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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Up In Smoke" data-source="post: 4602561" data-attributes="member: 79702"><p>Most trades are just a few bucks, so today I had a couple stocks sell when they hit my stop/loss (Apple, Tesla and Nvidia) price.  So for less than $20.00 I saved $3-4 grand in loses.  Now I will set a buy order for those same stocks at a lower share price.  I usually set my sale/buy orders at 5-7% increments.  I also like to buy options that are in the money when stocks move more than 12-15%.  I never catch the bottom or the top, but I can make a nice return in a choppy market.  Because I have long positions of UPS through payroll deduction, I trade them 2-3 times a week and usually to the short.  I would say I bought and sold UPS 50 plus times this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>