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It turns out some investors sold stock at a gain because of stop-loss orders.
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We set stop-loss orders on our open trades to keep our maximum loss on each trade to 8% or so.
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Because of the whopping and sudden decline in stock prices the afternoon of May 6, 2010, many stop-loss orders were triggered.
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The closing price for many stocks was higher than either the price at which the stop-loss orders were triggered or the price realized on the sales.
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Very interestingly, both Fisher and Buckingham advise against stop-loss orders.
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He compared the prospects to October 1987, when portfolio insurance, just "a bunch of stop-loss orders on a large-scale basis, " caused the market to plunge 23% in one day.
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The theory behind stop-loss orders is that they enable you to avoid a meltdown in the stock, and thus they protect you from a loss or preserve your profit.
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If you are a stock investor, consider strategies such as placing stop-loss orders to reduce losses in a volatile market, subscribing to services that email you company specific news as it happens, and setting up loss review trigger points to review your investment.
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Heavy stop-loss orders were triggered.
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If we talk about support levels real quick, I think with these indicators proving to be less reliable in turbulent markets, I personally have relied heavily on using trailing stop-loss orders, as I mentioned, as well as indicators like volume, price performance, and support levels.
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That was where a lot of traders had "stop-loss" orders to sell, and sell they did.
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For example, those who enter automatic "stop-loss" orders to sell stocks at a certain level below the current price can be knocked out of positions at a loss when a security suddenly tumbles often at prices well below where they expected.
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