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Trailing stop
6 guides in Finabase Learn
- Parabolic SAR: how stop-and-reverse works, step by step How Wilder’s Parabolic SAR trails price with an accelerating stop, a bar-by-bar calculation on Alphabet, its real win/loss record over a year, and Finabase’s settings.
- Set price, percent and indicator alerts in Stock Master Create Stock Master alerts for a price, a daily or total percent move, volume, a trailing stop or an indicator turning bullish or bearish, and manage them.
- Set price, percent and indicator alerts on finabase.io Set Finabase alerts on the web for price levels, daily moves, volume, trailing stops and indicator signals, delivered by push in Stock Master or email.
- Stock order types explained: market, limit, stop and more How market, limit, stop, stop-limit, trailing-stop, on-close and conditional orders work in US markets, what each one guarantees, and how to choose between them.
- Stop-loss placement: volatility, structure and time stops Where traders place stop-losses (ATR multiples, chart structure, percentages, time) and why a stop order never guarantees its price, shown on a real AAPL gap.
- Trailing stop orders: percent vs dollar trails, with real examples How a trailing stop ratchets with the price, how percent and dollar trails differ, a step-by-step worked path, and 10% vs 15% trails tested on Tesla in 2026.
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