Read? Portfolio Management - Stop Losses? Stop losses: Do or Do not. Don't doubt! - Createwealth8888 If you strongly believe in your technical analysis skills and also trust your favourite technical indicators then you should act on good faith, take that stop loss; go home and sleep. If you are like me don't believe in stop loss, then how do you control the damages to your capital? Instead of using STOP LOSS to manage risks, I manage risks from different perspectives. I have trained myself very hard to look at Portfolio and not at stocks so a few falling stocks may not impose a big risk to me and don't bother me too. When it becomes necessary; I will write off losing stocks as zero value and take that losses in the Realized P/L. There is no point looking at them as it does nothing to improve your investing skills. Just move on! If magically ......