Warren Buffett once put his finger on what's stupid about buying a stock and then putting in a stop-loss order.

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Thus someone needs to be buying lots of bonds in order to keep prices up and yields down, to stop this death spiral happening.

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By buying a longer contract you can reduce transaction costs, but be careful and use a stop-loss order.

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