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right to you on Main Street. How's it going out there? It's Friday, January 2nd, 2015. Happy New Year.

I'm Frank Curzier hosted the frankly speaking podcast where I answer all your questions

about the market, stocks, economy economy anything else you want to throw at me courage you on gmail.com

I want to jump right in here the the new year, the question from Dave, which is Frank.

I began to listen to your podcast a few months ago, good stuff.

I wanted to see if you can comment on one of your upcoming podcast,

what is a good stop percentage that would be used

such that you don't stop out too early but also ensure that you protect principle

effectively. That's D.

It's a good question, Dave.

It all depends on what stock you're recommending.

I mean, for me, covering small cap stocks in one of my newsletters which is small stock

specialists I usually had a 35% trailing stop and that's because every stock I recommended

I made sure I had more than triple digit upside potential so it had to have more

than 100% upside so I was willing to risk 35% but most of the time it wouldn't hit that

35% because it was a 35% trailing stops which means when my

recommendations came out sometimes the stocks would pop a little bit because we

had a lot of subscribers a lot of subscribers,

of people rushed into the stock,

and that would push that stop even,

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