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Finance glossary

Trailing Stop

Trading · intermediate
Definition

A stop loss that moves with the price to lock in gains.

A trailing stop sets the exit at a fixed distance below the market price and automatically rises as the price rises, but never falls. It locks in profits while letting winners run. If the price reverses by the trailing amount, the position closes, removing the need to manually adjust stops.

In a sentence

A 10% trailing stop let his winner keep climbing while automatically locking in gains if it reversed.

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