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Commenting on the PMI data, Nils Müller, Junior Economist at Hamburg Commercial Bank, said:
“October’s PMI data suggest that Italy’s manufacturing sector may be approaching a turning point. The headline index rose
to 49.9, up from 49.0 in September, signalling a near-stabilisation in operating conditions. Although the sector remains in
mild contraction, a notable improvement in business confidence hints at a shift in momentum.
“Output returned to modest growth, supported by new customer acquisitions and selective increases in sales, even as
overall demand remained subdued. New orders continued to decline, albeit only fractionally, while export sales fell for a fifth
consecutive month, weighed down by weaker demand from key markets such as France and Germany. Despite this, firms
were able to reduce backlogs at a sharp pace, indicating that production capacity exceeded incoming workloads.
Employment edged lower, though this was largely due to voluntary departures and contract expirations rather than active
downsizing.
“Input cost inflation accelerated to a seven-month high, driven by rising raw material and shipping prices. Notably, some
firms also reported that suppliers had increased their fees given tariff implications. Nonetheless, firms opted to reduce their
selling prices in an effort to stimulate demand amid strong competition. The rate of discounting was the steepest in eight
months, underscoring the pressure on margins and the challenging pricing environment.
“Encouragingly, business confidence improved markedly, reaching its highest level in over a year. Over half of surveyed
firms anticipate higher output in the coming 12 months, buoyed by expectations of new client wins, stronger order inflows
and product launches. While the sector remains in a fragile state, overall, the data point to a cautiously improving outlook.”
This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.
Welcome to tradeCompass: A Trusted Map for Traders
tradeCompass was created to solve that problem. But you have to be disciplined.
It gives you a simple and structured method to navigate the markets with discipline and confidence.
Each tradeCompass publication on investingLive.com defines, for that day and tradeable asset, when the market turns bullish and when it turns bearish so that you can focus on clear signals rather than emotions or noise.
tradeCompass is designed primarily for short-term traders such as day traders and swing traders.
It covers Nasdaq, S&P 500, major stocks, crypto, commodities, and currencies, all through futures prices.
Even if you trade on a CFD platform, you can easily follow the same futures prices, thresholds, and profit targets and trade in full synchronization with the analysis published on investingLive.com.
Why Taking Partial Profits Changes Everything for Traders Who Follow tradeCompass
At investingLive, Head of Strategy, Itai Levitan, emphasizes that taking partial profits is not only about making money. It is about protecting it and building consistency. By staying realistic, and taking a portion of profit as price reaches your first target, you reduce risk, remove emotional pressure, and still give the remaining position a chance to benefit from a (less frequent) larger move.
Risk management:
When your first target is hit, you close part of your position and move your stop on the rest to breakeven. You have locked in profit and eliminated the risk of turning a winner into a loser.
Consistent account growth:
Small, steady wins compound over time. The goal is not to find one perfect trade but to develop a repeatable process that grows your account in measured steps.
Improved risk to reward:
Once you take partial profit and protect the remainder with a breakeven stop, even one strong runner can offset several smaller losses.
Psychological advantage:
Securing profit provides peace of mind. It helps you stay calm, avoid panic, and trade from a place of control instead of fear.
How Partial Profits Fit the tradeCompass Framework
Each tradeCompass defines two thresholds for the day or week:
This approach gives you structure and eliminates bias. Many traders are surprised by how effective it is once they start using it properly.
By following the plan exactly as it is written and respecting the rule of one trade per direction per compass, you naturally stop overtrading, avoid revenge trades, and gain back the focus needed for real progress.
How it works
tradeCompass identifies the key technical levels such as VWAP, Value Area High and Low, Point of Control, and high-volume nodes. These act as natural price magnets and partial-profit targets.
The Discipline Rule That Builds Professionals
Only one trade per direction per compass.
This simple rule has saved many traders from spiraling into emotional and financial loss.
Once your long or short plan is executed and concluded, whether it ends in profit or at breakeven, you are done trading that direction until the next compass is published.
This rule stops overtrading, prevents revenge entries, and keeps you aligned with the structured, data-driven rhythm that professionals follow.
Stop Placement and Risk Control
Your stop should make sense relative to your trade idea.
If you are long above the bullish threshold, place the stop slightly below it, not beyond the opposite bearish activation.
If you are short, it belongs just above the bullish threshold.
Once the first target is hit and partial profits are taken, move your stop to breakeven.
From that point forward, your risk is removed and your only outcomes are breakeven or further profit.
Rarely widen a stop after entering a trade. And when you are inexperienced, never widen that stop.
Adjust size if necessary, but keep discipline intact.
For Traders Still Searching for Consistency
If you have been chasing new systems, relying on random signal groups, or switching timeframes every few minutes, it is time to pause.
Most traders fail not because they lack intelligence but because they lack structure and emotional control.
tradeCompass gives you both.
It is not another indicator or prediction model. It is a decision support framework that defines your thresholds, targets, and trade logic before emotions take over.
Losses will still happen. That is part of trading. Most professional trading firm that reach a 60% win rate know they have fantastic win rates.
The difference is that with tradeCompass, losses are controlled, profits are managed intelligently, and you are trading with a professional mindset. More importantly is the RR ratio (risk reward ratio), which basically means that, on average and long term, each average win is significanly bigger than each average loss. If you are winning $150 on each of 5 winning trades and losing $100 on each of 5 losing trades, your win rate is 50%, you won $750, lost $500, and ended up with a $250 profit. Let’s go further into that important aspect of risk and risk control…
Understanding Drawdown and the tradeCompass Risk Logic
There is no traders, and there will, most likely never be one, that does not lose. But a winner needs to win more than she or he loses. We must start with understanding the loss, not the win (which what pros do and amateurs do not).
