NOUN
- an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level
How To Use stop-loss order In A Sentence
- However, there may be a lag between the stop-loss order being triggered and shares being traded. Times, Sunday Times
- One stock trading rule - regardless of your approach - is to use stop-loss orders as protection from downward price movements.
- Investors who can't monitor positions every second can place a stop-loss order.
- When the exchange rate neared ¥76 to a dollar, it triggered automatic trades, known as stop-loss orders, to buy yen and sell dollars, said Peter Gorra , managing director of foreign-exchange trading at BNP Paribas in New York. Yen Surges to Record Against the Dollar
- The entry order should then be placed 50 pips below at 137.29, while our stop-loss order will be placed 50 pips above at 137.79.
- If you bought a stock at $22 and are worried about it falling too low, you might place a stop-loss order to sell on it at $20.
- Lastly, Ms. Lien says, it calls for greater use of stop-loss orders, which are designed to automatically buy or sell at a certain price to prevent outsize losses. Foreign Exchange Gone Wild
- Some people think that stop-loss orders are the cure for their stock market headaches.
- Well he got two hundred and fifty thousand dollars together and he used it to cover all his stock market speculation losses, his picks all went down and he didn't have stop-loss orders, basically gambling stupidly. More Futurism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- It is running into stop-loss orders on both sides of its recent trading range and bouncing off of them, Mr. Busch added. Debt Worries Cap Gains For the Euro
