Why should you use a stop loss order?

Rambo35

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A stop loss order is an order that closes out your trading position with the intent of cutting your losses when the market is moving against you. There is no rule of placing the stop loss order, it all depends of your trading strategy. Using stop loss order should be a part of any trading strategy, so your account is protected from the unpredictable market’s movement.
 

angle13

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Jun 17, 2013
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it is very important friend. because if you do not set stop loss. you will burn your account with one wrong order
 

fxapex

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Jun 7, 2013
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its a very important tool, it helps your account from getting swiped when you fix a wrong trade.
 

Afzal_TP

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Mar 7, 2014
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Stop loss is very effective tool in trading so trader must use this to save their account from huge losses because Forex is very risky business and trader should follow proper trading plans and strategies.
 

bablogfx

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Stop loss is crucial feature in trading, you should use it, otherwise you'll get your deposit spilled out.
 

Hilda13

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Apr 15, 2014
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Besides stop loss (it must become best friend of yours), I think that you'll have to make new friendship, which will helps you not to become greedy.....set also take profit :)
 

Pionex

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It is not matter if you always keeps in front of meta trader. But if the change of currency will go down 100 pips in one second, you may make a big loss. Or if you could not stay always in front of meta trader then you should use stop loss. Otherwise you may loss all of your capital. It is better to start with a demo account and you will understand why it is so important.
 

Fxpipper

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Trading without SL is like driving your old Volkswagen sans any brakes, at hundred miles per hour,, with blinkers on..
 

Exness Support

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Apr 21, 2014
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One should always use a stoploss. Trading without stoploss means giving exposure to your account of unlimited risk. Always trade with a stoploss and when it gets triggered accept the loss and look for a new trade after a while.
 

goodness

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May 20, 2014
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Stop lose helps protect your trade against loss especially in your absence. It closes your trade when you are running at loss. One can trade without setting the stop loss as long as he is there to monitor the platform.
 

kaito kid

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Jun 29, 2013
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stop loss gives us the opportunity to trade correctly. losses will be limited to the use of stop loss. making trades that we do will be safe
 

koyl

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May 25, 2015
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Stop loss order is very important . It helps in cutting your losses when the market is trading against you. It a is a way of managing your trading account.
 

pinbar

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Jul 18, 2015
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I use stop loss to avoid unnecessary losses that often results due to unexpected news and market behaving like crazy.
 

ambitionfx

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Jul 1, 2015
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When I first started trading forex, I also see without SL trades can reach TP easier since nothing can stop it as long as you have enough fund to avoid margin call. However, when market go reverse, it never showed a sign of recovery and all my trades even lost 70% fund since I thought they could turnaround. (swap fees charged and I closed them).

From that day, I never missed setting SL for my trades. I think new trader should make it as a habit.
 

ProFXManager

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Jun 7, 2015
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Personal!, i do not use SL, because its the hard way to realize a loss, for myself a do async hedging an order which goes wrong.
Also there is a academic study from the Bond university attached, which compares different szenarios...using SL is not the best option, it is "old school".
There are more pdf's available, but require signed NDA.
 

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ProFXManager

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That's not an "academic study" and it was not published by Bond University. It was self-published by its author.

its an additional information about sl for public use!

and wrong again, it was an abstract from the original doc "Do initial stop-losses stop losses", which was published 2008 by the same author!
 

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