Scaling Into a Winning Position
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Adding to an open trade is a risk-management decision, not a feeling. Nick walks through a live Ethereum intraday trade he scaled into on one of his own funds: the original entry off a fresh anchor and new bullish trend, then a second intraday buy firing in the same direction while the first position was still open. You'll see the exact criteria he used (back-to-back same-direction intraday signals — a cousin of the double-confirmation setup, but intraday-only), why the add was sized at half the original position, how the total risk changed, and how he moved the first position's stop to lock in more than break-even after adding. The rule: define your scale-in criteria in advance, write them down, and never add just because a trade is floating in profit. Scaling in when price returns to your original entry is covered in a separate lesson.
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