You were right about the trade. Price went your way — then it reversed, and gave it all back. Sound familiar?
Here's the same entry, the same price path, run through two different exit strategies side by side.
A fixed OCO bracket: one stop, one target, no adjustments. When the trade reverses hard, there's nothing between you and giving back the whole move — a full -1R loss.
A Ratchet Bracket manages that same trade differently. It sells a third of the position as price hits the first target and moves the stop to breakeven. It sells another third at the next target and ratchets the stop up to lock in what's already been earned. When the reversal comes, the final third gets stopped out with real profit already protected — a net +1.3R instead of a full loss.
Same setup. Same reversal. One strategy adapted as the trade progressed; the other didn't move at all.
This is a hypothetical price path used to illustrate the mechanics of Ratchet Brackets, not a performance guarantee — but the underlying idea holds regardless of the exact numbers: a plan that can only respond to a trade going straight to target has nothing useful to say about every other way a trade can unfold.
Keep your setup. Keep your entry. Upgrade what happens next.
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