# Take-Profit Take-Profit is an order for locking profit. It's placed automatically when position opens above entry price for Buy and below for Sell. **Important:** Take-Profit size must cover exchange commissions, otherwise trade will be unprofitable. All Take-Profit settings apply to all positions from one source: specific algorithm, preset, or manual trading settings. *** ### Setting Take-Profit Level #### For Manual Trading and Shots, Averages, Signal Algorithms **Percentage** — distance from position opening price to Take-Profit order. * Specify whole or fractional value in percent * Positive values counted in profitable direction * Negative values lead to immediate position close at market price **Example:** when opening position at 100 USDT with 1.5% Take-Profit, order places at 101.5 USDT for Buy and 98.5 USDT for Sell. *** #### For Depth Shots Algorithm In Depth Shots, three Take-Profit calculation variants available: #### **Classic** Works same as in other algorithms — fixed percent from position opening price. #### **Historic** Percent calculated from distance that price traveled in last 2 seconds before position opening (including breakthrough). **How to use:** 1. Distance traveled by price is taken as 100% 2. Specify "pullback" percent for Take-Profit placement **Example:** price traveled 3% in 2 seconds. You expect pullback by third of this distance (1% from price). Specify 33% in "Percentage" field. On 6% breakthrough, Take-Profit places at 2% from entry price. #### **Depth** Works like "Historic", but 100% is only breakthrough size without previous 2 seconds. *** #### For Vector Algorithm **Important difference:** Take-Profit specified in percent from spread size, not from asset price. **What is spread in Vector:** Spread is the difference between maximum and minimum price in frame. **Level calculation:** * **For Buy:** counted from lower spread boundary in current frame * **For Sell:** counted from upper spread boundary in current frame **Why calculation from spread, not price:** Vector algorithm with Min Spread Size = 0.5% can trigger both at 1% spread and 5% spread. With such difference in situations, it's more logical to place Take-Profit depending on found divergence. **Example for Buy:** Lower spread boundary = 100 Spread = 10 (difference between maximum and minimum in frame) Take-Profit = 50% Distance in points = 10 × 50% = 5 Take-Profit price = 100 + 5 = **105** *** #### Adaptive Take Profit Automatically adjusts Take-Profit distance considering spread boundary movement trend. **Enabling:** Enable "Use Adaptive TakeProfit" checkbox in Vector algorithm settings. **How it works:** 1. Analyzes how corresponding spread boundary changed between all frames in Time Frame 2. Calculates average change in absolute price units 3. Adds this value to base Take-Profit price **Average change formula:** ``` ((a2-a1) + (a3-a2) + (a4-a3) + ...) / n ``` where a — boundary value in each frame, n — number of transitions between frames. * **For Buy:** lower spread boundary used * **For Sell:** upper spread boundary used **Example for Buy:** 4 frames with lower boundaries: 100, 110, 120, 130 Last frame: lower boundary = 130, spread = 100 Take-Profit = 90% **Change calculation:** * (110 - 100) = +10 * (120 - 110) = +10 * (130 - 120) = +10 Average change = (+10 + +10 + +10) / 3 = **+10** **Without adaptation:** Take-Profit price = 130 + (100 × 90%) = 130 + 90 = **220** **With adaptation:** Take-Profit price = 220 + 10 = **230** **Result:** Take-Profit placed higher, as lower boundary steadily rises (+10 in each transition). **When adaptation doesn't affect:** If changes are multidirectional (example: +10, -5, +3, -8), average change is close to zero, and adaptation practically doesn't affect Take-Profit price. *** ### General Settings Apply to manual trading and all algorithms. #### Enable/Disable Take-Profit enabled by default. Uncheck to open positions without Take-Profit. #### Order Type **Limit** (default) * Real limit order placed on exchange * Marked with green "r" symbol in settings header * Works with virtual Stop Loss **Market** * Availability depends on exchange * Order is virtual (marked with purple "v" symbol) * Information stored only in MoonTrader core * Sent to exchange only when Take-Profit price reached * Works with real stop-limit Stop Loss #### Iceberg Available for spot trading. Allows hiding true order size from exchange order book, placing orders and executing them in parts. Applies only to Take-Profit regardless of main order iceberg settings. *** ### Auto Price Down Sequential Take-Profit price correction toward lower profit level. #### Parameters **Timer** — delay time before each lowering step (in seconds). Whole and fractional values allowed. Countdown starts from order placement moment. **Step** — Take-Profit decrease size in percent from position opening price. **Important:** step always specified in percent from opening price, even in Depth Shots and Vector where initial level is calculated dynamically. **Limit** — minimum value in percent from opening price to which auto-lowering is allowed. Can be negative — in this case execution will lead to position close at loss. **Important:** in Depth Shots and Vector, if calculated Take-Profit is less than limit, then after timer expires it will place at limit level and won't change further. Take-Profit increase not provided. #### Examples #### For Shots Algorithm **Task:** extract 1.5% profit, and if doesn't work — lock minimum 0.2% after several seconds. **Settings:** * Take-Profit: 1.5% * Timer: 1 second * Step: 0.5% * Limit: 0.2% **How it works:** 1. On position open, Take-Profit at 1.5% 2. After 1 second — at 1% 3. After 1 more second — at 0.5% 4. After 1 more second — at 0.2% (minimum limit) 5. Stays at this level until trade closes #### For Depth Shots Algorithm **Task:** extract 50% profit from breakthrough, and if doesn't work — lock minimum 0.2% from opening price after several seconds. **Settings:** * Take-Profit "Depth": 50% * Timer: 1 second * Step: 0.5% * Limit: 0.2% **How it works:** Breakthrough size — 3%. Take-Profit places at 50% of breakthrough (1.5% from opening price). 1. After 1 second — at 1% from price 2. After 1 more second — at 0.5% 3. After 1 more second — at 0.2% (minimum limit) 4. Stays at this level until trade closes ### Support If you have questions about Take-Profit setup or want to suggest improvements, contact [support](https://t.me/moontrader_support_en). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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