Pinpointing the right approach to placing winning trades is challenging. After you’ve designed a potentially profitable trade, you need tools to help you manage your risk. Not only do you need to ...

I have been doing a lot of research on different methods to place trailing stops in order to secure profits and reduce the downside risk for the stocks in the portfolio. I was planning to introduce ...

Managing Your Risk While Giving Your Gains Room To Grow Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy.

Taking a profit is often an overlooked aspect of trading. Yet, no matter how you look at it — the only way to earn money is to keep closing profitable trades. Resisting greed is not always easy, but ...

A trailing stock loss is an order that executes when the price of a security moves a percentage or dollar amount in a specified direction. Investors use trailing stop orders to protect gains. A ...

Henry Hoenig has three decades of journalism experience as a news and economics editor in the U.S. and Asia, handling coverage of global commodity markets and Asian equity markets. He previously ...