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Where to place one, why a fixed percentage is wrong in both directions, and the honest limits of what a stop can protect you from.

A cousin trading weekly options with borrowed money. You can see it clearly and you have no authority at all. Which interventions change behaviour, which harden it, and how to work out what you actually owe here.

The moment a position becomes a secret it stops being an investment decision. What concealment does to sizing, to holding periods and to the size of the conversation you are postponing.

A stop belongs where your idea is proven wrong, not where your loss reaches a comfortable number. Four methods, and how to choose between them.

A price band means the stock can show a move you could not have traded. Where they apply, what they do to a stop-loss, and why smallcaps are worst affected.

A job loss is a market event for your portfolio, because it arrives when markets are usually already down. The order in which you use things matters enormously.

Market, limit, stop-loss and GTT — what each one actually does to the order book, and why choosing wrong is expensive.

In February you set a trigger to sell 250 shares at ₹880. In June the company sold the division that was the entire reason you owned it, and you decided to keep the rest for the income. In November the trigger fires — and the sale is made on the authority of a person who was overruled five months ago and never told.

Every investing decision passes through a story about the kind of person you are. Noticing the story is what stops it deciding for you.

GTT, AMO, stop-loss market versus limit, iceberg and bracket orders. The mechanics that decide whether your plan survives contact with the order book.

The mirror image of trend following — many small wins, rare large losses, and a hit rate that flatters until the day it does not. What makes one work where the other fails.