Recent content by Mark P. Cussen

Traders and investors who seek to limit potential losses can use several types of orders to get them into and out of the market at times when they may not be able to place an order manually. Stop-loss orders and stop-limit orders are two tools that can accomplish this, but it is critical to...

Momentum investing was all the rage in the 1990s when the markets were rising like a hot air balloon. This strategy is based upon the idea of purchasing whatever sector of the market has posted the greatest earnings or price gains in the market over the past year. Many funds, such as American...

Options provide investors with ways to make money that cannot be duplicated with conventional securities such as stocks or bonds. And not all types of option trading are high risk ventures; there are many ways to limit potential losses. One of these is by using an iron butterfly strategy that...