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execution·Execution

Slippage

The difference between the price you intended to trade and the price you got. Worse on stops, in vol, and at session turns.

How the desk uses this

Execution terms like this one — fills, slippage, stops — are easiest to learn from real trades. Every stock and ETF trade Sage closes is on the public trade log, win or lose.

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