What type of stoplosses does everyone use prefferable in the short term market
completly depends on how short term you are talking and what type of stratergy you are using i even have diffrent stoplosses for the same stratergy for diffrent pairs(some pairs need more room to breath than others).
if you have a stratergy already it might be a idea to look back in history on the charts to find out whats a resonable stop loss to set, also taking in mind its down also to how much you are prepared to risk in any 1 trade
risk to reward ratio is also a common phase which will confirm to you if your stratergy is good or not
i.e some would say if your target profit is 10 pips for example and you set a stop loss of 30 pips if you get stopped out you need 3 wiining trades just to break even so the risk to reward ratio is not good
if your stratergy has a target profit of 60 pips and this is reapetable with a 20 pip stop loss that will give you a good risk to reward
taking in mind there is no point setting a target profit of 60 pips if it is not realistic (to your stratergy) in the first place
hope that helps a little
sorry i cant give you more of a straight forward answer