One of the questions I get asked all the time is:

“Barrie, how do I know when to take profits without getting out too early?”

Today’s AI alert in $LUNR is a great real-world example of how I approach that.To Subscribe to Trade Ideas:
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Our AI triggered an alert in $LUNR at $12.92. If you took that trade, you were quickly rewarded as the stock pushed higher and reached around $14.30 on the five-minute chart.

Now, at that point, I’m absolutely thinking about taking some money off the table. That’s just good trade management. When you get a fast move like that, locking in partial profits makes sense.

But here’s the key—I’m not getting out of the entire position.

Why?
Because the TradeWave was still blue.

As long as the wave stays blue, the trend is still working in your favor. I didn’t see a transition to orange, which would have suggested a more meaningful change in trend. Without that signal, there’s no reason to panic or assume the move is over.

So instead of guessing:

• I take some profit near the highs
• I hold the rest
• I let the TradeWave keep me in the trade

This is exactly how you avoid cutting your winners short.

A lot of traders try to predict the top. That’s not my job. My job is to stay aligned with the trend for as long as it’s there. The TradeWave does that work for me.

If you’re ever unsure about when to take profits, don’t overthink it.

Use the TradeWave.
Let the color change tell you when the character of the trade is changing.

That’s what made this $LUNR trade a great one.