Trailing stop wick calculator: the stop that fired and the price that came back
A quick spike down can set off a trailing stop, and then the price comes back. Enter the numbers and see the gap between your fill and the later price.
How it works: a trailing stop follows the high price up. The trigger sits one trail amount below the high. If any trade prints at or under the trigger, the stop wakes up and sends a sell order. A wick is a quick spike down that comes right back. It can touch the trigger for a moment. The fill is the price your sale really got. Enter your own fill from your order history. The tool shows the trigger, whether the wick hit it, and what you gave up against the later price.
A wick only needs one print
You do not need the price to stay down. One trade at the trigger is enough. After that the sale is on its way, and the price coming back changes nothing. The difference between the fill and the later price is the part the stop did not get. See trailing stop for the order itself.
Trigger is not fill
The trigger is where the order wakes up. The fill is where it sells. On a fast move they can be apart. A stop that sends a limit order instead may not fill at all, which is the topic of trailing stop vs trailing stop limit. For the plain trade-off, read trailing stop vs stop-loss.
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