One of my favorite tools is trailing stop loss orders to protect from loss.
Essentially, the stop loss is here to keep your assumptions from losing you money.
If you are an Apple stalwart I wish you luck, but please put in a mental stop loss.
The bottom line: be ready to reduce exposure on renewed weakness in the market and keep stop loss points solid.
Then it will present an incredible opportunity to go long on yields (or short the bonds) with a nearby stop loss.
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Of the handful of true, honest-to-god free lunches, diversification and the stop loss are the ones I emphasize most in my practice.
That would have to include, by federal law, a catastrophic provision in the form of a stop loss for a family's total health outlays.
The second way I draw a line in the sand is to have a stop loss determined before I even put on a trade.
This special benefit was established to recognize and compensate military members whose service was involuntarily extended under Stop Loss between Sept. 11, 2001, and Sept. 30, 2009.
On the short side, if Apple goes through its previous longs in effect breaking the stop loss you would have put in if you had gone long aggressively early on chances are high another big drop is underway.
To read more, see The Stop-Loss Order: Make Sure Your Use It, A Logical Method Of Stop Placement and Trailing-Stop Techniques.
That was where a lot of traders had "stop-loss" orders to sell, and sell they did.
It turns out some investors sold stock at a gain because of stop-loss orders.
People with stop-loss programs, where they're told you can't get out of the military.
Put in a stop-loss order and the one certainty is that you'll lock in a trading commission.
By buying a longer contract you can reduce transaction costs, but be careful and use a stop-loss order.
Why Crull even felt compelled to pay for the losses sustained on an authorized stop-loss is not explained.
In April 2000 (before setting up that blanket stop-loss order), he lost 20% in one month, when volatility shot up overnight.
On that same trade date as the stop-loss sale, the market was volatile.
Warren Buffett once put his finger on what's stupid about buying a stock and then putting in a stop-loss order.
We set stop-loss orders on our open trades to keep our maximum loss on each trade to 8% or so.
Because of the whopping and sudden decline in stock prices the afternoon of May 6, 2010, many stop-loss orders were triggered.
There are no perfect answers, but one of the better ideas I've seen is simply to set up a stop-loss order.
Apparently, no sooner had MSHY dropped and triggered the stop-loss then the shares reversed direction that same day and moved higher.
Finally, investors can use a stop-loss strategy to mitigate greater losses should their assessment of the opportunity prove to be wrong.
Some states, including New York, bar stop-loss insurers from covering small groups.
The returning soldiers in "Stop-Loss" couldn't keep it together for 24 hours.
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