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Trailing Stop Tick Size

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dmc009 July 19, 2015, 2:10pm 1

When using a trailing stop order is it better to use a 5 tick or 10 tick trailing stop order?

skeltonmark July 21, 2015, 8:50pm 2

DMC It all depends on what system or strategy you are trading? What bar sizes are you using to trade that market? Are you scalping or trend trading? Are you trading futures, fx, or nadex spreads? if you can give a little more info we can try to point you in the right place thanks

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