A stop price is the price in stop order that triggers creation of market order.
Stop Price: Enter your stop loss order here
Duration: Here you have the option of specifying whether you would like the order to last for just the current day or until cancelled (Good Til' Cancelled).
Stop Price: The specific price at which a stop order, limit order, or stop-limit order to a securities broker is to be executed.
Stop Price
A stop price is the opposite of a limit price. It's a way to make sure you sell before a stock's price drops too low. If you had shares of XYZ, normally around $90 a share, and it was 'plunging' in price, you might set a stop price at $80.
The stop price can be any price you indicate.
A stop order can be an order to buy above or sell below the current market price.
Stop buy orders are used to limit your loss or to protect the unrealized profit on a short sale.
stop order A market order to close a position if a specified stop price is reached. stop payment An instruction for a bank not to honor the payment of a check before it has been cashed.
Stop and Stop Limit Orders A stop is an order that becomes a market order once the security has traded through the stop price chosen. You are guaranteed to get an execution.
Two prices must be stipulated when the order is placed -- the stop price and the limit price. When the stop is elected, the order will be filled if it is possible to do so without exceeding the limit price.
It is a good idea to establish a stop price that caps maximum tolerated loss on a futures position the moment that you decide to initiate it, and call in your stop order to the futures order desk every day as necessary.
A sell stop order has a stop price that is below the current market price.
Buy Stop Order - investors can use the buy stop order to purchase stocks as insurance against a loss or protect a gain from a short sale.
The disadvantage is that the stop price could be activated by a short-term fluctuation in a securities price. The key is picking a stop-loss percentage that allows a security to fluctuate day-to-day while preventing as much downside risk as possible.
Stop (Stop order, stop market, stop loss, stop exit, stop price): An order to buy or sell a stock once the price of the stock reaches a specified price, called a "stop price". When the stop price is reached, the stop order becomes a market order.
Stop orders are not always executed at the stop price. If the stock drops drops very suddenly by a large amount, the stop order may be triggered and the stock sold.
As the market rises (for long positions), the stop price rises according to the proportion set by the user, but if the market price falls, the stop price remains unchanged.
On a stop order, when price reaches your stop price, the stop order becomes a market order and is treated accordingly. A sell stop becomes a market order when price trades down to or through your stop price.
A stop-limit order will be executed at a specified price (or better) after a given stop price has been reached. Once the stop price is reached by the market, the stop-limit order becomes a limit order to buy (or sell) at the limit price or better.
Once the stop price is touched, the order is treated like a market order and will be filled at the best possible price. EXAMPLE: Let's assume December Corn last traded/settled at 640. A buy stop order might read "Buy 3 December Corn at 649 stop.
For Listed and Over the Counter (OTC) securities, a standard stop is triggered when the bid is equal to or less than the stop price specified or the offer is equal to or better than the stop price specified.
This type of order will become a market order when the market price of the stock touches or goes below the sell stop price. On the contrary, a buy stop order is entered at a price above the current offering price.
For the initial stop, we are simply asking for the stop price because it is set based on technical analysis. That way you can put the exact initial stop price:
InitStop:=Input("Initial Stop Price",0.1,10000,10); ...
Buy Stop - An order to purchase a stock above the current market price, that is triggered if the stock prices reaches or passes the buy stop price.
When the stock trades below your STOP price, your SELL STOP order immediately becomes a SELL AT MARKET order. It will most likely be executed quickly after the market trades below your STOP price.
Holding The Market Illegally trying to stop prices from falling
January Effect - The superstition that January sets a pace for the rest of the year.
Naked Short Selling - Illegally shorting shares that do not exist.
A stop order to buy becomes a market order when the futures contract trades (or is bid) at or above the stop price. A stop order to sell becomes a market order when the futures contract trades (or is offered) at or below the stop price.
Bidders buy bonds at the price they bid provided it is above the stop price.
Entrepot:
A term used for international trade where goods are shipped to a centre for reexport. Hong Kong engages in significant amounts of this form of trade.
A customer's order to a broker to buy a security if it sells at or above a stipulated stop price. This type of stop order can be used to protect an existing profit or to limit the potential loss on a security that has been sold short.
