[Before widening the stop loss] Decrease the quantity while keeping the allowable amount

Are you moving the initial width farther away only when you are close to a stop loss?

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The feeling of not wanting to be stopped out is natural. However, if you adjust the stop loss position to match that feeling,

even with the same quantity, the amount of loss per trade changes.

What you should fix is not the stop loss width, but the amount you are willing to tolerate in one trade. Preserve the cancellation level set by the chart,

and if it doesn’t fit, reduce the quantity. Return to that order of actions.

✅ Set the acceptable amount first per trade

If you decide the amount after looking at the chart, the more favorable the shape, the looser the upper limit becomes.

For example, after finding candidate setups, if you decide the upper limit then, even though you intend to invest 10,000 yen,

on days when the form looks clean, there is room to allow 20,000 yen.

How much you can accept relative to your account should be written before opening the chart to make comparisons easier.

What you want to avoid is using the urge to enter as a reason for the tolerance amount.

In records, note【Tolerance amount is fixed / candidates are undecided / quantity to be calculated later】.

If the upper limit is known in advance, you can compare even if the chart looks attractive at the same amount.

✅ Save the tolerance amount in one line before opening the order column.

? Current record: 【Tolerance amount is fixed / candidates are undecided / quantity to be calculated later】

? Find the cancellation level from the chart

Stop loss should be placed not at a distance that’s painful, but at a place where your reading would no longer hold true.

Before entering, decide in advance where you would be unable for this approach to hold any longer.

If the price comes to that point and you reinterpret it as “just a small pullback,” you would end up with a trade different from your original plan.

If there are two such places where your reading would no longer hold,

do not choose the more convenient one after placing the order. Note which premise you used to select the candidate,

and decide in advance where that premise would be negated. If there are alternative viewpoints left, don’t rush the trade and return to observation for later verification.

Here, when the urge not to be cut loses, you tend to push the position farther away. That’s why I want to keep the words you spoke before entering.

What you want to avoid is reconstructing the meaning of the position after seeing unrealized loss.

In the record, write【Close the buying hypothesis with a clear new low】.

If you write the reason first, it becomes harder to just move the position farther away midway.

✅ Leave the reason for cancellation on screen before entering.

? Current record: 【Close the buying hypothesis with a clear new low】

? Calculate quantity from distance

On days when the cancellation level is far, the usual quantity may exceed the upper limit.

On a morning when the cancellation level is far away, if you proceed to the order field with your usual quantity,

it may appear larger than you anticipated. If that number feels off,

do not rush the order and close the screen. Here, more than how you decide the quantity, you should record the reason you paused.

What you want to avoid is fixing the quantity to move the stop loss closer or farther away.

In the record, note【Cancellation level is far / usual quantity is heavy / order is on hold】.

If the quantity becomes a balancing factor, you won’t have to bend the chart’s structure.

Even with the same price range, the burden changes depending on the instrument and account conditions.

Even candidates that appear favorable on screen and you close them as “not today” can be left as records for later review.

Conversely, if you assume it’s okay because the quantity is always smaller, you may lose the very amount you wanted to protect initially.

This is not about increasing profits but about confirming to avoid an unacceptable one-time trade.

✅ Do not round up numbers even if the calculated result is small.

? Current record: 【Cancellation level is far / usual quantity is heavy / order on hold】

? Stop when you feel it’s too small

If the calculated quantity is small, you may feel you’re wasting opportunities.

If even the minimum quantity does not fit within the upper limit, there is no need to forcibly adjust decimal points.

Record that that candidate does not suit your current account conditions and finish. If a similar shape comes later, it reduces hesitation.

What should you look at first in this situation?

The answer is to check whether the small reason is distance or balance.

In the records, write【The distance is wide, so even the minimum quantity exceeds the upper limit】.

A sense of unease is not a signal to increase orders but a notice of condition mismatch.

✅ If the minimum quantity still doesn’t fit, pass.

? Current record: 【The distance is wide, so even the minimum quantity exceeds the upper limit】

⚠ Separate entry price movement and stop loss movement

If you treat post-holding management as a single operation, the fear moves your position.

The feeling of wanting to move to the break-even point should be recorded separately from the urge to push the stop loss away.

Moving to break-even requires holding conditions; changing the stop loss position requires the original cancellation condition.

If you move without new price action, and only look at the P&L, reflect on that difference.

Even if there is a trade that avoids a loss as a result of moving to break-even, that does not guarantee the same action is justified next time.

At that point, note what new reaction occurred and how the assumption for holding changed.

This helps avoid evaluating profit-protective actions and market-changing actions in the same field.

Moving to break-even on the chart often happens quickly. If it were me, I would first write what new aspects I saw.

What you want to avoid is calling market changes a cause to erase losses.

In the record, note【If reaction continues, keep / if structure collapses, retreat / if only fear, no action】.

If you divide the reasons into three, you can see changes driven by emotion alone.

✅ Record the time of change and the rationale in a separate section.

? Current record: 【If reaction continues, keep / if structure collapses, retreat / if only fear, no action】

? Do not grade the position by the result

If the price returns after stop loss, it may look like the position was bad.

Even if it rebounds immediately after the stop loss, at exit time the buying premise may have collapsed. Separate the image at the decision point from later images, so you don’t mix two pieces of information. Whether to adjust cancellation level next time should not be decided by a single rebound.

