[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by lewdog

What are your guys recommendations for placing Stop loss orders on securities where you've made a decent profit from you initial investment.

I bought into Canopy Growth at $8. It's currently trading around $21. Where would you place a Stop Loss order to lock in profits? It's a volatile stock that I could see having large swings based on more/less regulations. Should I consider a Stop loss around $16 where I could sell my shares for a double profit if it dropped. I could then consider buying back in at a point lower than this if it kept declining for a while?

What are your strategies for locking in gains using Stop Loss orders?

Also I think what you can do , if your worried about going to work and not being able to keep an eye on it just put your stop loss in that morning before you leave. Some stocks like you say will fluctuate within a day so you don't want it to drop from 21 to 19 and trigger a sale and then run back up to 22. So you need to keep your stop loss out of the range of fluctuation.