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  • A "stop-limit" order, combining a stop-loss with a limit below which you won't sell, is a safer approach.

    How Small Investors Can Get Stomped Jason Zweig 2011

  • Besides the relatively common stop-loss orders, in which securities are sold automatically at a set price, investors can use limit orders and stop-limit orders to buy securities at a pre-determined price.

    Rapid Investing Is Recipe for Regret 2010

  • A stop-limit order, however, is likewise triggered by a decline in the stock price but the order specifies a price below which the trade is canceled.

    What Caused The Flash Crash? 2010

  • The best thing an individual investor can do is to use stop-limit orders instead of stop loss orders.

    What Caused The Flash Crash? 2010

  • A stop-limit order, however, is likewise triggered by a decline in the stock price but the order specifies a price below which the trade is canceled.

    What Caused The Flash Crash? 2010

  • A stop-limit order, however, is likewise triggered by a decline in the stock price but the order specifies a price below which the trade is canceled.

    What Caused The Flash Crash? 2010

  • The best thing an individual investor can do is to use stop-limit orders instead of stop loss orders.

    What Caused The Flash Crash? 2010

  • The best thing an individual investor can do is to use stop-limit orders instead of stop loss orders.

    What Caused The Flash Crash? 2010

  • I avoid stop-limit orders and stick with the stop-market orders.

    Forbes.com: News Quint Tatro 2011

  • The stop-market orders' cousin, the stop-limit order requires the trader to input not only the level where the stop is removed, but the limit price from which the trader wants to execute the order.

    Forbes.com: News Quint Tatro 2011

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