Monday, 16 January 2012

Trailing Stops

Trailing stops are a good thing.  As a stock goes up, I move the stop loss point higher so that if the stocks starts heading back down, I can exit hopefully with a profit.

PPL started plumeting last week.  It hit my stop at $27.32 and then kept going down.  It's currently below $27, so I'm glad I had the stop in there.

They don't always work in my favour though.  IPL.UN headed south as well and hit my stop at $17.39.  It bounced back soon after and it's currently trading at above $18.

So, got some cash in the account now.  Time to start looking for new buying opportunities.

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