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Greg's Stop Loss Kata

Testing is very hard when time is involved ...

A trailing stop loss is a term used in financial trading. For a very in depth explanation you can read here http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/03/080603.asp and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_(exchange)#Stop_orders

However we do not need a huge amount of background in order to do the kata as we are going to limit the problem a bit.

The general idea is that when you buy into a stock at a price say $10. You want it to automatically get sold if the stock goes below $9 (-$1). If we use the term "trailing" that means that id the price goes up to $11 then the sell point becomes $10.