Comments on: Using Trailing Stops: The True Art of Selling Stocks

By: Partial Profit Taking

Partial Profit Taking — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:58:55 +0000

[...] Helps Weather The Downside: If I still believe in the company and the investment, partial profit taking allows me to give the stock more room to fluctuate, as I’m no longer concerned with losing my original investment. It makes it possible to loosen up my trailing stops. [...]

By: Art Investing

Art Investing — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:16:26 +0000

[...] Using trailing stops can prevent large losses from becoming bigger ones, but they aren’t infallible. A fast moving stock could go right through a stop. [...]

By: Dennis Fergus

Dennis Fergus — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:03:24 +0000

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By: Salim Vasani

Salim Vasani — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:07:06 +0000

Thanks for the excellent article. I sell almost all my stocks using trailing stops (except OTC stocks as my broker won’t allow trailing stops on OTC stocks). I look at the historical prices to see the volatility and decide the trail percentage.

Many of the stocks that get triggered using the trail do continue going upward; but then that’s something I couldn’t have predicted. Most of my trails are 10% and 5% if the stock has seen a good rally. I will take advice from this article and try a trail of 25%.

By: Dividend-Paying Stocks

Dividend-Paying Stocks — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:17:21 +0000

[...] time to sell your holdings in a stock? Alex Green recently showed us in Investment U Issue #834, Using Trailing Stops: The True Art of Knowing When To Sell and lock in big gains. This simple strategy can prevent [...]

By: Trailing Stop

Trailing Stop — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:52:35 +0000

[...] REWARD has to be at least three times my potential RISK before I’ll buy. If you don’t use a trailing stop, that means you have 100% at risk. If you follow my rule, then you’d only trade if you were [...]

By: President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:40:13 +0000

[...] knows that bear markets are sometimes ferocious, so he uses trailing stops to protect his principal and his [...]

By: Forbes’ 10 Biggest Losers: 4 Wealth Protection Lessons From Bankrupt Billionaires | Jutia Group

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:20:12 +0000

[...] money after bad, cut your losses and move on. It’s hard to do, that’s why we recommend using trailing stops. They take all the emotion out of the decision and provide much needed discipline to exit an [...]

By: Forbes' 10 Biggest Losers: 4 Wealth Protection Lessons From Bankrupt Billionaires

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:44:55 +0000

By: Jutia Group - Market Jitters & Political Critters

Jutia Group - Market Jitters & Political Critters — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:34:06 +0000

[...] Most of your children and grandchildren would have been better off with a passbook savings account or the use of a trailing stop. [...]