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For CL, I've also 2 strategies, it always depends at what time and level.
1: 20 tick PT and 10 tick SL, if it moves 5 ticks in my favour, SL jumps to -5 ticks and stays there
2: 30 tick PT and 20 tick SL, it it moves 10 ticks in my favour, SL jumps to -5 ticks and trails by 15 ticks
if it moves fast close to the PT (which can happen with CL), I delete the PT and trail it manually
Your response sounds very logical and straightforward, and I can tell you been trading the CL.
I am trading the 3 minute chart and my stops range between 20-30 ticks for each method.
Fixed method:
1. Risk is always greater than reward for each trade. SL range between 15-30 ticks depends price action at the time. Profit target is always is 10 ticks. I have been thinking how to reduce risk. Maybe trade smaller time frame or start using limit orders and wait for retracement instead of buy and sell stop at end of bars.
Trailing method:
2. SL range between 15-30 ticks. +20 SL goes to breakeven. +30 SL goes to +10. Trail by +15 ticks afterwards.
I mostly trade pullbacks in a trend (at least intraday trend), so 10-20 ticks works fine.
CL has nice moves, so it's better to trade less and let it run, best example are your 3 trades (posted above), let trade 1 run and you don't need trade 2 and 3 (but as already said, it is all so easy (after wards) )
A big mistake I made while journal my trades since March 2019 was NOT tracking the different R:R (1:1 through 1:3) per trade and evaluating the results. So this is a lesson learned on my part. I have been tracking results of my trailing method but not R:R per trade.
Had I track R:R = 1 and measured the win rate, I can know if this is consistently profitable or not with positive expectancy.