The main concept to understand behind pyramiding, is that it allows you to ‘play with the market’s money’ because as a trade moves in your favor you trail your stop loss down (or up) to lock in profit when you add another position. Also, since you’ll be trailing your stop loss perhaps tighter than you would on a non-pyramid trade, as the trade moves in your favor it increases the chances of the market snapping back against you and stopping you out of the entire position. Now that we’ve discussed what it means to ‘play with the markets money’ and the potential risks in pyramiding, let’s talk about how to pyramid properly, so that you can avoid the major risks of pyramiding but still having a chance at large gains…