Trailing Stops in MQL5: Filter Positions and Respect Broker Constraints
Technical revision: 1 October 2026 · Educational materialOn this pageManage only the positions you ownDefine activation, distance and minimum improvementUse the downloadable managerCheck constraints before modifyingCompare exits, not selected success storiesA trailing stop changes the requested exit level after price moves in favor of a position. It changes the distribution of exits; it does not prove that a strategy has an edge. Compare it with a fixed-stop baseline using the same entries, costs and validation periods. Manage only the positions you own Iterating over all account positions while using the chart symbol's prices can modify an unrelated trade. The example…
