After years of experiences, losses, failures, books, and of course profits, I simplified everything I learned and made use of my expertise as a software engineer and data scientist at https://www.tradingadvisor.app If you want to know more about the reasons and how it works, I have an article where I talk about it https://medium.com/p/81e886b4f67e
That said, this is my day-to-day trading.
According to investing.com there is nothing for the day, the news comes from the previous day, therefore I make the decision to trade this instrument.
After deciding what to trade, the most important step is risk control, particularly I have this simple rule:
The stop loss cannot represent more than 10% of my capital.
That number will depend on each person, it is the one I use and it works for me because it is the risk I am willing to expose myself to. With the maximum stop loss established, now it remains to calculate the lot to operate.
Operate and wait for results:
Keep in mind what Take Profit 1 and Take Profit 2 mean: