🧩 Topics Covered:

• When Stop-Loss Fails: Using the Lock Strategy to Pause Losses
  
  

• Locking vs. Stop Loss – Tactical Comparison
  
  

• Conditions That Warrant Locking: News Volatility, Sudden Reversals, False Breakouts
  
  

• Unlocking with Logic: Trend Reconfirmation, Breakout Signals, Momentum Shift
  
  

• Live Mentor Example: Entry → Lock → Unlock → Exit – Full Breakdown
  
  

• Managing Risk & Lot Size Within a Locked Trade

🎯 What You Will Learn:

✔ How to apply the Locking Strategy when the market moves against your position unexpectedly

✔ Why locking is a smarter alternative than closing a losing trade in panic

✔ How to identify optimal unlock points using price action and confirmation tools

✔ Key differences between locking, stop-loss, and emotional exits

✔ Mentor’s real trade breakdown: how a failed setup was rescued with a lock-unlock plan

✔ Risk control techniques and lot sizing during locked trades

🎯 Why it Matters:

✥ Most retail traders panic, close at a loss, and jump into revenge trades.

✥ Pro traders respond differently—they lock, step back, and wait for clarity.

✥ This strategy preserves capital, gives you time to think, and removes the emotion from decision-making.

✥ Learning when and how to unlock your position is where strategy meets psychology.

✥ It's a recovery tool for when things don’t go your way—and a mark of true trading maturity.

Day 18 | Lock, Unlock, and Dominate – Strategic Recovery When Stop Loss Fails