Quote Originally Posted by Pierre Brodeur View Post
I am having a problem understanding why the GDX robot is willing to take so much risk and is basically disregarding the confluence support area in protecting the capital of the owner of this security. At closing of $56.25, the robot is willing to sell stop the shares at 6.58% below the close in the context that ATR% is 2.56% which is almost a 3 standard deviation event. This makes no sense to me and does not appear prudent at all. Again, the implicit Expected return appears to be around 18.4% but I, as a prudent trader would not be willing to wait for the stop to be hit on this trade. And it has nothing to do with emotions...!

Pierre
Pierre, I'm sure Pascal or Billy will say something, but if you had entered the trade at "The buy entry price was 53.26 and the current stop level is 52.55. Last close: 56.25" your stop is only 71 cents below your cost. Did you enter the trade at 53.26? If not, you are comparing apples to oranges. Dave