{"id":49,"date":"2021-03-02T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/?p=49"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:28:03","slug":"trailing-stop-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/trailing-stop-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailing Stop Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Trailing stop loss can be useful if you have a stock that has run up and you want to make sure you keep some of the gains.\u00a0 You can set a 10% trailing stop loss and then as the stock goes up, the sell order will adjust to 90% of the stock prices as it increases.\u00a0 The sell price only moves in one direction, up.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then, if it drops 10%, the sell executes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Be warned if the stock opens below the sell price on a given day, you may sell for less than your limit order.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The avuncular folks over at Investopedia have some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/t\/trailingstop.asp\">more details on trailing stops<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Every investor&#39;s situation is different but, what ball percentage of your stock holds would you have a Trailing Stop Loss on?\u00a0 10%, 20%\u00a0 more?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trailing stop loss can be useful if you have a stock that has run up and you want to make sure you keep some of the gains.\u00a0 You can set a 10% trailing stop loss and then as the stock goes up, the sell order will adjust to 90% of the stock prices as it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fin.kim\/trailing-stop-loss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trailing Stop Loss<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fin.kim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}