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Condition

trailing_stop
exit

Trailing stop from the extreme price since entry; trail distance is either an ATR multiple (atr_mult) or a percent (trail_pct)

Category

Risk management

Discriminator

card_type = "trailing_stop"

Roles

exit

Required fields

None.

Optional fields

activation_pctanyOf (2 variants)Minimum profit % before trailing stop activates. None = activate immediately on entry.
atr_multiplieranyOf (2 variants)-
atr_periodanyOf (2 variants)-
card_typestring-
trail_pctanyOf (2 variants)Trail distance as a percent of the extreme price since entry. Mutually exclusive with atr_mult.
update_ruleenum: max, min-
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