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LEARN FOREX: How to Effectively Use a Trailing Stop

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With this in mind, today we will examine how to effectively manage an open position using a trailing stop. First, it is important to know that a fixed trailing stop is an advanced entry order designed to move a stop forward a specificed amount of pips after a position has moved in your favor.

Traditionaly fixed trailing stops are used in conjuncture with a trending market strategy, to lock in profits on an extended move. Today we will take a look at a sample trade on the EURJPY 8HR chart pictured below, to examine how a trailing stop may work in our favor. The chart below depicts our initial entry to sell the EURJPY at To initially contain our risk there is a stop of pips being placed at The Chart above also depicts what will occur if the EURJPY moves in our favor as planned.

Since our trail is set to this means that if our trade moves pips in our favor our stop will update that same amount.

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In this example this means our first trail would update our stop to From here the trailing stop will continue to lock in profit every time the trade moves in our favor the selected amount.

It is important to remember that the trailing stop by design is designated to close our trade. At any point in time a trade may move against our position and close the position at the designated stopping point.

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If this occurs immediately in the example above our position would be closed for a pip loss. However, when using the benefits of a trailing stop we can then continue to lock in profit as the trend moves in our favor.

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