many contracts at each level? At first target, take one third off. Lock in profit. Move stop to breakeven on remaining two thirds. At second level, take another one third off. If price moves further, lock in more profit. Watch for scale up signal. If strong structural break plus volume surge plus indicator confirmation, consider adding one to two contracts. Trailing stop. Use tight trailing stops. Five to 10 points on remaining position to protect profits while staying in. Final exit. Either trailing stop triggers, management signal hits, or you manually close based on time price targets. Result, you've captured profits at multiple levels. You still had exposure to bigger moves. You use tight risk control throughout. This is professional position management. You're not emotional. You're mechanical. You're following a plan. Most traders fail because they don't have a plan. They are deciding in the moment. They panic or get greedy. You're different. You have a framework. Position scaling is the bridge between locking in small wins and capturing big wins. It's not all or nothing. It's strategic layering. The one third rule is the foundation. Staircase exits give you flexibility. Scaling up on strength gives you aggression. Trailing stops protect your profits. Video 10 teaches you how to track all of this. Journaling, analyzing your exits, finding patterns in what works. Because scaling doesn't matter if you can't measure whether it's actually improving your results. If you need specific Claude prompts for this video, look at the pinned comments. I wish you all the best in your trading journey. And if you are an advanced trader, keep looking for new updates at OrisTrade.com