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Tuesday, 10 July 2012

When a Slow Stop-Out is No Bad Thing

Posted on 08:03 by Unknown
This morning I took it upon myself to establish a long position in a gapped-down stock, with a reasonably tight stop order placed not far below my entry price. The price fell further (of course) but didn't gap, and my stop order with ETX Capital stopped me out exactly as expected. Well done them.

When I checked on my identical position with SpreadEx I discovered I hadn't been stopped out, that
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