What is the best trailing stop technique?  This is a question that many forex traders would have at one  point in their trading lives asked it.

In this post I will reveal the best trailing stop technique in my opinion.

You see, not every body is going to agree with me here because opinions may vary. That’s why you don’t have to believe what I’m going to write here.

You need to make up your own mind based on your own trading experience.

 

TTSD

Do you know what the TTSD stands for? The Trailing Stop Dilemma. What is the Trailing Stop Dilemma?

Its this:

where is the best place to place a trailing stop without getting stopped out prematurely  and at the same time, not too far away such that too much profit is eaten when price reverses.

Every forex trader at one stage would have wondered about the best trailing stop technique.

Lets face it, you wan’t to extract the maximum profit out from your trade, right? And in a trending market, the only way you can do that is to trail stop the market as long as you can until the market reverses and stops you out.

So how do you do that? Well, the next section below, I will show you how you can do this.

 

The Two Best Trailing Stop Techniques (In my opinion)

The best trailing stop techniques use support and resistance levels as the basis to trail stop trades that are profitable.

1. So in a downtrend, lower swing highs (resistance levels) that form as price continues to move lower give the best spots to trail stop your profitable trades.
2. In an uptrend, higher swing lows (support levels) that forms as price continues to move higher gives you the best spots to trail stop your profitable trades.

These two charts below reveal the best trailing stop technique.

Trailing Stop Technique For A Downtrend Market

• This first chart above shows you the market in a downtrend.
• After your trade is in profit, you wait for lower swing highs that form and just place your trailing stop a few pips above them.
• you trail stop your profitable trade until price moves back  up and intersects the most recent swing high, then you get stopped out with profit.

 

Trailing Stop Technique For An Uptrend Market

This second chart above shows you the best trailing stop technique for a buy trade that is in an uptrend market.

You see, in an uptrend market, price will go up but then fall back down to form these lower swing lows (which are essentially, support levels). These are the best places for you to place your trailing stop. Just place them a few pips behind.

Advantage of This Trailing Stop Technique

• Less chance of you getting stopped out of a trade prematurely.
• in a strong trending market, you can make a lot of profitable pips.

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