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What is a stop loss?

By John Russell, About.com

Question: What is a stop loss?
Answer:

A stop loss is an order that closes out your existing trade in order to limit losses.

Stop losses are literally used to stop the loss of your trading capital. When your stop loss order is hit on a trade, the trade is closed at the current market value.

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