cTrader Profit Defender (Trading Bot)

The cTrader Profit Defender is a powerful cBot designed to protect your profits on cTrader. You can run this tool locally on your computer or on the cTrader Cloud. It features three types of trailing stops, each offering flexible ways to manage positions, and supports alerts via cTrader pop-ups, email, or Telegram (with optional chart screenshots).

Key Features

• Three Trailing Stop Strategies: Pip Levels, Big Bars, and Take Profit Percentage.
• Run for a Single Symbol or All Symbols: Manage just one symbol or the entire account's positions with a single cBot instance.
• Flexible Alerts: Receive notifications via pop-ups, sound, email, and Telegram (text or image).
• Local & Cloud Usage: Works both locally and on cTrader Cloud (note: alerts work only when running locally).

Version 1.2:

• New Trailing Stop System: "Take Profit Percentage" allows you to configure the trailing stop based on percentages of the distance from the entry to the take profit.
• cTrader Cloud: This cBot can now run on the cTrader Cloud, continuing to protect your trades even when your computer is turned off.
• Single or Multi-Symbol Management: The cBot can now manage a single symbol or all positions on the account with a single instance running.
• Telegram Messages with Images: Telegram alerts now use Imgur to generate screenshots with better image quality, eliminating the need for elevated permissions (a requirement for cTrader Cloud). Note that alerts won't work on cTrader cloud. That is a limitation of cTrader.
• User Guide Included: A new button on the chart gives you quick access to the cBot's user guide with a single click.

Pip Levels:

As you can see in the image above, this strategy offers 4 basic levels and 1 additional level that keeps adding to the triggers and protections levels. Let's say the last trigger value was 50 pips. If the "Add to Trigger" is set to 10, then the next trigger will be 60, and the next after that will be 70 and so on. The same is true for the Protection level. If the last Protection was 40, then the next protection will be 50 and so on.

One thing to consider when using this strategy is to never set the protections to fractional values smaller than the symbols allows, because that won't work. One example is XAUUSD that only accepts integer values.

Big Bars Trailing Stop:

With this strategy, the cBot will calculate the average size of the last bars and then compare that with the last closed bar. For example, if you've set the parameters as shown in the image above, and the most recent bar is 1.5 times larger than the average, the cBot will consider it as a "big bar."

If you have an open buy position, and you've chosen to include the full range of each candle (including the wicks), the cBot will watch for big bull bars. If the trade is in profit and the cBot detects a big bull bar, it will move the stop loss to just below the low of that bar, plus the number of pips you've specified in the "Add Pips to Stop" parameter. The "Add Pips to Stop" option helps when you want to give a little bit of space for the stop loss.

Take Profit Percentage Trailing Stop:

The Take Profit Percentage feature gradually moves the stop loss as the price approaches the take profit (TP) level, locking in profits along the way. You can set up to four trigger levels, each paired with a protection level. When the price reaches a trigger, the stop loss is adjusted to the corresponding protection percentage, ensuring some profit is secured if the market reverses.

For example:

• At 25% of TP, the stop loss moves to 10% of TP.
• At 50% of TP, the stop loss moves to 25% of TP.
• This continues until the last trigger level is hit.

After the final trigger, you can choose to use cTrader’s trailing stop to follow the price closely, with the option to remove the TP to capture even larger profits if the trend continues. This system helps manage trades safely by locking in profits step-by-step.

Alerts:

Here you can see the alert options, as you can see, you can receive sound, pop-up, telegram and email alerts. You can also choose which type of alerts you want.

Here you can learn how to configure the telegram bot, email and Imgur ID:

• Telegram Alerts
• Email Alerts
• Imgur Client ID

That is everything for now. Just remember that this cBot does not open any type of trade, it only manages the stop loss of trades you or other bots open.