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Contrarian Trading Neural network technology and trading systems Profit Target Exits Gunning Slippage Contrarian Trading Testing speed Linear Programming Optimization & Curve-Fitting What if the Markets Change? Monte Carlo Simulations Walk-Forward Testing What are genetic algorithms? A Plan for Identifying and Trading Pullbacks Automated Trading Systems for Financial Markets and Recommendations for Their Usage Contrarian Trading - liquidation long position when most traders are buying, and liquidation short position when most traders are selling.This operation will make it easier to quickly close out a trade, and to do so at an excellent price, without slippage. Profit targets usually exit into liquidity in the sense just discussed. Certain volatility exits also achieve an exit into liquidity. Selling at a blowoff top, for example, is selling into a buying frenzy! "Buy the rumor, sell the news" also suggests the benefits of selling when everyone starts buying. Of course, not all the exits in an exit strategy can be of a kind that takes advantage of exiting into liquidity.