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Trading Principles — Entry Points, Stop-Loss, and Bollinger Bands

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TargetEntryStop1R = the money you are riskingWhat you stand to gain
Once the stop distance is set, size is worked backward

What an entry point really is

• An entry point is taken at support or resistance on a larger timeframe (daily at minimum) — a place where big money has reached agreement

• That spot is then subdivided into the 4-hour, 1-hour, and 15-minute charts to narrow the entry timing

What Bollinger Bands show

• Bollinger Bands are not a direction signal; they show the 'contraction expansion rhythm of volatility'

• Trend → squeeze (bands narrow) → expansion (large move) repeats — when the bands narrow, energy is compressed and a large move is near

Where people slip

• They mistake a band touch for a 'trade signal' — the bands describe the state of volatility, not direction

• A stop-loss is executed by a condition (a level breaking), not by emotion

Entry points come from larger-timeframe support and resistance, and the volatility rhythm is read from the Bollinger Bands.

Do you see Bollinger Bands as a direction signal, or as a rhythm of volatility contracting and expanding?

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Trading Principles — Entry Points, Stop-Loss, and Bollinger Bands — MarketSurfer Trading Education