stoxclimber said:I invest in companies that I believe are undervalued which in itself limits the downside price movement. Secondly, depending on the price movements I may chose to exit the stock for whatever reason but its a decision i make based on the facts at the time & using my intelligence, not some arbitrary price limit.
IMO if you have access to a computer whenever you need it, and you're investing fundamentally, theres no rational reason to use a stop loss (provided you arent levered). If you're convinced that the average market participant is smarter than you at analysis, and thus the markets views in the price of a microcap falling x% outweights any fundamental analysis you have conducted on the company, then you should not be investing.
Yeh thats fair enough.
But surely you've seen cheap companies become even cheaper?
Each to their own. I mean as long as your method works for you then its all good.
I only start uses stops after what happened to me in May!
I got taken to the f%$&en cleaners!!