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When the stop price is reached, a stop order becomes a market order. A buy-stop order is entered at a stop price above the current market price. Investors generally use a buy-stop order to limit a loss, or to protect a profit, on a stock that they have sold short. A sell-stop order is entered at a stop price below the current market price.
According to Masteika and Rutkauskas (2012), when viewing a stock's chart pattern over a few days, the investor should buy shortly after the highest chart bar and then place a trailing stop order which lets profits run and cuts losses in response to market price changes (p. 917–918). [3]
One important drawback for applications of the solution of the classical secretary problem is that the number of applicants must be known in advance, which is rarely the case. One way to overcome this problem is to suppose that the number of applicants is a random variable N {\displaystyle N} with a known distribution of P ( N = k ) k = 1 , 2 ...
There are generally two approaches to solving optimal stopping problems. [4] When the underlying process (or the gain process) is described by its unconditional finite-dimensional distributions , the appropriate solution technique is the martingale approach, so called because it uses martingale theory, the most important concept being the Snell ...
In 2011, Caginalp and DeSantis [68] have used large data sets of closed-end funds, where comparison with valuation is possible, in order to determine quantitatively whether key aspects of technical analysis such as trend and resistance have scientific validity. Using data sets of over 100,000 points they demonstrate that trend has an effect ...
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Material theory (or more formally the mathematical theory of inventory and production) is the sub-specialty within operations research and operations management that is concerned with the design of production/inventory systems to minimize costs: it studies the decisions faced by firms and the military in connection with manufacturing, warehousing, supply chains, spare part allocation and so on ...