Another obvious key factor is profits; to achieve your weekly goal, you’ll ideally have a high average of wins per trade. It goes without saying that your average win should be at least 50% higher than your average loss, preferably even twice as high.

The strategies that I use and teach call for a profit target of $300 per contract and a stop loss of $200 per contract. You’ll notice that the profit target is greater than the stop loss. That’s the beauty of it: all you’ll need is one win, and you’ll have achieved your weekly goal of making $300 per contract. ONE WIN!

Just as an FYI, this is why “scalping” is so much more difficult. Most scalpers try to make $10 - $20 per trade, so you would need 15 – 30 wins per week to achieve your weekly goal. Which do YOU think is easier? Making one profitable trade or trying to make 15-30 profitable trades?

“Sounds Good, But What About Losses?” As everyone in trading knows, losses are a part of the business, and you can’t avoid them. If that’s something you have trouble accepting, then you’re in the wrong industry. However, there’s a huge difference between losing big on a regular basis and losing small in a controlled trading plan. Our trading strategies assume a certain amount of loss, and we prepare our students accordingly. You already know that you should keep your losses small; we simply teach you how to keep them smaller that your average wins.

Let’s go back to the scenario I mentioned above: you have a trading strategy that produces $300 in profits for every win and costs you $200 for every loss. Now, if your weekly goal is $300, and if your first trade was a loss of $200, then you need to make two winning trades to achieve that weekly profit goal.

Let me take this a little farther and actually break it down for you: you’ve lost $200 on your one losing trade, and then you make $600 on your two wining trades ($300 each). Your net profit = $400. Goal achieved. It’s as simple as that.

Of course, you’re not always guaranteed a week with only one loss. Let’s look at a week that started off with three losses. With three losses, you are now down $600 ($200 each). So, how many wins do you need to have before you achieve your weekly profit goal of $300? Three wins. Just three wins will result in $900 ($300 each). Subtract the $600 you lost on the losing trades from the $900 you won on the winning trades, and your resulting net profit is $300. Goal achieved. Again, simple as that.

“Wait A Minute – You’re Saying That I Will Achieve My Goals With a Winning Percentage of Only 50%?” YES! That’s exactly what I’m saying! Read the example above again: you lost $600 on three losing trades, made $900 on three winning trades, and came out with a net profit of $300. This means that you could pick a losing trade every other time and STILL achieve your weekly profit goals!

It gets even better: let’s just assume for a minute that you do end up achieving an actual winning percentage of only 50%. Now, when you start trading again on Monday morning, what are your chances of having a winning trade? Since we’ve already established that you make $300 per winning trade, and since $300 is your weekly profit goal, your chance of achieving that goal after only the first trade on Monday is also an overwhelming 50%! You have a one in two chance of meeting your weekly profit goal in just one, single trade!

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