Scale-Out Steps
Ghost·May 17, 2026Nobody sells at the top.
Not the people posting screenshots. Not the traders who look like they timed it perfectly. The ones who actually captured most of the move did it by selling in pieces on the way up, not by predicting the exact peak.
Binary decisions destroy most traders. Hold everything or sell everything. Hold and you might give back the whole move. Sell and you might miss the next leg. The stress of choosing one or the other, at exactly the right moment, under pressure, is where the money leaks out.
Scale-out steps replace the binary with a plan. You don't sell everything at once. You sell pieces at specific levels, defined before you enter, and Ghost Oracle tells you when each level is hit.
Here is the mechanic.
Each step has two numbers. First: what percentage of your position to consider selling at that level. Second: the price level to do it, measured in something called R.
Understanding R
R is your risk unit. It equals whatever you set your trailing stop at.
If your trailing stop is 10%, then 1R equals 10%. If your stop is 25%, then 1R equals 25%. R is just your stop percentage given a name.
Why does this matter? Because it connects your profit targets to the actual risk you accepted. A 2R gain means you made twice the amount you were risking. A 3R gain means three times. It gives you a framework that scales to any trade instead of having to recalculate percentages from scratch every time.
How a scale-out works in practice
Your trailing stop is set at 10%. So 1R equals a 10% move.
Step one: 25% at 1.5R. When the token is up 15% from your entry (1.5 times your 10% stop), Ghost Oracle sends you an alert. The alert says: consider selling 25% of your position here.
Step two: 25% at 2.5R. When the token is up 25% from your entry, you get another alert. Consider selling another 25%.
After both alerts fire, you've taken 50% of your original position off the table. The other 50% is still riding. If the token keeps going, your Profit Lock trail protects those remaining gains from the peak.
How to configure it
Conservative: 50% at 1R. As soon as you've made back exactly your risk (if your stop is 10%, sell half when you're up 10%), half your original bet is off the table. The remaining half costs you nothing even if it goes to zero.
Balanced: 25% at 1.5R, then 25% at 2.5R. This is the default setup in Ghost Oracle. You take small pieces off at two different levels, stay exposed to the full move, and let the trail protect the rest.
Aggressive: 15% at 2R, then 15% at 4R. You're barely touching the position at the early levels. You're trying to ride as much of the move as possible. Higher potential gain, higher exposure to giving it back.
You can add as many legs as you want. Three, four, five levels each with different percentages. The more legs you define, the more graduated your exit becomes. The scale-out tells you when. The decision to act on it is still yours.