What It Is:
A trailing stop is a special type of trade order where the stop-loss price is not set at a single, absolute dollar amount, but instead is set at a certain percentage or a certain dollar amount below the market price.
When the price goes up, it drags the trailing stop along with it, but...
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Archive for July, 2010
Trailing Stop
The T-Bill Mystery Solved?
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago about some odd happenings in the T-Bill market.
Between June 1 and 14, yields on the four-week Treasury fell off a cliff. Diving from 0.15% to as low as 0.02%. An 87% decrease in a very short period of time.
Other short-term securities also saw yields plunge. The 13-week...
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How to Make Volatility Your Friend
We’re living in an age of commodities volatility.
The last ten years have seen a number of big price swings for many natural resources. Uranium ran from $10 to $140, and then back to $40. Oil hit $145 then plummeted back to $35. Copper went from $4 to $1.25 and then back to $3.50 (and...
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Fireworks in the Markets 7/2/10
Very suitable fireworks in the markets as we celebrate our Independence. Be safe we will be back Tuesday…enjoy your long weekend. We feel oil could have another 3-4% downside at the most before we get a bounce higher. As we voiced in recent posts we expect the $70 level to act as solid support...
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IB Interest Rate Brief
Suggestion of surrender
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IB FX Brief
Jobs data soothes risk strains sending dollar lower
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Trailing Stop: Stock and Gold
A trailing stop order is a a kind of order that helps you limit the potential for loss due to drastic stock price fluctuations. This also helps investors get away from random emotion-based strategies. Research has shown that more disciplined trading is much less fraught with severe losses. One reason why using trailing stop...
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Jobs # and then what… 7/1/10
What excuse will be given for a disappointing number tomorrow? Heading into a long weekend tomorrow’s jobs number will likely have a greater impact than normal. Crude oil has fulfilled our short term targets having dropped 8% in the last four sessions. We are not advocating longs yet but would suggest those short to trail stops...
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IB Interest Rate Brief
Manufacturing slowdown hits home
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IB FX Brief
Rising loan costs in Euroland creates euro surging
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