How To Secure Your Profits And Minimize Losses With Parabolic Trailing Stop Loss Posted By: Mikhail A.

A stop loss is an order that you place with your broker in order to sell a certain security once it reaches a certain price. Therefore, stop losses, or stop orders are designed to limit the investors losses. When it comes to trailing stops, there are more complex rules for automatically shifting the SL orders depending on the market conditions. The trailing SL behavior is chosen by the trader, accordingly to his specific trading style and strategy.

Many traders are trying to outsmart the market without setting a stop loss order. However, how many pips can you allow the market to move against you? 50, 100, 300? And how do you handle these situations when huge losses are incurred due to your stubbornness? These situations are definitely a torture for any Forex or Stock trader who has not learnt his lesson on placing a stop yet.

The only thing more powerful and useful for minimizing your losses in Forex than a stop order is a trailing stop order. As you are taking profit, your stop loss will move in your favor a certain amount of pips that you can set according to the rules of your system. Hence, if the market moves against your opened position, the stop loss will remain on the position it trailed last, and exit the trade if the price action hits it. If for instance you are buying EUR/USD at 1.3100 with a stop loss at 1.3000, and the market price rises up by 100 pips, your stoploss may be shifted to breakeven. Then you will only be risking your profits, while an additional further movement upwards will guarantee you will exit the order in profit, as the trialing stop will rise along.

If you want to take this a step further, you can use the LOCTrailing Expert Advisor for MetaTrader, and forget about moving your stop loss. This EA has 8 different trailing methods that you can select from: Simple, Parabolic, Bollinger Bands, X bars back, ATRStop, Approaching or Kijun-sen. The Parabolic trailing stop method is widely used by Forex and Stock professional traders and has been proven to be one of the best ways to secure opened positions. LOCTrailings Parabolic trailing stop algorithm follows this method and also allows you to customize the parameters of the Parabolic SAR indicator, if you feel that it is necessary.

Additionally, all your orders are tracked by comments, and you can also see what is happening with your orders in real time by looking at the live visual info box on your charts. The breakeven SL functionality will drastically reduce the number of unprofitable trades on the long run, regardless of whether you are using a 4 digit or 5 digit account, as this trailing stop expert advisors works just as well on both types of accounts. You can use it on any pair or timeframe you wish, and you can customize it to match any type of trading strategy you are using. Besides from being able to choose from 8 different stop trailing algorithms, you can also set the trailing to start when you are in profit or at any predefined levels you want.

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