Posted On: 12/02/2012 8:04:59 AM
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A trailing stop order can let you protect profits. As the stock price goes up, you can tell your broker to keep trailing it and only sell if it falls, say, $2 from its highest price ever. At that point, the order gets converted to a market order.
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