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What's your trading plan?

Discover why having a plan for your trades is crucial to your success.

Intermediate
Investing Strategies

Investing Strategies

Investing Strategies

Investing Strategies

Investing Strategies

Investing Strategies

One common behavior of successful traders involves creating a game plan before placing a trade. Game planning involves thinking a trade through from beginning to end, focusing on both positive and negative outcomes. In this recorded webinar, options professionals Colin Songer and Brian Isabelle, from Fidelity's Trading Strategy Desk, discussed having a plan of action for both scenarios—which allows you to make disciplined decisions regarding your trades, managing potential profits on winners and minimizing losses on losers.

Topics covered:

Why a game plan is crucial to determine next steps in your trade
How to create a game plan that is easy to follow and implement
How your game plan might change, and how to take action as a result

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Options trading entails significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. Certain complex options strategies carry additional risk. Before trading options, please read Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options. Supporting documentation for any claims, if applicable, will be furnished upon request.

Technical analysis focuses on market action — specifically, volume and price. Technical analysis is only one approach to analyzing stocks. When considering which stocks to buy or sell, you should use the approach that you're most comfortable with. As with all your investments, you must make your own determination as to whether an investment in any particular security or securities is right for you based on your investment objectives, risk tolerance, and financial situation. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

The Equity Summary Score is provided for informational purposes only, does not constitute advice or guidance, and is not an endorsement or recommendation for any particular security or trading strategy. The Equity Summary Score is provided by Thomson Reuters StarMine, an independent company not affiliated with Fidelity Investments. For more information and details, go to Fidelity.com.

There are additional costs associated with option strategies that call for multiple purchases and sales of options, such as spreads, straddles, and collars, as compared with a single option trade.

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