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View Poll Results: percentage of Profit
5-20% 11 45.83%
20-40% 8 33.33%
60-80% 2 8.33%
80 and above% 3 12.50%
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Old 7th December 2007, 10:02 AM
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Default What Profit % will you sell the stock

Hi all

I have a doubt at what percentage of profit should we sell the stock
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It purly vary based on your risk taking capability. I exit once my inv cross 10% as I am basically a FD investor , where i get the same money in 1 Year. Now I get those in 1 month
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12 times increase....
Kooooooool
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12 times increase....
Kooooooool
it should b as....till what % levels will one wait to exit at a loss if the stock is trading below his buying price !
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it should b as....till what % levels will one wait to exit at a loss if the stock is trading below his buying price !
Totally agree with u. Minimize ur loss and maximize ur profits.
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Profit booking is the worst part of trading and over the years i have experienced that whenever i have got out of market with a profit , it has proved to be a loss booking because market invariably keeps on going up.

It is easy to find entry points but difficult part is to find a proper exit. Sometimes booking even 200% profit seems like i have booked a loss as stock goes on making 400%
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Earlier i was quite happy to find a method called trailing stoploss but experience has shown that we almost sell our holdings at worst prices with trailing stop loss and markets makes us look foolish by taking our stoplosses and starting its upward run again.

This is a good thread, it would be good if everybody discussed how they exi their trades
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@brijwanth,

I take profit between 5-50% .. average 10-15% take profit .. and book loss below 5%,
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Earlier i was quite happy to find a method called trailing stoploss but experience has shown that we almost sell our holdings at worst prices with trailing stop loss and markets makes us look foolish by taking our stoplosses and starting its upward run again.

This is a good thread, it would be good if everybody discussed how they exi their trades
I agree with u prabhjeetrana that trailing stoploss may not give u the full benefit however we have seen only one side of the market that is continous upwards (primary uptrend).

We need to think about the long run, I am sure we will get benefited with the trailing SL and bridge methods. SL saved me a lot
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I agree with u prabhjeetrana that trailing stoploss may not give u the full benefit however we have seen only one side of the market that is continous upwards (primary uptrend).

We need to think about the long run, I am sure we will get benefited with the trailing SL and bridge methods. SL saved me a lot
How do you calculate trailing stop loss is it a pivot low or just percentage retracement that you follow
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