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Limits and alerts

Use limits and alerts to help maximise your investment performance

Setting a limit on the price you'd like to buy or sell shares at is a useful way to help maximise your investment. If you are going to use limits such as stop-loss or tracking stop-loss, it is important to give careful consideration to the level at which they are set.

Blips in a share price that occur during the day (in particular when the market opens and closes) can trigger a sale you didn't intend. To protect yourself against this happening you can use a limit safeguard.

Remember, once you've set a limit, your instructions will be automatically carried out if the market price meets your target.

Alerts

Rather than set a limit that will automatically trigger a sale or purchase when your price is met, you can set an alert. We'll email you when the share price has been met, leaving you to choose whether to act or not. You can ask us to inform you when a share price has risen to, or fallen below, a certain price – or both.

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