Stop Order Question

My limit order for BBBB at 44.1 was executed today.  I want to enter a stop order at 43.5, but my stop price is higher than the bid price. 

Where am I screwing this up?  Am I looking for a stop-limit order?  I want to simply have a stop price of 43.5, what do I do?

Blue Chip you are talking about a sell stop correct?

let me say that buying at 44.1 and having a sell stop at 43.5 is not a good idea..you are going to get stopped out.

The way a SELL STOP works is its a "net" order that if a stock drops a certain point then you trigger a sell and based on the second leg of the order then you sell..

So here is an example.

I buy FSLR at 115 today (I didnt)

I dont want it to drop below 105 and still be long the stock, so I put in a SELL STOP order as follows-

SELL 100 shares of FSLR at 105 STOP and the trigger limit order is 105 (or say 104.75 etc).

You can also have a SELL STOP as the sell portion of the order is a MARKET order..so if the STOP is triggered than the order turns into a market order.

SELL STOPS are semi complicated and you should know what it is, how it works and what happens when it is triggered-

This seemed to be good at explaining the order