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For most people they just cut winners early, let’s be honest

trailing stops work best when you actually size them to the asset's volatility, not just slap on a fixed % and hope.. most people get stopped out right before continuation because their trail is tighter than the stock's natural noise floor, which just means they're trading the stop, not the move.

A complexity for nothing unless you are bored and have time. Take your profit and go or watch the chart and close it until you want to close. Trailing SL means you it had reversed and you lose quite a bit

It depends on the market conditions let's take gold for example , in the condition it is in now.. runner's are typically not great before when the markets was calm gold could run then normally what I would do is set my BE when it gets to 100 pips in profit but market conditions now I will size up bigger and pull profits quick when my setup comes

i scalp precise ticks, so i dont trail stops.

Depends on your timeframe and how tight or loose the stop is.

I don't use them but I DO pull my stop losses up to breakeven+ once I hit .8R on a high beta or 1.0 on a calmer stock. I would much rather leave a little profit on the table than be exposed to losing everything (which is what everyone in here has experienced before). Greed will murder you. When people try to sell at the absolute apex of the day, they end up losing so much more than they would have given up had they sold somewhere along the way (and hopefully you have that price/profit point already calculated).

Generally what you want to do is take some pieces off into extensions and then leave a part of your position on to trail.

Having a well designed trailing stop is what 98% of traders miss)

Trail SL mostly improve backtest results only. Usually you get much lower win rate and end up having tight trail stops, together with lots of trades. On realtime tracking I have not found them robust after real trading cost. Also you definitely to test your strategies with tick data, otherwise Trailing Stops are easily totally misleading.

Entirely depends on how your individual edge plays out, and the specific method you use to trail the stop. I have strategies where it does improve expectancy and strategies where it doesn’t. And I know this because I review every single trade I take to collect the hard data over time. There is no universal right answer here. What matters most is the data that everyone individually collects from their own testing and trade review. But FWIW, I know that at least three of the traders in the next market wizards book have talked publicly about trailing stops (and using relatively simple systems to do so).