Active Trade Management: Trailing Stops & Partial Taking

Successfully entering an order is only half the way. The remaining half of the journey that determines whether you can bring home money or not is the **art of active order management** (Active Trade Management).

1. Breakeven Trap

Many traders are afraid of losing money, so as soon as the price makes a small profit (about 1R), they immediately move the Stop Loss to the breakeven point (Breakeven - BE).
This is a serious mistake. The market rarely goes in a straight line, it continuously creates Retracements to scan short-term liquidity (scan old FVG/OB) and then continue to follow the main trend. Moving SL to BE too early will cause you to continuously break even and miss the strong rising waves behind.

2. Partial Take Profit Technique

Partial profit taking helps protect psychology extremely effectively, especially during highly volatile trading sessions. Scientific profit-taking techniques advise you:

• At the 1:2 R:R or 1:3 R:R mark: Proactively close from 50% to 70% of order volume. This ensures that even if the market turns unexpectedly, you will still make a significant net profit.
• The remaining volume (Runner): Move the stop loss to a safe level and let the price freely run to the final profit target on the large time frame (HTF BSL/SSL).