Trailing Stop

A trailing stop is a dynamic stop loss that follows the price at a specified distance as the trade moves in your favor. If EUR/USD rises, a trailing stop on a long position moves up accordingly, locking in profits. If the price reverses, the stop stays at its highest locked-in level and triggers if hit. This lets you capture extended trends while systematically protecting gains on the way up.

Trailing stops can be set in several ways. A fixed pip trailing stop (for example, 40 pips) keeps exactly 40 pips distance from each new high. A percentage trail uses a percentage of price. An ATR-based trail adjusts for recent volatility so the stop gives the trade room during expected fluctuations without getting shaken out. ATR-based trails are especially useful because they scale automatically to changes in market conditions rather than using a one-size-fits-all distance.

For example, if you buy EUR/USD at 1.0850 with a 40 pip trailing stop, the initial stop sits at 1.0810. If the price climbs to 1.0900, the trailing stop moves up to 1.0860, locking in at least 10 pips of profit. If it continues to 1.0950, the stop trails to 1.0910, now guaranteeing 60 pips of profit. A reversal from 1.0950 back to 1.0910 takes you out with a $600 gain on a standard lot, rather than watching the trade round-trip to break-even or worse.

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