Trailing Stop
Trade MechanicsA stop-loss that automatically follows a winning trade at a fixed distance, locking in more profit as price moves in your favor.
A trailing stop is a stop-loss that automatically moves in the trade's favor as the price moves favorably, maintaining a fixed distance behind the current price, but it never moves back against you. It lets a trader lock in progressively more profit on a winning trade without having to manually adjust the stop level.
If the market reverses, the trailing stop stays at its most recent level and triggers a close once price falls back to it — turning an open profit into a realized (if smaller) gain rather than letting it round-trip back to a loss.