It's ok to take a small loss if something goes wrong. If you were wrong and the stock doesn't fire higher. 1st indication of that would be the stock starts to go down instead of up.
If you are buying the stock to hold that's one thing. But if it was only to sell the pop. Get out
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what is a good time frame to avoid being mislead by normal fluctuations on day trading ( 1min , 5min, etc )?
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