What is a 'breakeven protective exit'?

If you've spent any time looking at our dashboard, you've noticed three letters next to roughly a quarter of our closed trades: BE. That's a "breakeven protective exit" — a real outcome our system uses, but one most signal services either don't apply or don't disclose.

What a BE actually represents

A breakeven exit happens when a trade moved meaningfully in our favor — at least 5 pips of unrealized profit — and then reversed before reaching the first take-profit level. Instead of letting the original stop loss eat the full risk, we close the trade and bank a portion of the move.

Mechanically: the system records 75% of the highest pip level the trade reached. So a trade that peaked at +8 pips and then reversed will close as a "BE +6.0p" win, not as a -8p loss.

Why we count BE separately from take-profits

It would be tempting to lump BE wins into the headline win rate and quietly inflate the number. We don't, for two reasons:

• BE wins aren't full wins. A take-profit hit at TP3 banks 25-50 pips. A BE banks 5-15 pips. They're not equivalent and shouldn't be treated as one number.
• Subscribers should know what's happening. If a quarter of our "wins" are actually protective exits, that's important context. Hiding it is dishonest.

On the dashboard, you'll see three numbers under the success rate: TP% (full take-profits), BE% (protective exits), and SL% (real losses). The breakdown stays consistent over time as more data accumulates.

What this means for you

If you copy the signals exactly as posted — entry, stop loss, take-profit levels — your broker won't automatically execute the BE rule. Your trade will hit either TP, SL, or stay open until you manually close it.

To replicate the BE behavior in your own account, you can manually move your stop loss to the entry price once a trade reaches +5 pips of profit. Once price retraces, your broker's stop closes you near breakeven.

The BE rule is one of several reasons our reporting looks more conservative than competitors who hide losses. It's the trade-off we chose.