Stop Loss — A Stop That Can't Be Hunted
What it is
Stop Loss is a broker-invisible safety net. You name a price on any ticker and what to do if it's hit — sell your shares, or close an option leg — and we watch that level tick by tick. The instant price touches it, we fire your exit. The catch the name hides: the stop never sits at your broker, so it can't be seen or hunted.
Why 'invisible' matters
A normal stop order rests at the exchange. Market makers and algos can see where clusters of stops sit and nudge price just far enough to trip them — the classic stop-hunt — then let it snap back, leaving you sold at the bottom of a wick. Our stop lives with us, not at the broker. There is nothing at the exchange to see, so there is nothing to hunt. Price has to genuinely reach your level for it to fire.
How it works
Pick a ticker and a trigger price — the level that means 'I'm out.'
Choose the exit: sell your 100 shares, or buy/sell an option leg to close.
We watch the live price every couple of seconds off the same real-time feed our other products use.
On the first touch we fire the exit ONCE through your broker (or on paper) — and alert you loudly.
Where it lives
An armed stop sits in your Algo box as a waiting watcher — not in Open Orders, because nothing rests at the broker. It only becomes a real order at the instant it fires: that exit briefly shows in Open Orders, fills, and updates your Position. Arm as many as you like, manual or automatic.
The honest part
A synthetic stop needs a live price feed and a connected broker to fire for real. If the feed goes stale or the broker is offline at the moment of the touch, it cannot act — so we guard the feed and alert you the instant anything looks wrong. It fires once, on touch, at market, so in a fast gap it fills at the next available price, not exactly your level. It is a disciplined exit, not a guarantee of the print — and that is the point: it takes the emotion out of getting out.
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