Adaptive Trade Management

You Drive With Seatbelts, Airbags, and GPS.
Why Do You Trade With Only an Emergency Brake?

OCO brackets only account for where price ends up.
Trade Unafraid adapts as the route unfolds.

Turn more of the market's routes into profitable outcomes.

Watch How It Works

Dynamic Stops

What If Your Trading Platform Could Adapt To Price Action?


The Candle Trail is one of our simplest tactics, but it introduces a whole new paradigm of order automation without code. You just configure it. Choose the timeframe for your candles, and every time one of those candles closes, your stop moves to the low (or high, if you're short) of that candle. You can even add a fudge factor to avoid getting one-ticked.

The Problem

The Market's Path Matters —
Your Trading Tools Pretend It Doesn't

Traditional OCO brackets are oblivious to the market's path — all that matters is which end of the bracket gets hit first. They lock every trade into a rigid framework, no matter what the market is actually doing.

Binary Outcomes

OCO brackets give you exactly two possible outcomes: full stop or full target. But markets don't move in a straight line. A trade can start working nicely, fall short of the target, and then reverse. OCO brackets don't adapt to the path. They only know which price gets touched first.

Missed Runners

OCO brackets put a cap on your profits. When your target is hit, your trade is over — even if you captured 3R from a 7R move.

Lack of Agility

Want to take a partial profit? With an OCO bracket covering your trade, you have to manually cancel or change your OCO bracket order. Every adjustment requires your intervention — while the market keeps moving. It's risky and error-prone.

Emotional Drain

Job 2 — managing the position — is where stress takes over. You watch every tick, second-guessing yourself, spending all your energy on a decision that's already been made.

The Solution

When All You Have is a Hammer,
Every Problem Looks Like a Nail

When all you have is an OCO bracket,
every trade looks like risk 1 to make 3.

Traditional OCO Brackets

The Sledgehammer Approach

Treat every trade the same

  • Rigid and unforgiving
  • Only two possible outcomes
  • Locks capital into a single idea
  • Oblivious to the market's actual path
  • No adaptability
Trade Unafraid

The Scalpel Approach

Adapt to what the market does

  • Dynamic and adaptive
  • Multiple exit tactics running concurrently
  • Many more ways to win — and win bigger
  • Responds to market conditions in real-time
  • "Soft Orders" that adapt intelligently
The Reality

The Job of Trading Is Really Two Jobs

One requires judgment. The other requires discipline.

Job 1: Finding the Setup

This is where you have a choice. You decide when to enter, when the conditions are right. But once you're in, you're in — and that choice is made.

Job 2: Managing the Position — aka The Grind

Once you enter the trade, Job 1 is done — but every pullback leads you to second-guess a decision that's already been made.

Meanwhile, the market does what it does — taking its own path, rarely the one you want.

Trade Unafraid's context-aware tactics adjust to the path the market actually takes, not just the one you wish it would.

Because Trade Unafraid handles much of Job #2 automatically, you can comfortably manage more positions and monitor more opportunities without spending your day babysitting every trade.

To Do:

1

Find the Setup

Your expertise, your analysis, your edge

2

Manage the Position

Trade Unafraid adjusts dynamically to the path the market takes

A Better Way to Trail Your Stop

Have You Ever Had a Trailing Stop Work Out Well?


Traditional trailing stops follow price by a fixed distance, which is invariably too tight or too loose. MFE Retracement waits until a trade has built a meaningful profit cushion (defined by you), then protects a percentage (also defined by you) of those gains while still giving the trade room to run.

A Symphony of OCO Brackets

Why Traders Love Ratchet Brackets


OCO Brackets are a great idea, but they're inherently all-or-nothing. And it's no fun to create multiple OCO brackets by hand. Ratchet Brackets, on the other hand, allow you to automatically create multiple, ever-increasing profit targets and stop-losses, giving you more control over your trades. You can even trail some percentage of your position, and they continue to ratchet higher as "ghost targets" are reached.

Adapting to the Market

As the Path Unfolds, the Trade Plan Adapts

Each tactic is useful on its own. Trade Unafraid becomes truly powerful when multiple tactics work together to protect the same position.



Multiple tactics can be combined into a named, reusable Trade Plan. Even though your broker would never allow you to have multiple stop orders, because they would cover more shares or contracts than you hold, Trade Unafraid allows these "conflicting" stops to coexist.

