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  "id": 3304,
  "rank": 1833,
  "name": "Step-Based Trailing Stop",
  "aka": [
    "Step-Based Trailing Stop That Moves to Break-Even First"
  ],
  "family": "K",
  "subtype": "K1",
  "one_liner": "A trailing stop that moves only after a certain profit or loss threshold is met, then stays at break-even or the new level.",
  "market_regime": "any",
  "timeframes": [
    "null"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "null"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "null"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "SMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 20
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "SMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 50
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "close CROSSES OVER Average[20](close)"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "close CROSSES under Average[50](close)"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "close >= newStopLevel + (triggerDistance * pointsize) and MoveToBreakEven=1",
    "close <= newStopLevel - (triggerDistance * pointsize) and MoveToBreakEven=1"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "null"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "positionprice - NormalStop*pointsize",
  "take_profit": "newStopLevel + triggerDistance*pointsize",
  "position_size": "1 CONTRACT",
  "evidence_type": "source_code",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": null,
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/3304-step-based-trailing-stop",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/trailing-stop-with-steps/",
  "limitations": "These are machine-extracted research records, not verified trading systems. Catalog rank measures specification detail and claimed evidence, not profitability. The catalog extraction pipeline did not independently backtest these records. Its separate selected testing ledger does not validate the wider corpus. Rules, labels and parameters can be incomplete or wrong; consult the original source and its reuse terms."
}