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When Do We Sell and Why?
Daily Reckoning· 2026-01-21 23:00
When Do We Sell and Why?My old friend Steve used to write stories about “Old Turkey”. He was a character from Jesse Livermore’s Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.Old Turkey was known for his patience in a bull market. Because the hardest thing for most investors to do is nothing. His advice was always to “sit tight” and don’t sell during a bull market.When younger traders would tell him to sell and buy back in cheaper, his response was:“Why, this is a bull market!”His point was simple. You don’t want to los ...
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Investopedia· 2025-10-09 18:30
Investment Strategy - A trailing stop is a stop order that tracks the price of an investment vehicle as it moves in one direction, but not in the opposite direction [1]