You buy a stock. It goes down, now what?

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You buy a stock. It goes down, now what?

An SI Board Since July 1998

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62	I use Schwab. They are not the cheapest, but I've never had an execution p	Bald Eagle	-	7/9/1998
61	<<I'm set with CADE>> Since you mention CADE, let me relate my	Bald Eagle	-	7/9/1998
60	re: CMND I dont know if this will go up or not. But I have seen too much hype	ratan lal	-	7/9/1998
59	I've been noticing lately that more stocks seem to be jumping off of a clif	PaddyD	-	7/9/1998
58	The stock that holds a pattern for 30 trading days xybr at 5 will this go down	richard ky lee	-	7/9/1998
57	Putting a stop less then 10% below your purchase price seems extremely tight fo	The Ox	-	7/8/1998
56	I agree with you that stop loss orders are tough to work with, at least until y	Patric	-	7/8/1998
55	Your story is one I've heard before. Perhaps the mental stop loss approach	Investor2	-	7/8/1998
54	I bet your broker thanks you for all of the business you give him. You must us	Investor2	-	7/8/1998
53	Re: "I bought 200 shares of VVUS @ 13, my mental stop loss was at 12 but w	Investor2	-	7/8/1998
52	Re: "I think the best bet is never average down until you are pretty darn	Investor2	-	7/8/1998
51	With FPAM, you've got to be real lucky. Won't be able to catch the bot	Laparrot	-	7/8/1998
50	It's only a rumor? That figures. Sigh ... TED	TEDennis	-	7/8/1998
49	Hey! Wasn't <I>I</I> the one who started that rumor over on Yah	EL KABONG!!!	-	7/8/1998
48	Ditto here. I bought CSGI at 6'ish. Until recently, it was lolly-gagging	TEDennis	-	7/8/1998
47	I had a similar problem last week. I had posted on one of the threads here or o	EL KABONG!!!	-	7/8/1998
46	At least get the name right ... it's the "TED Effect". Geez. TE	TEDennis	-	7/8/1998
45	This is known in the trade as the "Dennis Effect". Many a smart Wall	EL KABONG!!!	-	7/8/1998
44	OK, so I bought a stock. It went down. That figures. You mean it's not s	TEDennis	-	7/8/1998
43	It was experiences similar to yours that caused me to stop using stop losses. I	Bald Eagle	-	7/8/1998
42	In January of 1996 I bought 1000 shares of RTI at 11 with a stop loss at 10. T	PaddyD	-	7/8/1998
41	Nothing, but nothing works all of the time. You need to evaluate each company,	Raptech	-	7/8/1998
40	Thanks for the input. My put order hasn't gone through yet on CHKPF, but I&	Bald Eagle	-	7/8/1998
39	I like to average down, either by buying more of the shares outright or I will	Elmer Flugum	-	7/8/1998
38	Well, I couldn't say what I would have done. I have used various ways of cu	Bald Eagle	-	7/8/1998

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