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MV Chronicle: Understanding The Stop Loss

Deepak Shenoy2 min read
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Foundations
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Deepak Shenoy, Capitalmind's research team.
When was this article published?
Published 1 August 2011.
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2 min read
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Concepts, Stop Loss
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It’s been a rough week with my back getting clobbered for the first half, and then my desktop’s hard disk bad-sectoring its way into oblivion in the second. And the laptop has been temporarily borrowed back from my son who is not happy at being denied the prospect of watching Finding Nemo for the 75,456th time. (Why isn’t there a sequel?) more In any case, before my son’s desire to watch Marlin, Dory and Nemo resurfaces, let me bring to you this week’s edition of the Chronicle, albeit a day late. Today I'll speak about Stop Losses; next week, we'll look at patterns. Where we went last week Last week I’d mentioned stocks making new 52 week highs. These, I said, were good candidates. Here’s how they did this week:

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The Stop Loss

It’s been a rough week with my back getting clobbered for the first half, and then my desktop’s hard disk bad-sectoring its way into oblivion in the second. And the laptop has been temporarily borrowed back from my son who is not happy at being denied the prospect of watching Finding Nemo for the 75,456th time. (Why isn’t there a sequel?)

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In any case, before my son’s desire to watch Marlin, Dory and Nemo resurfaces, let me bring to you this week’s edition of the Chronicle, albeit a day late. Today I’ll speak about Stop Losses; next week, we’ll look at patterns.

Where we went last week

Last week I’d mentioned stocks making new 52 week highs. These, I said, were good candidates. Here’s how they did this week:

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