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Old 05-28-2008, 05:14 PM
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Re: Discretionary Trading vs Automated Trading
Torero said:

"Slippage and commissions will eat it alive. The feedback from traders in TS forums have confirmed this."

Can anyone tell me how these slippages happen? Does it mean that I place a StopLoss for a trade to define a Risk then this Risk will end up being higher that I wanted? What makes this happen usually ... please fill me in, this is new for me ...

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