I do understand how a profit preservation function can lead to a bot getting stuck outside of where the market is and how you generally have to choose between making the bot allow the occasional loss and staying with the market level or guaranteeing never to make a loss and occasionally finding itself "out of play" with trading aka  "being stuck" in which case the adjustment translates to a loss if you choose to do so.  I, personally, haven't given up that there may be a way to combine the two functions with more complex rules but that would be serious project to automate.  It might just be me being naive. :-)