LearnBrokersWebull › SMA-200 Trend + 15% Trailing Stop

SMA-200 Trend + 15% Trailing Stop on Webull

Enter when price is above the 200-day average; exit only when a 15% trailing stop is hit. Deployed to your own Webull account — no code, your assets never leave the broker.

The short version: connect Webull once, deploy the trend + trailing stop template with its own cash allocation, and DeployQuant runs the rules every session — entries, resting exits, and the journal that explains each decision. Median backtested CAGR across 59 ETFs: 3.2% (2021-01-04 → 2026-07-17).

Setup on Webull

  1. Connect your Webull account from the Brokerage page — the connection carries trade and read permissions only, never withdrawals.
  2. Build a strategy in the Lab (blocks or AI), or fork one from the community, and backtest it on years of minute data.
  3. Deploy it to Webull with a cash allocation — the strategy runs in its own isolated sleeve, so other holdings and other strategies are untouched.
  4. Type the live-trading confirmation. Until you do, nothing real is sent.
  5. Profit targets rest at Webull as real GTC limit orders; pause the strategy or the whole connection anytime.

The strategy

  1. WHEN the market opens · IF not invested AND yesterday's close > SMA(200) · THEN buy with 98% of the sleeve
  2. WHILE invested · a managed trailing stop follows 15% below the position's high-water mark

Good for: long trends with tolerable pullbacks; the 15% trail is wide enough to survive normal corrections.
Watch out: a 15% giveback from every peak is the tuition this strategy always pays; on choppy assets it re-enters above the 200-day repeatedly after each stop-out.

Strongest backtests for this strategy

ETFCAGRmax DDtrades
TQQQ 22.1% −37.5%28
SOXL 19.5% −69.7%88
CLSE 19.3% −14.5%1
SOXX 19.1% −36.4%13
QLD 15.5% −40.2%17
IAU 15.2% −24.7%4
ROM 13.7% −41.3%21
XLK 10.7% −32.4%6

Top-8 by CAGR shown of 59 tested — hindsight selection; see the full table including the losers.

Run trend + trailing stop on Webull yourself — free →

Build it from blocks (or type it in English), backtest it on 5.5 years of minute data in seconds, tweak any parameter, then paper trade it on live data. No card, no broker needed to start.

Frequently asked questions

How do I automate trend + trailing stop on Webull?

Connect Webull to DeployQuant (trade & read permissions only), pick the SMA-200 Trend + 15% Trailing Stop template or describe it in English, backtest it on your chosen ETF, allocate cash, and confirm live trading. The strategy then runs every session in its own sleeve inside your Webull account.

Why 15% rather than 10%?

Wider trails survive routine corrections in exchange for a bigger giveback at the end. Both numbers are one-field edits in DeployQuant — backtest both and compare.

Backtests are hypothetical, computed by DeployQuant's engine on minute-resolution consolidated US market data (2021-01-04 to 2026-07-17, $10,000 starting capital, no margin, fees and slippage not modeled) and do not guarantee future results. Nothing on this page is investment advice. Live trading involves risk of loss.