Once a set of stop prices is reached, new sell orders are activated and transacted, causing the stock price to fall once again. This effect is continuously repeated, triggering more stop orders and therefore a rapid decrease in the stock's price.
In an active, volatile market, the market price may be declining (or rising) so rapidly that there is no opportunity to liquidate your position at the stop price you have designated.
stop-limit order - a variation on the stop order; a stop-limit order will be executed only at the limit price, not higher or lower than the limit price. In contrast, a stop order will be executed at the stop price, or, ...
2-Day Close: Abbreviation: 2dc. A stop-loss tactic which instructs liquidation of a position only on 2 consecutive closes below the stated stop price for long positions & above the stated stop price for short positions. An HSL invention.
Buy stop order
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. Also known as a suspended market order.
A stop order that becomes a limit order after the specified stop price has been reached. (see Limit Order, Stop Order)
Stop Order ...
Definition
Support
A price level for a stock or market that behaves as a "floor," helping to stop prices from going below that level. Also called a support level.
RELATED TERMS ...
Look for areas of support (either minor price support or base price support) on the 15 minute chart, and re-adjust your protective stop price upward as the stock continues to rally.
A command that combines both the stop order and the limit order (the latter is in effect once stock reaches a stop price).
Surprise
Describes the discrepancy between actual earnings and an earning's forecast.
Wilder's Parabolic SAR can be used as a trading system where you are always in the market - hence stop and reverse (SAR). The position is reversed when the stop is hit. The dots that mark the stop price levels curve like a parabola, ...
A trailing stop, used on a stock that is performing profitably, provides a way to sometimes capture a greater profit by allowing the pre-established stop price to be adjusted to a price or percentage below the changing price of the stock as it moves ...
And make certain that the order does not include a limit. Stocks can and do gap down. Expecting that you will have a sell order filled at your stop price is a quick way to the poor house.
Trading system ...
For instance, many systems assume that stop-loss orders will be executed at their stop price. Under actual market conditions a stop-loss order might be executed at a better or worse price, or not be executed at all.
Note: If the price reverses at or near the support trend line, adding to your position is always an option as long as you are within 3-5% of your trend line stop price.
Longer Time Frame Chart of Gold - Weekly ...
Question 1: Do you buy, short, or avoid trading this stock?
Question 2: If trading this one, what is the target price?
Question 3: If trading this one, what is the stop price?
The answers appear below and a chart on the next page.
Sell Stop Order
An order to sell a security at the market price once the security trades through a specified price, called the stop price.
See: Orders; Stop Order ...
For example, if you're looking for a 3-point swing, you have to stay out of the market until your risk (current price to stop price) is a point or less. This goes back to the importance of picking good entry points.
Stop limit order - A stop order that becomes a limit order after the specified stop price has been reached. (See: Limit Order, Stop Order) ...
STOP ORDER
An order to buy at a price above or sell at a price below the current market price. A Stop Order becomes a market order when the stop price is triggered.
On-Stop (O/S) Order
A special-term order placed with the intention of trading at a later date when the price of the stock reaches the specified stop price. An on-stop order becomes a limit order once a trade at the trigger price has occurred.
Stop Limit Order: a combination of a stop order and a limit order. The limit order becomes effective when the stock hits the stop price.
using 50 cents as the trail amount in this particular example, we are able to stay in the trade longer, and add a considerable amount of profit to the trade. The stock went all the way down to $7.40 by noon, which would bring our trailing stop price ...
Stopped out
A purchase or sale that is executed under a stop order at the stop price specified by the customer.
For example, if you gave a stop-limit order to sell a particular stock if the price fell to $30 -- the stop price -- but not to sell if the transaction price were less than $27 -- the limit price -- execution would be contingent on the stock price ...
When you buy a stock to cover your existing short position, use Limit Order to buy it at the ask price, or at ask price minus 1/16 to increase the chance of getting the trade done.
For all stop loss orders, use Stop Market Orders with stop prices ...
When establishing new GorillaPick positions, a buy stop is placed above "trigger prices" or after "Confirmation Day" breakouts. Note: Since stop orders become market orders, during fast market periods executed prices may be filled beyond stop prices.
 See also: Market, Stop, Order, Trading, Sell
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