Example with $100 risk per trade
Imagine you take 10 trades.
You win on 5 trades and lose on 5 trades.
Each time you win, you make $150.
Each time you lose, you lose $100.
Let’s calculate the outcome.
5 winning trades × $150 = $750 gained
5 losing trades × $100 = $500 lost
Net result: $750 minus $500 equals $250 profit after 10 trades.
Even with only a 50% win rate, you are profitable because your average win ($150) is larger than your average loss ($100).
Your Risk Reward Ratio in this case is 1.5 to 1.
ROI and expectancy
If your trading account is $5,000 and you risk $100 per trade, you are risking 2% per trade.
After 10 trades:
You made $250 net profit, according to the example from the previous section above, this equals a +5% ROI on your account ($250 ÷ $5,000 = 0.05).
Your expectancy, which means the average amount you can expect to make per trade over time, is:
(Win rate × average win) – (Loss rate × average loss)
(0.5 × $150) – (0.5 × $100)
= +$25 per trade on average.
This means that if you trade consistently under the same rules, you can expect to earn about $25 per trade on average, in this example. Again, that is 0.5% of your account, in this example when you started with $5k and risking $100 (2%) per trade. Also, when you’re just starting out, you can trade micro contracts or simply find a way to risk 0.2% per trade, and not 2% per trade. Why? Because you might not stay disciplined, which happens to 90% of traders, and bust out once you lose your disciplined path.
Theoretical vs. realistic drawdown
Now let’s talk about drawdown, the amount your account could drop during a losing streak.
Worst case (theoretical maximum drawdown):
If you lost all 10 trades in a row, and each loss was $100, you would lose $1,000, or 20% of your account ($1,000 ÷ $5,000 = 0.20).
That is the worst possible scenario if you took full losses on every trade, within those 10 consecutive trades, without any partial profits or breakeven exits.
Realistic drawdown (with tradeCompass discipline):
When following tradeCompass principles such as taking partial profits, moving stops to breakeven, and limiting yourself to one trade per direction, you will rarely take so many full losses back to back.
Some trades will lock in partial gains before reversing, others will close at breakeven, and you might skip a few during uncertain conditions.
Because of this, most disciplined traders see realistic drawdowns between 5% and 15%, depending on their consistency.
The key takeaway
Key Technical Concepts You Will See in tradeCompass
VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price):
The average traded price weighted by volume, representing fair market value. It is one of the most common first profit-taking levels.
POC (Point of Control):
The price where the highest traded volume occurred. Price often gravitates back to it, making it a reliable target or magnet.
Value Area High and Low (VAH, VAL):
The upper and lower boundaries of the value area, where most of the day’s trading activity took place. These often serve as important reversal or continuation zones.
High Volume Nodes:
Areas where significant volume accumulated. Price tends to pause or react around these zones, making them logical areas for partial profit
A Word to the Trader Still Looking for Direction
If you have been feeling inconsistent, you are not alone. Every experienced trader started exactly where you are now. And a hidden secret? Most profitable traders also had at least one bust out / account burnt, even if they were previosuly profitable. At least they had a big drawdown more than they even planned.
The difference is that professionals build discipline and follow a structured plan every single day.
tradeCompass is that plan.
It shows you where the market turns, where to take profits, and when to stop trading for the session.
It helps you think like a professional, trade with purpose, and grow your capital over time.
Use tradeCompass as an educational and decision-support tool.
Trade at your own risk and always remember that no system removes risk completely.
The goal is to manage risk wisely and trade with clarity. The goal is to get better at trading every day, staying professional and disciplined. It is about the correct path to the goal and not only about the goal.
If you’re serious and ready, then see you at the next tradeComapss at investingLive.com
This article was written by Itai Levitan at investinglive.com.
The agency notes that protectionist policies continually weigh on the industry but add that the mood has improved since September. The manufacturing PMI has never been above 50.0 since January 2023, but the trend has been to the upside since the trough in July 2023.
This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.
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Markets The US dollar pushed beyond the first technical boundaries going into the weekly and monthly close. EUR/USD fell below the previous October low of 1.1542 last Friday, setting the stage for a revisit of the August trough at 1.1392. USD/JPY consolidated around 154 after a sharp rally the day before with a better bid […]
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Key findings:
Comment:
Commenting on the PMI data, Jonas Feldhusen, Junior Economist at Hamburg Commercial Bank, said:
“Spain’s manufacturing industry continued its upward trajectory in October, as reflected in the improvement of the headline
PMI. The expansion was underpinned by solid production activity and a pickup in new business.
“Beneath the surface of this encouraging growth, however, some signs of strain are emerging. Export orders declined during
the month, with several surveyed firms pointing to a cooling in demand from France. Political instability there appears to be
increasingly weighing on economic activity, with knock-on effects for Spanish exporters. In addition, protectionist measures
from the United States are likely adding pressure to international order books.
“Labour market signals are also turning cautious: for the second consecutive month, firms have scaled back their hiring
activities. This stands in contrast to the order situation and rising backlogs of work. The reluctance to expand headcount
seems less structural and more tactical, likely driven by external uncertainties. Should demand remain firm, a rebound in
employment dynamics could follow swiftly.
“Meanwhile, both input costs and output prices in the manufacturing sector edged down in October. Companies reported
falling prices for a range of materials, which fed through into their pricing strategies. Alongside lower costs, efforts to
stimulate demand likely contributed to the modest price adjustments.”
This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.
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