LoL, no worries about questions, seems to be what these forums are for..
I use all sorts of reasons for stops but when I put on a position based on the criteria used for this particular trade i.e. the downtrending resistance I then put the stop a little above the last high in the channel. Currently this is a long way away and with my position size it will mean giving back a lot of money so I may lose my discipline/bottle for a proportion of it before that, in order to ensure I end with at least a +ve PnL should I get stopped. I will try not to but I find usually if I can take a partial position off to ensure that if the balance gets stopped I still retain a profit I cannot stop myself. this may be what is stopping me from reaching greater heights in the trading world...but it just works for me.
I will trail the stop if I get a second down week to the high of the previous week but that will not be static, depends how the daily chart looks. I change them as and when it seems appropriate but in this case I will not go below daily resolution . The only defined stops I use are on systems which require that sort of thing. It really depends on your timescale. If trading intraday then stops are far more dynamic than daily or weekly. There is a thread discussing these things going on right now.
I have never considered myself an expert on these things and often get out too early. On the other hand you only tend to remember the "shoulda, woulda, coulda" ones that create pain and not the ones you got right. Money management is the hardest part and I don't know that you ever perfect this, I have been trading since 1991 and still know so very little about it.