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		hakanito on July 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Robinhood raises $323M at a $7.6B valuation On BitMEX you can make leveraged short/long bitcoin trades without the downside of owing more than you put in. Max you can lose is 100%. It’s powered by a purpose-built stoploss liquidation engine

robjan on July 23, 2019 [–]

Stoploss only works under fairly stable market conditions. If the sell orderbook suddenly starts to get a lot bigger than the buy side then it's likely that the price will fall below your limit price before the order fills.

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