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"Many long positions that we have seen clients take have had fairly close stop-losses, which convinces us that investors are not willing to take on too much risk with important economic data coming in thick and fast," said Joshua Raymond at City Index.
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In other words, it's looking at the maximum amount of money the fund could lose on each contract based on where its stop-losses are set, rather than the number of dollars invested initially.
Hands-Off Investor 2008
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Traders said markets earlier ran stop-losses in euro/dollar below $1.549, accelerating the euro's decline.
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E*Trade said it has seen the use of stop-losses grow 10% in the past year, while TD Ameritrade says it has also seen double-digit percentage growth.
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Jeremy Siegel, finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and a best-selling author, thinks long-term investors should avoid stop-losses altogether.
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The latest euro burst was related to stop-losses set at the $1.4750 level, according to Brian Dolan, chief currency strategist at Forex. com.
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Meanwhile, the administration has played politics with the lives of American service men and women, who find themselves on a treadmill of call-ups and stop-losses, while the "war on terror" turns into an Orwellian nightmare.
The Backdoor Draft 2007
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And if one looks at it, it is always possible to look at it and say, "My goodness, you have to have 1,500 stop-losses," -- maybe.
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The stop-losses you've mentioned occur from time to time.
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We have been able to have relatively few stop-losses.
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