The robot sends your stops to Ameritrade, and they're then published to the book and promptly taken out by marketmakers. If you could enter a stop and just have it kept in the robot until the price fell to that point, at which point a market sell order would be sent, that would give you the safety of the stop without worrying about moving the market.
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