When the trail starts — why day one throws out winners
Short · Exits & selling · October 7, 2026
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On our own signals, about one winner in four dipped 14% before it paid 10%. A 5% or even 7% trail from day one throws out every one of those. The weekly plan starts its trail only after the target, and that kept about 95 of every 100 winners.
Part of the full lesson: Stop loss or trailing stop? Which one, and where it goes
The lesson in writing
What we've done at Olympia, and what the models have done, is study how much that stop needs to be set — and how many of those are going to make that stop or get stopped out.
How it's worked out
On our own signals, about one winner in four dipped 14% before it paid the 10%.
Now think about it. You set a 5% trail, or even a 7% trail, from day one, and it's going to throw out every one of those.
Our weekly plan starts its trail only after the target, and that kept about 95 out of every 100 winners. Well, that's weekly — it changes for every plan. There's weekly, there's monthly, there's hourly, there's daily.
But if you room it early and you size the trail correctly, it's going to pay.
What a trailing stop is, and how its price moves, is in Stop loss or trailing stop? Which one, and where it goes.
The dip figure and the kept count are Olympia's own measured record for weekly signals that went on to pay, misses included. Measured and backward-looking, not a forecast.
