Two ways to avoid nasty losses in the stock markets

With markets so volatile, investors have lost a packet as 'stop loss' orders were automatically triggered. But many of those losses could easily have been avoided, says Bengt Saelensminde. Here, he explains how.

UK Investors have lost tens, if not hundreds of billions over the last couple of weeks.

For some it's been a nightmare. But what most investors won't have realised is that many of the worst losses could easily have been avoided. How?

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Bengt graduated from Reading University in 1994 and followed up with a master's degree in business economics.

 

He started stock market investing at the age of 13, and this eventually led to a job in the City of London in 1995. He started on a bond desk at Cantor Fitzgerald and ended up running a desk at stockbroker's Cazenove.

 

Bengt left the City in 2000 to start up his own import and beauty products business which he still runs today.