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It’s not determined by a single rebound.

What you want to avoid is rewriting cancellation conditions before entering using future rebounds.

In the record, note【At settlement time reading had collapsed / later rebound recorded separately】.

If you cut it by outcome, you can perform the same cancellation next time.

Of course, you cannot always place cancellation level exactly every time. When the milestones overlap,

there are situations where you cannot explain which threshold to cross to end the hypothesis.

In such cases, rather than forcing a stop loss to a nearby price and inflating quantity, you keep the candidate on hold.

Even if later price moves in the expected direction,

that moment’s cancellation conditions were not clearly defined. The correction isn’t a one-time result, but a view of where the same ambiguity occurs repeatedly.

✅ Return the retraced price movement to the observation column.

? Current record: 【At settlement time reading had collapsed / later rebound recorded separately】

? Split loss amount and rule violations

Even a planned loss feels like a failure when you only look at the red numbers.

If you separate the record into 'P&L' and 'procedure', you don’t count a planned loss as a rule violation.

Conversely, if you profit but the quantity exceeded the limit, mark it in the procedure.

This prevents reversing the evaluation of amount and action.

What you want to avoid is counting a loss itself as a procedure violation.

In the record, note【Loss within plan / Cancellation kept / Way to wait at the place needs improvement】.

With one target corrected, you can adjust for the next order without changing everything.

✅ Leave one-line note for any calculation you did not adopt.

? Current record: 【Loss within plan / Cancellation kept / Way to wait at the place needs improvement】

? Do not change the upper limit even with consecutive losses

If you are cut twice in a row, the desire to recover grows stronger next time.

After a streak of losses, you want to recover the previous two with the next single one. However, if you decide quantity based on recovery goals,

even on the same chart, the tolerance amount becomes larger. Treat the next candidate as a new case and

place the losing streak in a separate field.

If you did not increase the quantity for the next candidate after a losing streak day,

even if there is no profit, there is value in keeping the procedure. Conversely, if you can recover once,

if the quantity exceeds the limit, it is an area for improvement. To avoid missing risky actions only when results are good,

separate the P&L and the procedure fields.

After two consecutive losses, you will want to recover only on the next. But I think it’s better not to burden the next order with the previous loss.

What you want to avoid is calculating the tolerance amount from the recovery goal.

In the record, note【Loss streak is recorded / Tolerance set / Quantity decided by distance】.

If you don’t mix the previous loss into the next size, you can close trade one by one.

✅ Do not bring the amount up to recoup into the order column.

? Current record: 【Loss streak is recorded / Tolerance set / Quantity decided by distance】

✔ Leave the deferred quantity calculations as well

Unplaced calculations tend to be deleted or omitted.

Even the calculations you didn’t place should remain as one item. If you write【Exceed upper limit with the minimum quantity】,

the postponement becomes a result of comparing conditions rather than a mood. When you review on weekends,

you can include them in the count of times you respected the upper limit.

What you want to avoid is evaluating capital management only at the moment of execution.

In the record, note【Even with the minimum quantity, the upper limit was exceeded, so I postponed】.

If postponement remains, you can count the respected upper limit on the weekend as well.

Postponed candidates disappear from the record if you just say you missed the opportunity. Note the time, location of the candidate,

assumed cancellation level, loss projection at minimum quantity, and the difference from the upper limit in separate columns,

so you can confirm the reason for postponement on the weekend. If you ever feel the urge to push stop loss farther, put it in the same table.

The scenarios where you could lower the width while reducing quantity, and the scenarios where you couldn’t meet even the minimum quantity,

both count as upholding the initial tolerance amount.

✅ Leave a line for the calculation you did not adopt.

? Current record: 【Exceed upper limit with the minimum quantity, so postponed】

⭕ Inspect width order order on weekends, not width itself

Simply lining up stop-loss widths without reflecting the cause of the breakdown won’t reveal the reason.

During the weekend, don’t just list the sizes; look at whether you could have written the upper limit ahead, whether you did not change cancellations,

and whether you did not raise the quantity. Even when the price range differs, you can compare using these three orders.

One item at a time is sufficient to fix.

Avoid deciding good or bad based only on whether it’s narrow or wide.

In the records, note【Kept the order sequence four times / Rounded quantity once / Zero width changes】.

With the order sequence, you can compare even in weeks with different price ranges.

✅ Next week, fix only the one point of not rounding the quantity.

? Current record: 【Kept the order sequence four times / Rounded quantity once / Zero width changes】

? Summary: carry forward to the next one

It’s not about suppressing the urge to push the stop loss farther only with willpower. You distinguish numbers you may move before placing the order from positions you must not move.

If you place tolerance, cancellation level, and quantity in that order, you can return to calculation even when fear arises. If three don’t align,

do not bend the stop loss width; lower the quantity or postpone.

The stop loss level is a place where your reading collapses, tolerance is the ceiling you guard, and the quantity is the adjusting link between the two.

On nights you don’t want to be cut, return the object to quantity and move back to the next action.

In this week’s records, don’t just select the trades that were profitable; place postponed trades and planned stop losses on the same sheet as well.

Leaving what you were looking at before the outcome helps you choose the next item to fix more easily.

You don’t need to change all items on the next screen at once. Choose only the one item that you decided to skip today,

and leave the time and observed facts recorded. If there isn’t enough material, refrain from concluding and keep it on hold.

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