SelfTrade, the online broking subsidiary of DAB Bank Group, the pan-European electronic brokerage, has launched two trading services, Stop Sell and Stop Buy, aimed at brokers who do not monitor share prices all day.

Stop Sell will be most frequently used as a defensive tool, whereby traders can sell shares if the prices are falling. It enables traders to pre-define a percentage loss on a holding or define a price that they are prepared to sell at if a stock's price starts to fall.