Comments on: Trailing Stop ../index.html Financial Education from Arclight Capital Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:24:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Anonymous ../index.html#comment-369062 Wed, 20 May 2026 20:09:10 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-369062 Hi All, It looks as though the ARC representative hasn’t been around here for a while, but dropping a note to join this conversation in the hopes of finding a much needed answer anyway. I’ve been trying to first find, then failing that, recreate a Trailing Take Profit order for some time now, and despite mine and Chat GPT’s best efforts, I can’t for the life of me figure out why ARC is preventing it’s users from implementing it? Someone on another thread here claims that ARC recently removed this order type. Why they would do that, I don’t know. It’s the simplest composite order ever, and only requires 2 numbers to define it. 1) Price moves in your favourable direction (Short = down, Long = up). 2) When your Trigger Price is reached, instead of exiting the trade, this triggers a Trailing Stop to take over. 3) The price is free continue further in a favourable direction. 4) At any point, once the price pulls back by the trailing amount, the trade is exited. Statistically more profitably. The only two numbers required: Trigger price. Trail amount. Could also be implemented as a Trailing Stop Limit instead of a simple TSL. When I’ve tried recreating this behaviour in TWS with a Conditional Trailing Stop, it won’t allow this combination of instructions. “Conditional order can not be of this order type”. Very frustrating and disappointing. Any help from anyone is much appreciated. Regards. SBT

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By: Anonymous ../index.html#comment-368501 Mon, 18 May 2026 18:14:31 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-368501 In reply to Anonymous.

this is how I tried to set adjustable trailing stop in preset — the sell stop order is not converting into a trailing stop and giving error.. below is the detailed setup i did In the attached-stop order section – auto-attach-stop-type – I selected adjustable stop set initial stop loss as -50% stop limit and trailing stop – left blank then under Adjusted stop fields adjusted trigger price – I set it to parent order and offset to 10 ticks adjusted stop price – I set it to 2 ticks then adjusted trailing amount to 5 cents once the order is submitted, I dont see the order change into trail

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By: Anonymous ../index.html#comment-368446 Mon, 18 May 2026 17:08:59 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-368446 hi, how to set adjustable trailing stop in option presets , please help

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By: Anonymous ../index.html#comment-346754 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:49:49 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-346754 how to set up a buy with a stop loss. buy with a bracket to sell when it hits a percentage profit. too much on sell set ups. Not enough on buy set ups.

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By: Arclight Capital ../index.html#comment-331077 Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:42:02 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-331077 In reply to neoraiden.

Thank you for contacting ARC. To address your concern/inquiry, we need a few more details about the situation and your account; unfortunately, ARC Campus is not a secure channel to share this information. We kindly ask that you contact our Client Services team for further assistance via web ticket using the link below. https://spr.ly/IBKR_TicketCampus

We appreciate your understanding.

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By: neoraiden ../index.html#comment-330854 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:32:30 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-330854 Hi, I have been testing the trailing stop and I can’t seem to get the trail to work, as well as have some issues with the time taken to make the initial purchase order with some laying dormant for a while – over a minute or not executing. I have set the trail to between 0.1% and 2% and it just hasn’t triggered on multiple orders when theoretically from what I could see it should have triggered during the day.

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By: Arclight Capital ../index.html#comment-329842 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:18:04 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-329842 In reply to IQ.

Hi, thank you for reaching out. For scenario #1, the order is sent as a market order and is filled at the market price (this could change from 1.92). Scenario #2 is how the algorithm works. For your additional question, if you leave it blank the Stop or trigger price will automatically be set to the last trade price minus the trail amount. We hope this helps!

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By: Arclight Capital ../index.html#comment-327028 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:19:16 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-327028 In reply to Anonymous.

Hi, thank you for reaching out. What categories? For more information on this Order Type, please review this webpage: ../../../../en/trading/ordertypes.html?m=trailingLimitModal

We would appreciate the opportunity to help turn around your experience.

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By: Anonymous ../index.html#comment-326825 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:50:23 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-326825 Why is trailing stops order’s avaliability is limited to certain categories?

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By: Arclight Capital ../index.html#comment-320165 Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:16:37 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-320165 In reply to Scott.

Hi Scott, yes this is possible. Right click the security you would like to sell in the watchlist. Then the Order Ticket will show up. Click “Sell Order”, “Advanced” and Trailing Stop is an available Order Type. We hope this helps answer your question.

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By: Scott ../index.html#comment-317928 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:22:42 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-317928 In reply to Arclight Capital.

Hello, is this feature really available on Desktop and selling shares? I do not see an advanced or Trailing Stop anywhere. Could you please explain in more detail, It would be great if it was just an option on the sell pulldown.

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By: Arclight Capital ../index.html#comment-314467 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:03:38 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-314467 In reply to Anonymous.

Hello, thank you for asking. This is not possible at this time. However, we have passed your feedback to the appropriate team. Please review this FAQ on where you can leave your feedback, and submit any specific suggestion(s) on how we can improve:
https://www.ibkr.com/faq?id=32653353
You can also post in the Feature Poll in Client Portal where other ARC users can comment and vote:
https://arclightcapital.cc/portal/#/suggestions

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By: Anonymous ../index.html#comment-312642 Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:28:47 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-312642 (Meant, for desktop version and/or TWS)

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By: Anonymous ../index.html#comment-312641 Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:25:10 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-312641 Once a trailing stop is in place, is it possible to drag the trailing stop on the chart to adjust it (desktop version)?

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By: Leo ../index.html#comment-310108 Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:22:48 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-310108 Are this orders valid on the pre/after market and overnight?

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By: Arclight Capital ../index.html#comment-308121 Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:41:54 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-308121 In reply to Brian Chan.

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By: Arclight Capital ../index.html#comment-307296 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:35:04 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-307296 In reply to Anonymous.

Hello, thank you for reaching out. Yes, the same order ID will be returned over the EWrapper.openOrder function in the auxPrice or trailingStopPrice fields of the order object returned. We hope this helps answer your question!

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By: Anonymous ../index.html#comment-305106 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:16:35 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-305106 I place trail orders via TWS API. Can I get updates of the current stop price via the API after placing the order?

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By: Yoshi Roni Sir ../index.html#comment-299334 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:59:57 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-299334 In reply to Mr YEHOSHOA AHARONI.

MR lol.

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By: Brian Chan ../index.html#comment-297862 Sun, 29 Jun 2025 07:41:45 +0000 https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/trailing-stop/#comment-297862 Can I specify decimal percentage in trail stop order? Looks like only whole number is available on the mobile app

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