{"id":1414,"date":"2010-05-21T20:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T02:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2010-05-21T20:33:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T02:33:25","slug":"bull-bear-market-stop-orders-protect-your-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/bull-bear-market-stop-orders-protect-your-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Whether it’s a bull or bear market, you need to be using stop orders to protect your gains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stock<\/a>You live and you learn, you know what I’m saying? I love being an investor, but I love it even more when I know I’m being a smart investor. One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned about investing is that you absolutely must protect your gains when you got them.<\/p>\n

How do you accomplish this?<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the easiest ways to do this is to put in a stop order<\/a> a little bit lower then where you’re at. You also don’t want to blindly go into a trade either, unless you’re solely a fundamental investor.<\/p>\n

The best way I’ve found to get into a stock is when the 50 day moving average crosses above the 200 day moving average. Of course, this is only one indicator and you may want to use more.<\/p>\n

You can also use a trailing stop order<\/a> as well. I don’t like these as much because it could possibly work against you. You can even use a combination of a stop order at a lower price and with a\u00a0 trailing stop on top.<\/p>\n

In a bear or volatile market like we are in now where we don’t know how low the market could go, stop orders can really protect a good percentage of your gains and get you completely out of a stock if it’s going to drop below your initial entry point.<\/p>\n

If you are new to investing in individual stocks or haven’t considered using stop losses yet. I hope this info helps protect your stock gains and keeps you out of a bear market in this wonderful global economy we are living in now. You know, where a Country on the other side of the globe (Europe) is crashing and the whole economy suffers because of it. That kind of market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You live and you learn, you know what I’m saying? I love being an investor, but I love it even more when I know I’m being a smart investor. One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned about investing is that you absolutely must protect your gains when you got them. How do you accomplish this? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[923],"tags":[924,1154,927,926,929,925,928],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.signupandmakemoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}