Investors have long relied on trading instructions, also known as orders. A basic trade instruction establishes what you want to happen in your portfolio. The most basic order is a market order, which ...

A stop loss order is a trading tool that automatically sells a security if its price falls to a set level, helping investors limit losses without constantly monitoring the market. While it can protect ...

I had a stop-loss order on 600 shares of Sino-Forest at $16.27 and the stop-loss order (which also had a limit of $16.27) was not triggered on Thursday, June 2, when the stock went from about $18 to ...

The stop-loss order has come to be regarded as an ineffective investing tool at best and a trap for the naive at worst, but the controversial tool still has its uses. Granted, it is more complicated ...