GUIDANCE     Having a plan tends to improve where you're headed. Planning while you're still underway, as you go along, stabilizes and modifies your direction. Exit plans are a good thing – like trailing stop orders on your investments, you know? When the scenery changes, the overview isn't the same anymore. [A sell trailing stop order sets the stop price at a fixed amount below the market price with an attached "trailing" amount. As the market price rises, the stop price rises by the trail amou...