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The importance of a Stop loss<br />

All good methodologies use stops. A protective stop<br />

loss is an order to exit a long or short position when<br />

prices move against you to specified price.<br />

The stop loss insures against a usually large loss and<br />

has to be used in one way or another.<br />

An initial stop loss can be placed with your order on<br />

the trading platform; the trade will be closed,<br />

automatically when if the stop loss is hit.<br />

This type of stop loss will allow you to execute your<br />

trade and go spend time with your family or friends,<br />

this will help you to trade out of your emotion,<br />

because you know how much money you will lose if<br />

the market didn’t go in your direction.<br />

Lot of traders use mental stops, when they enter a<br />

trade, they don’t place a stop loss, because they think<br />

that the broker will hit their stop loss which is not<br />

true.<br />

The reason behind using mental stop is the human<br />

psychology, humans hate to lose money. And if you<br />

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