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      Course Overview

      Expanding your futures knowledge

      • Comparing stock trading with futures trading
      • Contract specifications
      • Physical delivery vs. cash settlement
      • Understanding product moves
      • Economic events

      Take your trade plan to the next level

      • Download the trade plan
      • What kind of trader am I?
      • What does risk actually mean?
      • Managing futures risk
      • Utilizing stop orders

      Practice what you've learned

      • Drawing trade trendlines
      • Defining your parameters for exiting a trade
      • Entering a trade using moving averages
      Master the Trade: Futures
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      Master the Trade: Utilizing Stop Orders

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      Stop orders are an important tool that traders should consider when building their trade plan. A frequent question from new traders is, “How do I know where to place my stop orders?” While many traders use price action in their trading plan to identify exit points, the specifics for each individual trader will be unique.

      Let’s look at a few examples of how Bob Iaccino uses price action to indicate the placement of a stop order.

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