<p>You might have been confused about what a "Trailing Stop Loss" really is. (Or I do missunderstood your question.)</p>

<p>The answer can be found on Bitstamp's website: <a href="https://www.bitstamp.net/article/stop-orders-and-trailing-stop-orders/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.bitstamp.net/article/stop-orders-and-trailing-stop-orders/</a></p>

<blockquote>
  <p>What is Trailing Stop Order and how to use it?</p>
  
  <p>The trailing stop is more flexible than a fixed stop loss, since it
  automatically tracks the bitcoin’s price direction and does not have
  to be manually reset like the fixed stop loss.</p>
  
  <p>For example: Market price of bitcoin is $480 and you placed a Stop
  Sell Order at $450, which is in our case $30 below the current market
  price. Suppose price of bitcoins suddenly increases to $550. You are
  now in chance of “locking in” even bigger profit by manually
  repositioning your Stop Sell Order to higher price.</p>
  
  <p>Repositioning your Stop Order can be done automatically for you by
  enabling “Trailing Stop” function. In our case Trailing Stop Order
  will automatically reposition active Stop Order if price of bitcoin
  increases while maintaining spread of $30 between the bitcoins spot
  price and Stop Order.</p>
</blockquote>

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<p>a Trailing Stop limit Order is clear in my mind.
You want to sell your stock when the price starts to fall after reaching a max;
or you want to buy a stock after the price starts to rise after a minimum.
So far so good.</p>

<p>Bitstamp however only has the trailing options for stop loss orders
(see pic).
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/d8Prf.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/d8Prf.png" alt="Stop loss orders on bitstamp"></a></p>

<p>This does not make sense in my mind: <em>"I would want to wait for a minimum price and than sell when it starts to grow again?"</em> Non sense. The same non sense applies for stop buy trailing orders.</p>

<p>In the picture bellow i plot 4 graphs with MY UNDERSTANDING of these options.
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/3bSAP.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/3bSAP.png" alt="MY UNDERSTANDING of these options"></a></p>

<p>Please help me understand what Bitstamp means with that.</p>

<p>Thx a lot!</p>

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What does "Trailing Stop buy Order" on Bitstamp mean?
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# What does "Trailing Stop buy Order" on Bitstamp mean?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-13)

a Trailing Stop limit Order is clear in my mind.
You want to sell your stock when the price starts to fall after reaching a max;
or you want to buy a stock after the price starts to rise after a minimum.
So far so good.

Bitstamp however only has the trailing options for stop loss orders
(see pic).
[![Stop loss orders on bitstamp](https://i.sstatic.net/d8Prf.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/d8Prf.png)

This does not make sense in my mind: *"I would want to wait for a minimum price and than sell when it starts to grow again?"* Non sense. The same non sense applies for stop buy trailing orders.

In the picture bellow i plot 4 graphs with MY UNDERSTANDING of these options.
[![MY UNDERSTANDING of these options](https://i.sstatic.net/3bSAP.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/3bSAP.png)

Please help me understand what Bitstamp means with that.

Thx a lot!

**Tags:** trading, currencies, bitstamp


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-02-08. Score: 2

You might have been confused about what a "Trailing Stop Loss" really is. (Or I do missunderstood your question.)

The answer can be found on Bitstamp's website: <https://www.bitstamp.net/article/stop-orders-and-trailing-stop-orders/>

> What is Trailing Stop Order and how to use it?
>
> The trailing stop is more flexible than a fixed stop loss, since it
> automatically tracks the bitcoin’s price direction and does not have
> to be manually reset like the fixed stop loss.
>
> For example: Market price of bitcoin is $480 and you placed a Stop
> Sell Order at $450, which is in our case $30 below the current market
> price. Suppose price of bitcoins suddenly increases to $550. You are
> now in chance of “locking in” even bigger profit by manually
> repositioning your Stop Sell Order to higher price.
>
> Repositioning your Stop Order can be done automatically for you by
> enabling “Trailing Stop” function. In our case Trailing Stop Order
> will automatically reposition active Stop Order if price of bitcoin
> increases while maintaining spread of $30 between the bitcoins spot
> price and Stop Order.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Welcome to Bitcoin.SE! A good answer. @username_0 when an answer resolves your question, please remember to mark it as accepted so that the question does not remain "unanswered".  

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