Limitdown, I agree with your assesments about protection of principle and a method by which brokerage firms can address those particular needs. I have worked on the inside of this Online Trading industry for several years and in my experience one of the best solutions, both technical and customer oriented, that I have seen is available with Nexa 2.0 (www.nexasecurities.com) They allow stop limit orders that are user configurable on the client side. And, they are planning on implementing several other flexible order methods in the coming months. Additionally, it has been my experience since I began working with the above brokerage firm that they are very interested AND responsive to client input on how to add new functionality to their software. Hope this helps give you some more information to combat the evil Market Makers. OppFynder