Stepwise Guide on how Take Profit Works on Cryptocurrency Exchanges
by Trailing Crypto cryptocurrency expertsYou’ve probably been hearing
so much about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies’ prices moving up and down
with each passing hour. In the volatile crypto sphere, you need an effective
strategy and a winning game plan to take advantage of this price action.
Crypto trading has become
the hottest trading market these days than stock trading, gold trading, and
even oil trading. Finding the best crypto exchange platform is also important to ensure that you can sell and buy
cryptos easily. There are tons of cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency trading
strategies that promise to make you rich. And, our team at TrailingCrypto
understands that everyone of us wants a bit of the pie. And, this is the reason
we have put together the best strategies to let our traders earn profit.
We all know that volatility
has become synonymous with crypto markets. The violent upwards or downwards
swings can move crypto pairs extremely quickly, leaving the beginners wondering
how the expert traders may turn these moments’ riddles with panic into
opportunities. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin breaking multiple resistances
within hours is not uncommon these days.
So, how can you know that
how strong the next move should be which may maximize your chances of catching
the top or bottom?
Setting limit orders is the
solution for traders who want to earn profits by a particular price. This feature
will help you makea profit in time and won’t let you lose your money. Just
select the price when you want to sell or buy your cryptocurrencies, and when
the price reaches at this point, your order will execute.
Of course, you may go with
Take Profit or Trailing Take Profit orders to ride the double-digit gains.
These tools will help you to secure your profit and control your losses. Let’s
understand this one by one:
Take
Profit
Take Profit is an order that
locks the profit when any asset price reaches at a certain level. If the price of an asset reaches at that
limit, it will automatically trigger the sale. If the price doesn’t reach that
limit, the order is not acted on.
It is a short-term strategy
that is useful for those traders who want to take advantage of a quick rise in
the cost of cryptos to make immediate profits. Take Profit orders are also
known as a Limit Order or Sell Limit orders.
How
does Take Profit work?
To use a Take Profit order,
the traders set a price at which they wish to sell their asset. The price is
one above the price at which the asset was bought to make sure that the trader
will make a profit on its sale.
Once the Take Profit limit
is reached, the order will be triggered and the sale goes through at the day’s
current market value. And, the sale will not be executed if that limit is not
reached and the trader has to hold onto that. This order will allow you to
limit your risk by exiting your trade as soon as the market reaches to a
favorable price for you.
If you are a trader with a
short-term strategy, you may find Take Profit orders
helpful. Let’s understand it with an example:
1.
Let us assume that you bought BTC at $100 and
set a Take Profit (TP) at 10%.
2.
This means that whenever the price reaches
$110, your TP order will be triggered and the trade will be closed.
The benefit of using a TP
order is that the trader doesn’t have to worry about executing the trade
manually. These orders can be executed at the best possible price regardless of
the underlying asset’s behavior. There are chances that the stock could start
to breakout higher, but the TP order will get executed at the very beginning,
resulting in high opportunity costs.
Most traders use take-profit
orders in conjunction with stop-loss orders (S/L) to manage their open
positions. If the security rises to the take-profit point, the T/P order is
executed and the position is closed for again. If the security falls to the
stop-loss point, the S/L order is executed and the position is closed for a
loss. The difference between the market price and these two points helps define
the trade’s risk-to-reward ratio.
Take-profit orders are often
placed at levels that are defined by other forms of technical analysis,
including chart pattern analysis and support and resistance levels, or using
money management techniques.
Another
Example for Take Profit order with Stop Sell order
Suppose the trader spots on
the ascending triangle chart pattern and opens the new long position. If the
asset has a breakout, and the trader expects that it will rise to 15% from the
current market value. And, if the asset doesn’t breakout, the trader wants to exit
the position quickly and move on. Here, the trader might create a T/P order
that is 15% higher than the market price to automatically sell when the asset
price reaches at that certain level.At the same time, the traders may place a
stop-loss order which is 5% below the current market price.
The combination of Take
Profit and Stop Loss order creates 5:15 risk to reward ratio. By placing a TP
order, the trader needs not to worry about diligently tracking the asset price
throughout the day. And, as there is a well-defined risk to reward ratio, the
trader knows well what to expect before even the trade occurs.
How
to place Take Profit Limit with TrailingCrypto
·
Create an account on TrailingCrypto and
login.
·
On the settings page enter your API Key and
Secret( Click here to know how to create API and Secret and Click here to know
how to configure it on TrailingCrypto)
·
Select exchange. (A drop-down menu on the top
left)Select Take Profit/Take Profit Limit order type.
·
Select Base and Quote coin.
