I’ll check out the article asap, thx for that & your direct experience with the tariffs (most experts say they take some time to fully impact the economy).

Regarding your question, years back I came across a swing trading strategy where they recommended something like a 3% loss allowance with an 8% profit-taking order on each swing trade. Never tried that so can’t speak to it.

My entries & exits on trades are based on my read of the chart (e.g.- What kind of bullish or bearish chart pattern & what is the measured target for that pattern; What particular security (e.g.- nat gas & Bitcoin move a whole lot more than Treasury bonds); Is the trade with or against the prevailing trend (e.g.- a counter-trend trade might have smaller, correction targets, unless calling a top or bottom/trend change).

I analyze a chart & then set my profit target(s) on longs slightly below the resistance levels that I think it will run up to (vice versa on shorts) based on that particular security, chart pattern, etc.. Again, I can’t really speak to the “just target XX% profit with X% stop loss) thing on a trade as far a trading style. Maybe others with experience can chime in. You might find using a tight trailing stop useful on situations like you mentioned.

Putting aside that whole “noboday bats .1000 thing” not to mention the strong & very repetitive preference I’ve been sharing to ‘be positioned both long (with numerous longs closed out for high double & even triple digit gains since then), let’s go ahead & focus on that one single recent trade on QQQ (oh yeah, we’ll also skip shorting QQQ down from the highs at the start of the year, milking the bulk of that 25% bear market/correction and then covering at the lows & positioning long on that multi-decade record explosive rally off the April lows)

So not having the time to go back & look at every objective short entry highlighted since Sept 2nd, you should realize that the NDX only rose about 9% to the recent highs since then & that /NQ closed Friday (including the post-session trading) down over half of that on Friday (half of over nearly a month & a half of gains wiped out in a single day)… not to mention those additional highlighted short entries were on the way up, so an average of much less than an 8% drawdown. Friday’s sell signals were also much more significant than any recent sell signals for all the (technical) reasons covered in recent videos, including but not limited to the break below the primary TL off the April lows on the daily & weekly (not just 60m) frames

of course I’m not shorting UPS. The chart is in a divergent low. Not trusting NBC is fine, but do you think business insider is distorting as well? Or their sources referenced in this article.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ups-customers-told-their-us-bound-packages-
are-marked-for-destruction-2025-10

The tariffs are distorting the market. Packages are shipped to get to the recipients at the price quoted by UPS and the tariffs on the books at the time of shipment. Changing the tariffs by 15-100% changes the business calculation, and it may not be worth it to buy the package out of tariff jail. This is pure waste and not helpful to the US or global economy.

I’m personally trying to recover $500k+ in tariffs from my customer. The paper work is spotty at best, not to mention the customer wants the information in a certain format containing details we don’t have. Also they want the 7501 document (form from the US govt). It’s not separated by customer, only by location. This means that my customer would have to search through about 300 pages of forms to try to find the components that they use in their product in order to verify our claims. It is a complete mess.

Looks like we getting whipped

NBC? NBC is hardly a reliable News source! Three days ago UPS clarified NBC’s distortions! Over 90% of incoming International packages clear customs in one business day! Less then 10% take up to three business days. A very small % take longer than three business days! Honestly, you really think a premier Worldwide International Shipping company is so easily flustered by paperwork they’d just fling open the doors on their massive fleet of jumbo jets while crossing the Atlantic Ocean and shove all those packages overboard????? LOL LOL LOL! You can’t be serious??? Are you shorting UPS with everything you got? I doubt it!

I have a question regarding exit points. I was shorting russle 2000 futures on Friday was was up a decent amount. I set a fairly tight stop based on a monetary target. (just wanted to bank a certain amount) and not one based on the charts. I ended up missing out on a nice additional gain into the close.

Are monetary targets valid, or should I always play the charts for exit points?

lastly, Trump tariffs are distorting the global and american economy. We are fighting internally over these tariffs. We’ll probably sue our customer over reimbursements or at least stop shipping. Our customer is saying they can’t afford them and they just laid of 20%. Cracks in the real economy are getting deeper.

check out this article. The tariffs are so confusing to UPS that they are just throwing packages away.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ups-delay-customs-tariffs-packages-destroyed-rcna236607

I hear you on that. Some of the calls are.
Objective, and then he doesn’t give enter.Or stop losses. Some me does but mostly doesn’t.I wish you would do the same thing every time like.Here’s where we buy approximately Lee.Then here’s our stop loss and set a commentary with your trading plan. Best call i’ve ever seen was the beyond meat call double overnight. On the other hand you could lose everything.