http://www.investmentu.com/IUEL/2003/20030624.html Investment Advice and Investment Research with a Contrarian Point of View Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.investmentu.com/IUEL/2003/20030624.html/comment-page-1#comment-12906 Three Moneymaking Secrets of a Champion Trader Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:48:30 +0000 http://sandbox/wordpress/trailing-stop.html#comment-12906 [...] One of Dr. Steve Sjuggerud’s most essential investing tools - and one I use, along with many other savvy traders - is the “stop loss.” Here’s how it works: You limit your loss on any investment by deciding, in advance, on when you’ll sell it. Most stop losses will kick in when an investment closes the day 25% off its high. In other words, if you buy a stock at $10 and it soars to $20 before it begins a downward move, you’d sell at $15 - that’s 25% off the high of $20. The trick is to stay disciplined the stop-loss approach doesn’t work if you “cheat.” To read more about stop losses, check out IU E-Letter #250 - Getting Out With A Profit. [...] [...] One of Dr. Steve Sjuggerud’s most essential investing tools – and one I use, along with many other savvy traders – is the “stop loss.” Here’s how it works: You limit your loss on any investment by deciding, in advance, on when you’ll sell it. Most stop losses will kick in when an investment closes the day 25% off its high. In other words, if you buy a stock at $10 and it soars to $20 before it begins a downward move, you’d sell at $15 – that’s 25% off the high of $20. The trick is to stay disciplined the stop-loss approach doesn’t work if you “cheat.” To read more about stop losses, check out IU E-Letter #250 – Getting Out With A Profit. [...]

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