: Limiting losses on a short position. If you bet a stock will fall but it starts rising instead, a buy stop automatically buys the shares back to "stop" your losses. Sell Stop Orders
A is an instruction to buy a security once it reaches a price above the current market level, while a sell stop order is an instruction to sell once the price drops below the current market level. buy stop vs sell stop
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