Need to take a partial profit? Add to the position? Move a stop? Trade Unafraid automatically keeps the Trade Plan synchronized, eliminating the painful OCO bracket adjustments required by traditional platforms.

You can also:

  • Create targets and stops on option positions based on the price of the underlying.
  • Pause or resume tactics without removing them.
  • Add, modify, or cancel tactics while the trade is active.
  • Add your own manual targets and stops alongside automated tactics.
  • Open or close additional shares or contracts within your active Trade Plan.
Features

Dynamic Position Management

Nobody can predict which path the market will take. But we can make more of them profitable.

Soft Orders — The Key to Agility

You can run MFE Retracement, Candle Trails, and Ratchet Brackets all at the same time. Because Soft Orders are managed by Trade Unafraid rather than your broker, multiple competing tactics can protect the same position simultaneously. Scale in, scale out, move stops, or take partial profits freely — your Trade Plan stays synchronized automatically.

Ratchet Brackets — OCOs Reimagined

Ratchet Brackets extend the familiar OCO concept with multiple targets, dynamic stops, and adaptive behavior. As each target is reached, the position scales out, and the stop moves up. You can even ratchet a trailing stop on the remainder to maximize a runner.

MFE Retracement

Let your winners run. It's like a trailing stop, only smarter. After your chosen profit threshold is reached, it protects a configurable percentage of your maximum unrealized profit rather than following price by a fixed distance.

Candle Trails

Choose a candle duration from minutes to months, and use the high or low of the prior candle as your stop (with a fudge factor, if you prefer). As a trend progresses, your gains are protected and able to grow. Way, way better than a trailing stop.

Option Orders From Underlying Prices

Most platforms force option traders to manage positions using option prices, even when their thesis is based on the underlying market. Trade Unafraid lets you create targets and stops using the underlying's price action instead, helping you avoid option-pricing noise and manage trades according to the market you're actually trading.

Place Manual Orders With One Click

You know how you have to get your OCO bracket out of the way in order to take a partial profit? Or adjust the quantity if you add to your position? Click one button, and Trade Unafraid will increase or reduce your position. The entire Trade Plan adjusts automatically.

Flatten at the Close Automatically

Don't want to hold a position overnight? Check a checkbox, and it will automatically flatten before the close. Change your mind? Uncheck the checkbox.

And So Much More

The features on this page are just the beginning. Trade Unafraid includes dozens of additional ways to protect profits, reduce risk, and adapt as the market reveals its path.

The Difference the Path Makes

Sledgehammer vs Scalpel

Same entry. Same path. Very different results.



Two identical entries play out very differently. The OCO bracket on the left knows nothing about path. It knows two prices and nothing more.

Trade Unafraid, on the right, is path-aware. As price action unfolds, the Trade Plan adapts accordingly. And according to your rules.

In this example, price did not reach the OCO bracket's target and became a full loss. Trade Unafraid's Ratchet Bracket scaled out twice, moved the stop up twice, and had a winning trade.

Fewer losers help your expectancy and your account to grow.

OCO brackets only see two prices. Trade Unafraid sees the journey between them.

Let Your Winners Run

Ride The Big Moves

Same entry. Same path. Very different results.



Two identical entries play out very differently again. The OCO bracket on the left achieves its maximum potential.

Trade Unafraid, on the right, scales out twice, but trails the rest. As each "ghost target" is reached, the stop is moved up, and the trade is able to run higher.

The OCO bracket captured everything it was capable of capturing. The trade was over. Trade Unafraid kept participating in the move.

Bigger winners help your expectancy and your account to grow.

Testimonials

Read What Our Fantastic Community Of Traders Has To Say…

"People behind the scenes and their work ethic and availability to answer questions and build out things that we the users ask for."

"I was able to duplicate edge across numerous products by having confidence in the ability to manage dozens of indications at once."

"...to be able to put in orders that have multiple profit targets and a stop loss all in one order entry.......it is so amazing!!"

"At least once a day the thought crosses my mind that I wished there was a system that could help automate my trade plan... and I almost died when I came across you on Twitter."

"I'm really impressed with Trade Unafraid's functionality and think it's the most robust platform out there for automated trading. I feel like I've just scratched the surface for what it could do with my own trading and I'd really like to use it to develop automated plans."

See What Happens When You Trade With a Scalpel Instead of a Sledgehammer

Turn more of the market's paths into profitable outcomes.

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