BTW. About trades against a trend and entry averaging.
1. Average only what is possible to. Zero is not a bottom. Say Hi to crude oil futures with negative prices in April.
2. Short is harder to average. Prices doesn't have a ceiling above.
3. Don't open high leverage trades. A loss of 50% of account will require you to earn twice as much to get to a breakeven. Loss of 80% require you to quadruple your account to get to a breakeven. Creepy. Write it down on your monitor.
4. Increase your orders while price drops (7%-13%-30%-50% of trading margin not a whole account).
5. Don't allocate 100% of your account for one trade (in the most greedy strategy leave 50% for hedging at least).
The averaging strategy does not contradict with stop-losses. Average your long-term positions only. Use stop-loss for short-term speculative trades.
The main thing: trend is your friend, try to catch it instead of disregarding it.