There are several matters that have to be taken into consideration when you make use of the trailing stop facility.
It is not unlike using a ratchet in the sense that it can only move in one direction for example it can be set to only move up but not down. When you move into profit, it follows behind, moving up by the same number of predetermined pips that you have set in the same direction as the market has moved.
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