Trade protections in cTrader Web¶

cTrader offers several risk management tools, such as stop loss, trailing stop loss, break-even and take profit, all accessible when creating an order, modifying a pending order or modifying an open position.

Relative and absolute protection options are available for stop loss and take profit:

• Relative protection — stop loss and take profit are set as values in pips.
• Absolute protection — stop loss and take profit are set as values in price, balance, profit or distance.

Stop loss¶

Stop loss is a feature that automatically limits your losses by closing an open position if the market moves unfavourably. When the price of a symbol falls to a specified level, cTrader triggers the stop loss and closes the position at a loss.

In the new order window, enable the Stop loss option and do the following:

• Specify a value in pips, price, percentage of your balance or profit amount.

• Choose a stop-loss trigger. Clicking the Arrow button cycles through the four trigger types.

  Note

  A stop-loss trigger determines the specific market price conditions that activate a stop loss, allowing you to control the sensitivity of protection levels to price movements. A tick is the smallest possible price movement (one price update).

  Trigger type	Buy order stop loss triggered by	Sell order stop loss triggered by	Trigger behaviour
  Trade side	Bid	Ask	Default behaviour – stop loss based on the execution price of the trade side.
  Opposite side	Ask	Bid	Uses the opposite price stream from the trade direction.
  Double trade side	2 × Bid ticks	2 × Ask ticks	Triggers stop loss only after 2 consecutive price ticks cross the stop loss level.
  Double opposite side	2 × Ask ticks	2 × Bid ticks	Stricter confirmation – the opposite price stream must cross the stop loss twice.

Trailing stop loss¶

Trailing stop loss automatically adjusts the stop loss as the price moves in your favour. It maintains a fixed distance from the current price and never moves backwards, protecting profits while leaving the trade open to develop.

In the new order window, enable Trailing stop loss below Stop loss.

Break-even¶

Break-even sets a stop loss at the entry price after a favourable movement. If the market reverses, cTrader closes the position at or close to the original entry price, resulting in zero net loss, excluding spreads, commissions and slippage costs.

After enabling the Break-even protection in the new order window, the following parameters become available:

• Trigger — specify the amount of favourable price movement that will set a stop loss at the entry price.
• Offset — specify the additional price distance beyond the entry price for setting the stop loss.

Take profit¶

Take profit is a feature that automatically closes an open position when the market reaches a specified profit level. If the price of a symbol rises to the target, cTrader triggers the take profit and closes the position at a profit.

In the new order window, enable the Take profit option, then specify a value in pips, price, percentage of your balance or profit amount.

Optionally, click Add TP to set multiple take profits and scale out of your position as the price moves in your favour. This feature locks in partial gains by closing portions of your trade at different profit levels instead of exiting the entire position at a single target.

When setting multiple take profits, use the Quantity field at each level to specify the portion of the trade for closure. You can set up to five take profit levels, and the last level always uses a fixed quantity to fully close the position.