Once a setup has passed every gate, two decisions are left: how to get in, and how to get out.
Getting in
There are three ways in:
- Market. Take the price on offer now.
- Limit. Place an order at a price and wait for the market to come to it.
- Resting stop at the level. Place a stop order at the pattern's break level ahead of time. Your broker fills it when price trades through.
The resting stop has the most settings: how far past the level it sits, how long it waits, how far price may move against the pattern before it is pulled, what happens when a newer pattern forms, and what to do if your broker refuses a stop that would fire on arrival. You fill in every one.
Getting out
There are nine exit blocks: a fixed target, a trailing stop, a move of the stop to breakeven, a two-stage target, a partial profit, a structural break exit, a reaction at structure, a wick-and-time exit reader (the smart exit), and a time cap that closes a trade that has gone nowhere.
You can combine them.
The rest of a partial close
After the partial close, the smart exit's candle check can close the rest early: a long wick against the trade, then a candle engulfing it. The partial close block asks you to choose on or off. On four-hour and daily candles it tends to close the rest within minutes. Strategies saved before 30 September 2026 with it unset keep their old rule: on below four-hour candles, off above.
Moving the target onto a line
When the trade is decided, the target block can move your target onto the closest line that still leaves the room you asked for. The lines are the prices the market has kept coming back to that day, worked out on your own computer from your broker's prices. Lines closer than your minimum room are skipped. If nothing in range qualifies, the trade is not taken, rather than given a target you did not choose.
Leave the setting alone and your target stays exactly where the rest of the block put it.
Wildflower does not supply a level map to your strategies. The builder does not offer a target that reads a level map, or an entry gate or market-state routing split that reads one: each would do nothing on your account. A strategy holding one is not saved, backtested or run until changed: Wildflower names the block and the setting.
Targeting liquidity
A fixed target can sit on a liquidity line instead of a fixed multiple. You choose which line: the next closest one where price bounced several times, the price where trading clustered most, or the furthest such price in reach. You also set the nearest and furthest target, the target when no line qualifies, and how many candles back to look. None has a default; saved strategies keep their numbers.
While the trade is open
The Continuous trade protection block holds rules that run on an open position, not at entry. One of them is a ladder: as the trade reaches each profit level you set, the stop locks in a smaller one, and it never moves back.
A step of the ladder never moves your stop to the other side of the current price. Your broker would refuse that stop, or fill it at once, so the step waits until there is room. The backtest follows the same rule.
What can go wrong
What happens to an order already waiting when a news window opens is a separate account setting, with three answers. It has its own article.
Some exits are only read by certain detectors. If you put one beside a detector that never reads it, the exit would change nothing. So Wildflower will not run the strategy. It names the exit and the detector, and asks you to remove the exit or use a detector that reads it.
What's next
The account-level blocks: sizing, safety, calendar, news and hedging.