Difference between SL order and SLM order

With a stop order, your trade will be executed only when the security you want to buy or sell reaches a particular price (the stop price). Once the stock has reached this price, a stop order essentially becomes a market order and is filled.

Stop loss market orders are stop loss orders that use stop market orders as their underlying order type. Stop market orders are placed at a specific price, and if the market price reaches the order price, the order will be executed as a market order.

Hi,

What is a Stop Loss order?

When you are holding a particular stock/F&O/commodity, you fear the losses that can happen when the price starts moving against you. If you place an order to limit such a loss it is called as a Stop Loss order.

SL: If you bought a stock at 100 and you want to limit your losses to 95 which is 5 points. So if the markets come's against you your order should ideally get squared off at 95.

SL-M: Now with the same example what if the market crashes and passes your SL of 95 but does not execute can leave your SL order pending? this can happen if we have sudden fall. So to avoid these situations we use SL-M and keep a trigger price which is 95. Now even if the markets fall by a margin the order will get executed 95 or below.

My Advice: It is always better to use SL-M and avoid risk.

Hope it helped :)

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i have selled PVR at 515 and put a buy order SLM at 810 but it gets executed at 816 how could this happen is SLM order takes some difference ,and if yes then how much differnce should be kept in order to overcome losses