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by amanaplanacanal 1314 days ago
Stop losses can fail when prices are falling quickly enough.
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Set multiple stop losses? $6, $5.99, $5.75, etc, etc. if one fails one of the others will catch it. Hell as long as it sells before $5.01 I'm profitable. Simple as.
That’s not how stop losses work. If things are falling fast enough, You could have one trade at $7, and the next trade at $4. Sorry, you still lost money.
That's how people who haven't previously been investors through a crisis think stop losses work.