How are corticosteroids used? Corticosteroid drugs are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, asthma, allergies and many other conditions. They also treat Addison's disease, a condition where the adrenal glands aren't able to produce even the minimum amount of corticosteroid that the body needs.
Buying and selling stock. You can give your advisor or investment firm instructions to buy or sell a stock in person, by phone or online. This is called placing your order. Youâll pay a commission each time you buy or sell a stock. things you need to place an order. 1  What you want to buy or sell â You may be able to place multiple trades on 1 order. 2  Your advisor or investment firm will confirm your specific choices before placing your order. 3  How much you want to buy or sell â You may need to buy a minimum amount of the stock.
In that case, you might wish you had used a market order and taken your profit at 410. A third type of sell order is the sell stop order. This is used to protect an investor from a larger loss than he is willing to take. Say you buy a stock at 40, but are unwilling to take a loss of more than 10%. You can place a sell stop order at 36. If the stock never drops that much, the order isn't executed.