Quantcast
Channel: Comments on: What is a Trailing Stop Loss Order?
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 15 View Live

By: neil

Can you recommend any good online brokers that will allow you to use a trailing stop loss?

View Article



By: Mark Wolfinger

Jim: Good description of an important concept.

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

By: Jim

That’s a good point, I haven’t been able to find one.

View Article

By: eric

I think I should buy some BRG….

View Article

By: Jimmyj

I don’t understand something. IRT the buy stop order. Why would you set it to be higher than the current market price. Wouldnt you want to set an order to buy lower than the current price? Am I reading...

View Article


By: Bill

Etrade lets you place trailing stops based on fixed dollar amount or by percentage drop.

View Article

By: Rick Morley

Actually, I’m pretty sure most respectable brokerages do. My own brokerage, Zecco, lists both “Stop Limit” and “Trailing Stop” as options in the Order Type dropdown. I’ll admit I never actually used...

View Article

By: Rick Morley

People do this to profit off sudden upward movements. For example, let’s say that stock XYZ has been trading in a range of $8 – $10. The $10 mark is a resistance level. And the stock won’t really rise...

View Article


By: Rick Morley

I forgot. There is another common use for buy-stop orders. They protect against losses when you short a stock. So if you short XYZ at $10, and (as in the blog post) want to limit your losses to 10%,...

View Article


By: Alan

Scottrade.com also allows you to do trailing stop orders. So if I understand this right…Lets say i have 1k shares of stock XYZ @ $1 each. I set a trailing stop for 10%. The stock rises to $2, then the...

View Article

By: Mark

Thinkorswim (now owned by TDAmeritrade)

View Article

By: Financial Samurai

Good stuff Jim. Whatever you do, never use market, unless you absolutely don’t care what price you’re going to get hit or lifted at.

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

By: Scott

Can you do this with lobster meals that are listed as “market price” on the menu?

View Article


By: 444

I love trailing stop orders. Etrade offers them using percentages or dollar/cents amounts. I have to continually remind myself not to fall in love with my stocks. I have to remember that my holdings...

View Article

By: carole

Ameritrade has an Order Types Tutorial under their Education tab which offers good explanations and examples of the various types of orders.

View Article

Browsing latest articles
Browse All 15 View Live




Latest Images