Stop loss — short lessons
Where a stop goes, which kind, and what each one has cost.
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Stop loss
Exits & selling
The stop is the exit you decide before you're in: a price, not a feeling. The distance from your entry down to it is your 1R. Decide it calm, while you're thinking straight — decide it mid-fight and pain always argues for one more chance.
Exits & selling
You went to sleep up 20% and woke up with 5%. A trailing stop rides at a set percentage under the highest price since you bought, and it never moves down: a 5% trail, in at $100, starts at $95 and is $114 by the time the price is $120.
Exits & selling
On our own signals, about one winner in four dipped 14% before it paid 10%. A 5% or even 7% trail from day one throws out every one of those. The weekly plan starts its trail only after the target, and that kept about 95 of every 100 winners.
Exits & selling
Too tight and you're jabbed out of a fight you were winning. Olympia doesn't guess the distance: for each kind of signal it took the ones that went on to pay and measured how far each one dipped first. For a monthly signal in at $100 — tight $91, balanced $86, wide $83.
Exits & selling
Support is a price the stock has bounced off before, where buyers stepped in at least twice. A stop just under it means the price has to break that floor to throw you out; the wiggles above it don't. On the record it kept about 80 of every 100 weekly winners — but only about 55 monthly ones.
Exits & selling
The usual picks cost more than they look. On our top-tier daily signals a flat 10% stop would have thrown out about 40 of every 100 that went on to pay, and no stop at all leaves nothing between you and the one that never comes back. A stop isn't free — you're picking it with the price tag showing.
Exits & selling
Every stock wiggles, and a stop parked inside that normal noise is a sitting duck — the stock does nothing unusual, dips into it, takes you out, then goes right where you thought. Tight stops don't protect you from being wrong. They punish you for being right too early.
Exits & selling
You picked your opponent right. You still lost. That's the cruel part of a tight stop — it doesn't catch you being wrong, it catches you being early.
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