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A Stop Is a Statement, Not a Wish

A stop marks the price at which your reason for the trade is gone — which is a chart decision, not a tolerance for pain.

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What the lesson covers

0:00A stop is not how much you can bear to lose. It is where you were wrong.
0:05The two ways to place one. One asks the chart where the idea fails. The other picks a comfortable number.
0:14The types. Market stops guarantee an exit. Limit stops guarantee a price. Not both.
0:23The gap problem. A stop cannot execute while the market is closed. A gap opens straight through it.
0:32What that implies. Size for the possibility that the stop does not hold, especially around events.
0:40Place it where the idea dies, and size for it failing.

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