E.g. Market: BTC/LTC
·
Select the number of coins that need to be
sold. (quantity could be in the fraction)
E.g. 10 coins
·
Now, click on the drop-down menu near Take
Profit. It will pop up with 3 options: Market, Limit, and Trailing. Selection
of an option means when market price (bid price) rises to the Stop value, the
selected order in the drop-down menu will be executed (Market Sell, Limit Sell,
or Trailing Sell).
E.g.: if the current bid
price of LTC is 0.011184 BTC.
Stop value can be placed at
0.011210, 1% above the current price.
Suppose the market hit 0.011210.
This will trigger subsequent orders. Below are the possibilities:
Market Sell: A Market Sell
order will be placed.
Limit Sell: A Limit Sell
order will be placed having the limit value mentioned during placing the order.
Trailing Stop Sell: A
trailing Stop sell order will be placed with the mentioned offset during
placing the order.
*Note: Always make sure the
Stop Value is higher than the current Bid Price.
A
hypothetical example:
Case 1 Take Profit with
Market Sell:
·
Suppose the current bid price of NEO is $100.
Now someone placed a Take Profit with Market Sell order, for 1 NEO coin with a
stop value of $110. Now when the NEO market bid price hits $110, a Market Sell
order will be placed at $115.
Case 2 Take Profit with
Limit Sell:
·
Suppose the current bid price of NEO is $100.
Now someone placed a Take Profit with Limit Sell order, for 1 NEO coin with a
stop value of $110 and a Limit value of $115. Now when the NEO market bid price
hit $110, a Limit Sell order will be placed with a limit value $115.
Case 3 Take Profit with
Trailing Stop Sell:
·
Suppose the current bid price of NEO is $100.
Now someone placed a Take Profit with Trailing order, for 1 NEO coin with a
stop value $110 and a Trailing offset 3%. Now when the NEO bid price hits $110,
a Trailing Stop Sell order will be placed. Let’s say, market hits $120 and then
start correcting. In this case, when the market bid reaches $116.4, a Market
Sell order will be placed.
Trailing
Take Profit
Trailing Take Profit
strategy is set by choosing the regular Take Profit and the “trailing
distance”. Once the TP order reaches at
the trailing distance, it will work as the new selling point. Any time, the
profit reaches at a new high, the Trailing Take Profit moves up so you are able
to stay in the crypto trading until there is a constant price increase.
The possibilities with
trailing take profit feature on are:
·
Once the price reaches at your limit, it will
wait until it grows even higher, and after that it drops according to the
trailing percentage, and the bot will close the deal.
·
Once the price reaches at your prediction and
then falls down, the bot will close the deal according to the trailing
percentage.
Trailing Take Profit moves
in one direction only and it locks in profit and limit losses. The trailing
profit only moves up in case of long strategy, once the price has surpassed the
previous higher price and a new high has been formed. If the trailing profit
moves up, it can’t move down, and thus, it is securing the profit.
Trailing Take Profit allows
the trade to remain open and continues to make a profit as long as the price is
moving in the favor of the trader.
Let’s understand it with an
example:
Say, you are buying a BTC
worth $100 and setting the Trailing Take Profit at 10% with a trailing distance
of 3%. Once the 10% increase is reached, the trailing distance 3% will work
just like the conventional Stop Loss or Take Profit depending on the
conditioning if you are shorting or longing. It will work as:
Market Price |
10% Take Profit, 3%
trailing distance moving with Market Price |
$100 |
$110 |
$110 |
$106.7 |
$120 |
$116.4 |
And, on the other side, if
the price starts moving down but it doesn’t reach at the trailing distance of
3%, then the Take Profit remains the same:
Market Price |
10% Take Profit, 3%
trailing distance moving with Market Price |
$100 |
$110 |
$110 |
$106.7 |
$108 |
$106.7 (TTP does not
move) |
$120 |
$116.4 |
$117 |
$116.4 (TTP does not
move) |
$116 |
$116.4 (position
closed) |
By considering the Trailing
Take Profit, the position was closed at $116.4, instead of $110.
Use
Trailing distance conservatively
It may seem attractive to
use a wide trailing distance to gain maximum profits, but this might diminish
the losses. If you set trailing distance at 10% with trailing profit of 3%,
then once those are reached at 10%, take profit will be moved down to 3%. This
way, your effective profit is at 7%.
And, if you set Trailing
Take profit at 20% with a trailing distance of 20%, and the trade goes well,
then you are risking all profits as your Take Profit will move down by 20%. Set
your trailing distance at a maximum of 20% of Take Profit, so that you can hold
your gain while maximizing the profits.
You should not use trailing
for all the trades. Let’s check out where not to use Trailing:
·
The pair has volume below 1 BTC
·
The pair has too high spread i.e. the price
between the buy and sell prices in the order book
·
The pair has very low liquidity
·
You want to catch the big buy, where one
purchase may raise the price up to +10% and higher, but within a few seconds,
the price moves back to normal level
·
You want to sell the asset at an exact level,
not below the target
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