The TRAILING STOP, which is a facility which allows you to protect your profits from losses by raising the stop-loss step by step automatically.
What do you think about it. Is it good or not to use it?
The TRAILING STOP, which is a facility which allows you to protect your profits from losses by raising the stop-loss step by step automatically.
What do you think about it. Is it good or not to use it?
Last edited by Baguwah; 11-19-2011 at 10:12 AM. Reason: Grammar and spelling
Trailing the stop whether done automatically or manually is important in order to lock our profits, that what ever happens we are already assured of profits. I prefer manually trail stop than auto trails stop feature of MT4.
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Stop trailing has both good and bad benefits. Good is that it will raise our stop loss according to the price and bad thing is that it may close the trade too early as some trade will just go against as pullback and return to its original direction. For me trailing stop is a good thing but after a good move, the market begins to move against me, then I remove trailing stop and check for retracement and depending on that continue or close the trade.
MT5 luz3rrul3z (06-24-2012)
Yes, this is a very good I change the stoploss every 50 pips approximately
or I change it when the price is break support or resistance
in order to preserve part of profits, or protect myself from loss
there is nothing wrong in using a trailing stop loss, as a matter of fact trailing stop loss will help you to say your profit and at the same time increase your profit. So my answer is it is good to use a trailing stop loss if the need be.
The trailing stop is only good when you are taking long term trades targeting large profits as from 100 pips upwards. In this case, you intend to leave your pc on for the duration of the trade. If your pc goes off, then the trailing stop function is deactivated.
I would not use a trailing stop if my target is just 20 to 30 pips.