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trailing stops
Coverage of trailing stops in the Nexus archive.
- +$26K in a single day on x75 (Jan 2025). Currently in drawdown YTD. Here's how I size on the way up and how I protect on the way down.
A trader with 6 years of leveraged crypto trading experience shares strategies for managing high leverage (x50–x75) through precise position sizing, volatility-adaptive scaling, and trailing stops. Despite a +$26K single-day profit in January 2025, they are currently in a 2026 year-to-date drawdown, emphasizing risk management over leverage as the key to success.