A trailing stop loss that actually trails, while you are away from the screen.

What a trailing stop loss is

A trailing stop loss is a stop that moves in one direction only — up behind a long position, down behind a short one. You set a distance: so many rupees, so many percent, or a step size that only moves after price advances by a given amount. As price runs in your favour the stop follows at that distance. When price turns and reaches the stop, the exit order goes in.

Its purpose is not to make you money on the way up. It is to stop you giving back what you already made because you were not watching at the moment the move ended.

Why doing it by hand does not work

• It requires you to be watching. The move that needs your stop trailed is exactly the move that happens while you are driving, in a meeting, or asleep before a gap open.
• It requires you to be disciplined at the worst moment. Moving a stop by hand, in a fast move, is when hope talks you into leaving it where it is.
• A plain stop-loss order does not trail. Placed once, it sits at its original level all day while the trade doubles and comes back.
• Modifying an order repeatedly through a broker terminal is slow, and every modification is a chance to fat-finger the price or the quantity.

How it works on Ai4Trades

1. 01Connect the broker you already useBring Your Broker: you keep your existing account and your existing brokerage plan. Funds and securities never leave your own broking and demat account, and we take nothing from your broker for the introduction.
2. 02Set the trail where you can see the priceDraw the level on the chart or set it from the watchlist, order book, positions or holdings. The trail distance and method are part of the trade path you define, alongside entry, target and stop.
3. 03Let it runThe rule watches tick-by-tick NSE and BSE data and moves the stop as your condition is met. Nothing needs you at the screen and nothing needs a browser tab left open.
4. 04The exit goes to your brokerWhen price reaches the trailed stop, the order is transmitted to your broker for execution. You get a notification on the desk and on the phone.

It works on every surface, not just the chart

A trigger set on the chart, in the watchlist, from a screener result, on the order book, on a position or on a holding is the same trigger. That matters more than it sounds: the reason people stop using automation is that it lives in one corner of the product and the rest of the workflow does not reach it.

The same rules run in the Android and iOS apps, on the same account and the same broker connection, so a stop you set at the desk is the stop that is running when you are out.

What it cannot do

A trailing stop places an order when your condition is met. It does not guarantee the price you get. If the market gaps past your level, if the stock is in a circuit or a halt, if liquidity is thin, or if your broker rejects the order for margin or risk reasons, the exit happens at the price available or not at all.

Read the risk disclosure before you rely on any automated exit. Automation removes the delay between your decision and the order. It does not remove market risk.

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