What is a Stop Loss Order? How does one place a Stop Loss Order on Fisdom?

A Stop Loss order is a trading strategy by which users can predefine the trigger price and the market price, and the order will be placed automatically with the pre-set order price once the market price reaches the predefined trigger price.

It is an order placed, which gets activated only when the market price of the relevant scrip reaches or crosses a threshold price, which is called trigger price. The trigger price will be quoted as per the risk you are ready to bear. Until then the order does not enter the market but sits with the exchange. When the market hits the trigger price, the order is forwarded to the exchange. The order gets traded at any price (best price) between the Trigger price and the order price.

Things to know about Stop Loss Order:

A stop-loss order specifies that a stock be bought or sold when it reaches a specified price known as the stop price. Stop-loss orders are designed to limit an investor‚s loss on a position in a security.

Buy Stop Loss Order:

Market Price < Trigger price < Order Price. (Trigger price entered should be greater than the market price)

Sell Stop Loss Order:

Market Price > Trigger price > Order Price. (Trigger price entered should be lesser than the market price)

Click on the share you want to place a stop-loss order, click on sell, then click on Delivery/Intraday & then select trigger price under ‚what price‚.