Stops

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Stops is our software tool for calculating the changing volatility-adjusted stop-loss settings of a rising stock. One problem traders and investors face is how much to let a stock decline before selling. Most investors, if they use stops at all, lose too much when their stops are triggered. The stops are set too close or too far away. The excess losses could easily add up to a huge amount over a year. Our Stops tool addresses this issue.

The ideal stop-loss setting will minimize the loss if the stock plummets but still give the stock room for normal fluctuations while it continues to climb. Stops includes a “Stop-Lab” where you can experiment with different settings and see the effect of those settings on a stock-chart covering over 5½ years of price activity. Stop-placement in the “Lab” is indicated by a red line that changes as settings are changed. When you find the settings that work the best for you (that fit your own investment time-horizon), those settings can be entered for each of 10 different stocks. Or, you can enter different settings for each of 10 stocks.

Stops will then automatically compute stop-loss settings for you as you enter price data. The actual number is generated and displayed for you. Stop-losses can be based on a fixed-percentage decline or on the volatility of the stock. You can also generate stops that combine the fixed-percentage and volatility-adjusted approaches. The tool can calculate and use volatility measurements to reduce the chances of unnecessary selling because of random lurches of the stock.

Stops includes 19 different ways to calculate a stop, each of which has an infinite range of adjustment possibilities (so you can adjust them to reflect your own tolerance for risk). For example, it can use average deviations, standard deviations, a “Kaufman/Bulkowski” approach, formulas derived from Kase's definition of “true range,” and so on. Stops does all the math for you. You do not even have to know how to compute a standard deviation or know anything about statistics. You simply enter the numbers 1, 2, or 3 in different boxes (or leave the boxes empty). That’s it! That’s all the math you need to know. The only exception would be if you want stops to include a straight percentage as part of its calculations. Then, of course, you would have to specify what you want that to be. You can experiment in the “Lab” until you find the settings that are just right for you.

Stops works on Windows-based systems that have any version of Microsoft's Excel from Excel 97 through Excel 2007. When you click on the Stops icon, Stops automatically opens in and makes use of your spreadsheet program. While Stops is easy to use, there is a lot to it internally. Consequently, it takes about four minutes to load. Once it is loaded, data can be entered as quickly as for any simple Excel spreadsheet. That’s because it is configured so that it will not compute anything until you tell it to by tapping the f-9 key. Simply make all your entries, hit the f-9 key, and wait a few moments for Stops to complete its computations. Stops is not as broadly available as our other products. Generally, it is available only in the U.S., Canada, and a few other countries.

The fee listed here is for a one-year license to use the tool. The amount saved by better stop placement could pay the annual fee many times over. You can get much more information by clicking on "Stops" on the navigation bar (upper left side of the page).

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