Stop order

stop order
order to a securities broker to buy or sell at the market price once the security has traded at a specified price called the stop price. A stop order may be a day order , a Good-Till-Canceled order , or any other form of time-limit order.

Stop Order
An order to buy or sell a security when its price reaches a particular point, thus ensuring a particular entry price, or limiting the investor's loss, or locking in his or her profit. Also referred to as a "stop-loss order".

Stop Order
Definition: Customer's instruction to buy or sell once a stock reaches a certain price.

Buy Stop Order
Buy Stop Order definition :
A buy order not to be executed until the market price rises to the stop price. Once the security has broken through that price, the order is then treated as a market order.

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Stop Order
An order to sell if and when the market price falls to a specified price. A stop order becomes a market order when the stop price is hit and the order will be executed at any market price at, above or below stop price.

Stop order (or stop)
An order to buy or sell at the market when a definite price is reached, either above (on a
buy) or below (on a sell) the price that prevailed when the order was given.
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Stop order
An order to buy or sell shares when the share price rises to/above or falls to/below a specified stop price. When buying, a stop order is used to make an investment, but only when an upward trend in the share price has been established.

Stop Order: An order to buy or sell a security if it reaches a specified price, known as the stop price.
Stop-Limit Order: An order to buy or sell a security at a certain price or better, only after it has reached the specified price.

Stop order. An order to buy at a price above or sell at a price below the current market. Stop buy orders are generally used to limit loss or protect unrealized profits on a short sale.

Stop Order
This is an order that becomes a market order when a particular price level is reached. A sell stop is placed below the market, a buy stop is placed above the market. Sometimes referred to as Stop Loss Order.
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Stop Order
An order to buy or sell becomes a market order once the market price reaches or passes the stated price. Stop prices are not guaranteed. A stop order to buy must be placed at a price higher than the current market price.

Stop Order
Stop orders are entered for investors interested in limiting losses.

STOP ORDER:  An order specifying a certain price at which a market order takes effect.
STRIKE PRICE:  Price per share at which an option may be exercised.

Stop order
You can issue a stop order, which instructs your broker to buy or sell a security once it trades at a certain price, called the stop price.

Stop Orders
Orders that are used to buy or sell after a stock has reached a certain price. See stop buy orders, stop loss orders.
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Stop Order - A market order to buy or sell a security which is to be entered by the broker only if the security trades at a specified or "stop" price, is known as a 'stop order'.

A stop order that designates a price limit. In contrast to the stop order, which becomes a market order once the stop is reached, the stop-limit order becomes a limit order once the stop is reached. ...

Buy Stop Order
Buy order for a listed security that stipulates that it be held until the security's market price rises to the stop price.

Stop Order
An order that becomes a market order when a round lot in an NYSE or AMEX listed security trades at or through a specified price (stop price) or when the national best bid in a NASDAQ listed security reaches the specified price.

Stop order: An order to buy or sell a stock when the stock's price reaches or exceeds a specified level.

Stop Order
Indicates a request to Buy or Sell at the market price*, but only when the security trades at or past a price that you specify (called the Stop price).

Stop Order
An order that becomes a market order once the security has traded through the designated stop price. Buy stops are entered above the current ask price.

Stop order
You can issue a stop order to your broker to buy or sell a security once it trades at a certain price, usually called the stop price.

Stop Order
An order placed which is not at the current market price. It becomes a market order once the security touches the specified price. Buy stop orders are placed above the present market price.

A sell-stop order, also known as a stop-loss order, is designed to stop a loss. If you hold a stock that is declining in price, you might place an order to sell the stock if it hits a certain price.

STP - See Stop order.
STP LMT - See Stop Limit order.
Straddle - Is an option strategy where the near- or at-the-money put and call are combined to form a position. The straddle can be long (purchased) or short (sold).

A financial analyst employed by a nonbrokerage firm, typically one of the larger money management firms that purchases securities on its own account.
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Process by which the exercise of stop orders in a declining or advancing market causes further downward or upward pressure on prices, thus triggering more stop orders and more price pressure, and so on.

Gather in the stops A market strategy in which investors sell stocks to drive prices to a level that breaks through stop orders known to exist.

An example is a combination buy limit/buy stop order, wherein the buy limit is below the current market and the buy stop is above.

Stop limit order A stop order that designates a price limit. In contrast to the stop order (which becomes a market order once the stop is reached), the stop limit order becomes a limit order once the stop is reached.

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When trading in many derivatives stop orders are always a recommended function to act as a way of loss management. This holds true for CFD trading too.

A trading strategy in which investors sell stocks in order to drive prices below a level at which stop orders are known to have been set by others. This triggers more selling, which in turn sets off more stop orders, accelerating the decline.

A day order will not be executed if the limit or stop order prices were not met during the day.

Very few brokers seem to provide a true percentage based trailing stop loss mechanism. Also with many brokers, stop orders are only be valid for 30 days or so, before the order expires unfulfilled.

A market strategy in which investors sell stocks to drive prices to a level that breaks through stop orders known to exist. Once the price is low enough, the stop orders become market orders and are executed, to create snowballing.

The difference between the level of a Stop order and the actual price at which it was executed. Can occur during periods of higher volatility when market prices move rapidly or gap.
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A recommendation to buy a specific security when a the security's price exceeds a certain level of resistance by placing a buy stop order at that level of resistance.

Specifically, it is an order, such as a stop order, a stop-limit order, or an all-or-none order, that is to be executed only if the condition or conditions that the order specifies are met.

Chronological record maintained by a specialist that includes the specialists own inventory of securities, market orders to sell short, and limit orders and stop orders that other stock exchange members have placed with the specialist.

The maximum number of pence per share that a share price can fall from its peak value, for sales, or rise above its lowest value, for purcahses, in order for a Trailing Stop Order to be dealt.
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Above The Market - An order to buy or sell at a price set higher than the current market price of the security. Examples of above the market orders include: a limit order to sell, a stop order to buy, or a stop-limit order to buy.

A stop order differs from a kill in that a stop is an order to buy or sell at a specified price. Examples of other fill or kill orders can include market or limit orders that require execution immediately.

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stop order A stock transaction order: Buy at a price above, or sell at a price below, the current market. This guarantees that a buyer's or seller's price criteria will be met.

Back to top Stop-Limit Order An order placed with a broker that combines the features of stop order with those of a limit order. A stop-limit order will be executed at a specified price (or better) after a given stop price has been reached.

See also: Market Order, Limit Order, Saving, Expense, Banks