What is the difference between a Stop order and a Stop Limit order?

A Stop order is an instruction to submit a buy or sell market order if and when the user-specified stop trigger price is attained or penetrated. A Stop order is not guaranteed a specific execution price and may execute significantly away from its stop price. A Sell Stop order is always placed below the current market price and is typically used to limit a loss or protect a profit on a long stock position. A Buy Stop order is always placed above the current market price, and is typically used to limit a loss or help protect a profit on a short sale…

A Trailing Stop Limit order is designed to allow an investor to specify a limit on the maximum possible loss without setting a limit on the maximum possible gain. A "Sell" Trailing Stop Limit moves with the market price and continually recalculates the stop trigger price at a fixed amount below the market price based on the user-defined "trailing" amount. The limit order price is also continuously recalculated based on the limit offset. As the market price rises, both the stop price and the limit price will rise by the trail amount and limit offset respectively, but if the stock price falls, the stop price will remain unchanged. When the stop price is hit, a limit order will be submitted at the last calculated limit price. A "Buy" Trailing Stop Limit order is the mirror image of a sell Trailing Stop Limit, and is generally used in falling markets…

A Stop with Protection order combines the functionality of a stop limit order with a market with protection order. The order is set to trigger at a specified stop price. When the stop price is penetrated, the order is triggered as a market with protection order, which means that it will fill within a specified protected price range equal to the trigger price +/- the exchange-defined protection point range. Any portion of the order that does not fill within this protected range is submitted as a limit order at the exchange-defined trigger price +/- the protection points. Note, as the Stop with Protection order type is a simulated order type and thus handled on a best efforts basis, it is possible no execution may occur in the event the market price immediately moves away from the trigger price…

A Limit if Touched is an order to buy (or sell) an instrument at a specified price or better, below (or above) the market. This order is held in the system until the trigger price is touched. An LIT order is similar to a stop limit order, except that an LIT sell order is placed above the current market price and a stop limit sell order is placed below…