How many pips for a trailing stop?

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@blueskies18

I’m trying 20 pips but I get stopped out

it’s not about the “number of pips”!

Is it good to use a trailing stop?

i know you weren’t asking me, so please excuse me for interfering! for what it’s worth, if anything, i offer my own answer to that question i have four reasons (listed below very much in order of importance!) why it isn’t ok for me to use a trailing stop every single time i’ve ever tested it, over the decades (and i’ve really done a lot of backtesting and forward-testing of trailing stops, because superficially they seem so attractive!), i’ve found that everything i’ve ever done has perfor…