Thanks for the advice everyone. I play $25-$150/200 DD only. And I always have more than enough cash on hand for the big swings. Usually around 3x my hourly standard deviation. I've structured my bets to potentially look like a ploppy with a voodoo system the best that I can and don't consider my "timer" to start until I've reached a $100 bet level. A more clear wording of my concern would be whether or not being "satisfied" with a $500 win regardless of outside factors, was a good idea in correlation to a stop loss of ~$1000. But it seems like while the stop loss is fine assuming any positive position was played out, no profit goal should be set. Now that I'm reading this out, it seems pretty silly. If I made only $500 per win, stopping at -$1000, I'd have to win 2:1 just to break even. Playing the short sessions that I do, that high of a win percentage would be nearing fantasy land.