Which Brokers Support Trailing Stops?

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I have a style where (for long positions) I put a stop limit triggered if the stock goes 5% below my purchase price with a limit 6% below the purchase price. If the stock goes above 6% of my purchase price I set a stop limit triggered if the stock goes to 75% of the highest profit I could have taken since holding the stock with a limit of 70% of that profit. I do similarly for shorts.

I find this quite tedious to do by hand. Which brokers have systems which would allow me to set this up or do some reasonable substitute, automatically, when I enter a position? Thanks.
 
Commisso,

Did you ever get my e-mails? I sent you 2 requesting that spreadsheet you have on scaling out positions. So far, I haven't received anything...
 
Thanks Commisso. Are they the only ones? I notice that there are quite a few negative comments about that broker. However I am not a scalper but keep buying (or shorting) relatively small quantities of different stocks from my watch lists and holding them until I am stopped out. My screens are good enough that most of these choices win. I hope Cybertrader is good for that.
 
Pretty Ironic that after I reccomend cyber to you they cost me over a g this morning. Got into a trade and due to technical problems with the software I was unable to liquidate my position had to call and place the order and by the time this fat bastard got to the trade desk it was about a 1/2 away from where I orignaly wanted to sell!!!!
Love starting my new quarter off this way...

Id stay away from these guys....

PEACE COMMISSO
 
Sorry Commisso about your bad experience with Cybertrader. You seem to be describing a difficulty with doing something interactively. Have you had an opportunity to judge if trailing stops or other orders that are left on their servers are handled well?
 
Sure they get handled well, for they are stored on their servers and then as soon as the trigger gets taken out it becomes a market order.....

For some reason this morning the software would not take my market orders. The software kept relaying the error (market orders cant be placed before 9:30AM). So I took about a half point slippage on a 2k position dut to having to call them......
 
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