Trade Entry, Stop Loss, Target Profit

Learn a price action trading strategy with explicit entry, stop loss, and target profit levels. This example details a short trade from a specific market revers

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Risk Management

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy

Source video

Decoded from: Successful Trade Strategy: 28 Point Stop, 212 Point Win! #shorts by ProRealAlgos — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Entry at 24,872
  • 0:02 - Stop loss at 24,900
  • 0:03 - Target profit at 24,610
  • 0:06 - 28 point stop-loss, 212 points win
  • 0:09 - Pattern: negative red liquidity open, reversed down, finished higher
  • 0:12 - Pattern: green open, reversed
  • 0:14 - Pattern: red open, reversed, finished green

Strategy overview

Every trade plan reduces to three decisions — where to get in, where to be wrong, and where to take profit — and this entry decodes a short-form clip from ProRealAlgos that publishes all three as explicit price levels for one completed trade. As the timestamps list them, the levels describe a short: entry at 24,872, stop loss placed above it at 24,900, and a target far below at 24,610, with the headline reporting 28 points of risk against a 212-point win.

What makes the trio worth reading closely is that its three numbers are not the same kind of number. The stop is binding — once the order rests at 24,900, those 28 points are the most the position is designed to cost, and that figure is known before the trade does anything at all. The target is a projection: it states where the trader would like the move to end, but nothing obliges price to arrive. The clip's own figures carry that distinction quietly. The distance from the stated entry to the stated target is roughly 260 points, while the win reported is 212, so the headline number is not the target being reached but the position being closed somewhere inside the plan. Risk in a setup like this is specified exactly; reward is estimated, and the exit is where the estimate meets the market.

The video is a #shorts recap rather than a walkthrough. After the numbers, its closing seconds gesture at the reasoning — a red, liquidity-taking open that reversed down before finishing higher, and a green open that reversed — naming a pattern without stating the conditions that would qualify one. No mechanical rules could be extracted from it for that reason: what this page documents is the risk geometry of a trade as its author presented it, not a reproducible entry model.

Topics

price action · trading strategy · trade entry · stop loss · profit target · reversal strategy · short trade setup · tradingview strategy · market reversal strategy · pine script

Frequently asked questions

What do entry, stop loss and target profit define in a trade?

Together they define the whole trade before it starts: the entry is the price at which the position is opened, the stop loss is the price at which the trade is abandoned as wrong, and the target profit is the price at which gains are taken. The distance from entry to stop is the risk unit; the distance from entry to target is the intended reward.

Is a stop loss the same kind of number as a profit target?

No, and the difference matters. A stop is enforced by a resting order — barring gaps and slippage it caps the loss at a size chosen in advance. A target only fills if price actually travels that far, so it is a forecast rather than a constraint. In this clip the reported result is smaller than the full distance from the listed entry to the listed target, which is the ordinary case: plans specify risk precisely and reward approximately.

Does a 28-point stop with a 212-point win mean the strategy has a strong risk-reward ratio?

It means one documented trade had that geometry. A ratio observed once describes the shape of a single outcome, not the frequency with which that shape repeats — the same ratio is compatible with a profitable approach or an unprofitable one depending on how often the stop is hit instead. Turning a ratio into an expectancy requires a series of trades and a hit rate, neither of which a single-trade recap can supply.

How should I evaluate a trade shown as three price levels in a short video?

Treat the levels as one sample rather than a system: note the instrument, the risk distance relative to that instrument's normal range, and whether the entry condition is actually specified. Where a video does state its rules, Strategy Decoder extracts that structure so the logic can be evaluated and backtested on TradingView before any capital is committed.

About this strategy page

This trading strategy was decoded by Strategy Decoder's AI from a public YouTube trading video and turned into a structured, reviewable specification. In the interactive app this page shows the full entry and exit logic, risk management settings, the indicators involved with their parameters, AlgoWizard-compatible logic and a Pine Script export ready for TradingView backtesting — plus an automated backtest verdict when one has been computed for this strategy.

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