Earnings gaps ignore your stops. Either size down to survive any gap, exit before the print, or trade the POST-earnings drift once the dust settles. Holding size through earnings is gambling.
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The professional default into earnings is…
Triple the position
Reduce or exit, the gap risk is unpriceable correct
Ignore the date
You can't stop-loss through a gap. If you can't define the risk, don't hold the size.
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