My usual strategy involves watching the trade head straight to its stoploss.
Seriously though, don't treat exiting a trade as an all or nothing deal. Phase the trade out in chunks. If you get 30 or so pips, close part and bring your stoploss up. If you get another 20 or 30 pips, close more and move stoploss to break even or a few pips in profit. At this point, you can either set fixed targets to scale out of the remainder of the trade or just slap on a trailing stop and ignore it.