Chat With Traders 309 · Diego Ivan Cortes Lopez - Winning Through Losing: When 30% Is Enough
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Oct 21, 2025 Diego Ivan Cortes Lopez, a Dallas-raised trader now living in Southeast Asia, shares his unique approach to trading large-cap stocks with a 30% win rate. He explains how his tennis background taught him discipline, leading to his trading philosophy focused on support and resistance. After a significant loss, he found mentorship with Oliver Velez and mastered risk management. Diego emphasizes trading only the first hour daily for simplicity and speaks about the psychology of embracing loss as a path to success.
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Use 20/200 MAs For Market State
- Use the 20 and 200 simple moving averages to gauge market state and avoid fighting wide trending conditions.
- Be cautious going against the trend when the moving averages are far apart.
Prefer Tight Stops And Reentries
- Place stops just beyond the tail bar or reversal structure low and reenter only a limited number of times after shakeouts.
- Prefer small monetary stops and accept more frequent small losses over rare large ones.
Keep Position Size Consistent
- Keep position sizing uniform since you can't predict which trades will become the day's big winners.
- Use small-dollar risk with deeper entries to allow heavier sizing without larger downside on initial stops.