Austin Shelton, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, has applied quantitative rigor to the question of how stop-loss and stop-gain rules, even simplistically formulated rules, can assist ...

Stop losses are a way of life for a trader. They are often ‘do or die’ in situations of intraday and leverage trading. However, we think that the ‘gold standard’ is the average trailing stop. Maybe we ...

Ask investors how they manage risk, and many will give the same answer: tight stop-losses. Widely viewed as a cornerstone of disciplined risk management, tight stop-losses can sometimes work against ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I recently wrote an article declaring that the biggest mistake a private investor can make is not selling. Since then I have been ...

It is one thing to identify a stop-loss level for a position. It is quite another to take those stop-losses. Identifying an appropriate stop-loss requires accurate reading of price charts. Taking the ...

Financial planners and financial advisors may be conflicted as to how to manage their clients’ money in these volatile markets. The reality is that a strategy needs to be in place long before markets ...