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Order typesIn the past, a person would typically have to go to the brokerage or another financial entity to buy or sell a security. The trade would be then settled through a personal meeting or, as technology progressed, over the phone. Nonetheless, the implementation of modern technology within the financial markets of the 21st century made placing buy and sell orders as easy as a few mouse button clicks. Nowadays, many trading platforms allow their clients to execute various types of orders beyond ordinary buy and sell orders. Key takeaways: Using limit orders is generally considered one of the safest ways to buy or sell a security. Modern technology allows placing buy and sell orders with a few mouse clicks. A stop-loss and stop-limit orders are used to protect an investor’s capital. A trailing stop locks in some of the accrued profits. Quick trade orders get instantly filled by a single or double click on a bid or ask button. Limit order A buy limit order is used to buy a security at a specified price. This type of order is executed automatically in a case when the price of a security is lower than the value of the buy limit order. A sell limit order is used to sell a security at a specified price. It gets automatically filled when the price of a security is higher than the value of the sell limit order. This design occasionally allows for the execution of the buy limit order or the sell limit order at a better price. Generally, limit orders are one of the safest ways to purchase or sell a security. Quick-trade order Some trading platforms allow the use of quick-trade orders. A quick-trade order is a type of order that is instantly filled by a single or double click on a bid or ask button in a trading platform. These orders are relatively safe to use. However, filling this type of order in highly volatile markets might be difficult due to a quickly changing price. Market order When traders choose to use a market order, they let the market set the price of security. In essence, this means that for a buy market order, a trade execution occurs at the nearest ask. For a sell market order, a trade execution takes place at the nearest bid. The use of the market order is less safe in comparison to limit order because it allows for worse filling of orders in illiquid markets and markets dominated by algorithmic trading. However, some platforms offer their clients the option to choose the tolerance threshold for such trade orders. Good ‘Til Canceled order (GTC) This type of order remains active until it is filled or canceled. Stop-loss and stop-limit orders A stop-loss order sells a position at a market price if it reaches or passes a specified price. Unlike a stop-loss order, a stop-limit order liquidates a position only at a specified or better price. These types of orders are used to protect investor’s capital before depreciation. Trailing stop order A trailing stop order trails the price as it moves in the trader’s favor. For a long position, a trailing stop moves higher with the price but stays unchanged when the price falls. Similarly, for a short position, a trailing stop moves lower with the price but remains unchanged when the price rises. The intent of a trailing stop is to lock in some of the accrued profits. Please feel free to express your ideas and thoughts in the comment section. DISCLAIMER: This analysis is not intended to encourage any buying or selling of any particular securities. Furthermore, it should not be a basis for taking any trade action by an individual investor or any other entity. Therefore, your own due diligence is highly advised before entering a trade.
COINBASE:ETHUSDEducation
by Tradersweekly
2
Q&As: order bookThere are people who trade based in order book exclusively & promote these so called orderflow trading platforms, even these days. Surely, it's a great deed to learn this interesting, exotic & unusual skill, but the thing is it's completely unnecessary. The real use cases for DOM aka LOB aka order book aka Level 2 data are mitigating adverse selection, reducing market impact & spotting potential counter agents. If you think deeper, all these issues are really all about position sizing and nothing else, you can operate as big as it's possible (depending how much diminishing returns you can let go), and the only thing that can help you figure it all out is order book. The one & only principle of orderbook analysis is to understand where's us (operators), and where's them (ones who just need to be filled), be nice with yours & be a nice counter agent for them. It's very simple, clients place big orders that immediately stand out. Everything else is us, we're spreading our orders equally all around the book. For some reason not many think about it, but as a maker it's good to not only provide liquidity aka make the market, but also to consume these huge limit orders if it lets you to offload some risk or to open a position if the prices are good. By doing so you always make the market better, the faster and in more clear fashion the market activity is unwinding - better for all of us. If you look at order book histogram and imagine it turned horizontally, you'll see peaks & valleys. So being inside a loading range (past a level) or nearby risk offloading areas (predetermined exit areas), you spread your limit orders the way they kinda fill these valleys, and you can also use market orders to kinda smooth the sharp peaks in order book. That's how you reduce your market impact.Your impact will start being too high when by filling the valleys you'll be creating new peaks, and by smoothing peaks you'll be creating new valleys. Easy enough? All the wise-ass reinforced learning & stochastic control models will output the same behavior, just a bit worse because they'll never defeat your "feel". They way you can process a feedback loop, as an organic, is DOPE. By monitoring your position in the queue you can decide to replace some limit orders that sit deep to somewhere where probabilities won't be your enemies. If you're not in the first 5% of the queue at these places, your're prone to adverse selection. Closer you are to the front of the level, the worse position in the queue is ok. Negligible but stable adverse selection has a huge negative long term impact, should be taken very srsly. In theory, it makes sense to care about order book as soon as you start trading more than 1 lot or if 1 lot is already a serious size on a given instrument. In practice, when you notice a statistically significant drop in revenue per lot on a given instrument, minding all other factors are equal, it's time to open dem books.
LSE:DOMEducation
by gorx1
👶 Trading For Beginners | ORDER TYPES 👦👧 There are multiple ways of opening a trade in a trading terminal. Here is the list of universal order types that you MUST know: 1. Market Order A market order is a trade order to buy or sell a desired financial instrument on a current market price. In such an order type, the price is determined by the market. Constant price fluctuations and spreads make market order quite risky way of opening a trading position. 2. Limit Order A limit order is a trade order to buy or sell a desired financial instrument at a specific price level. It allows the trader to enter the market on a strict price level ignoring the price fluctuations and spreads. A limit order can be referred to as a buy limit order or a sell limit order. 3. Buy/Sell Stop Order Buy stop order is used to buy at a price above the market price, and it is triggered when the market price touches or goes through the Buy Stop leve. Sell stop order is used to sell when a specified price is reached. The selection of order types is based on a trader's trading style. Let me know in a comment section which order types do you apply in your trading! Please, like this post and subscribe to our tradingview page!
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by UnitedSignals
11
👶 Trading For Beginners | ORDER TYPES 👦👧 There are multiple ways of opening a trade in a trading terminal. Here is the list of universal order types that you MUST know: 1. Market Order A market order is a trade order to buy or sell a desired financial instrument on a current market price. In such an order type, the price is determined by the market. Constant price fluctuations and spreads make market order quite risky way of opening a trading position. 2. Limit Order A limit order is a trade order to buy or sell a desired financial instrument at a specific price level. It allows the trader to enter the market on a strict price level ignoring the price fluctuations and spreads. A limit order can be referred to as a buy limit order or a sell limit order. 3. Buy/Sell Stop Order Buy stop order is used to buy at a price above the market price, and it is triggered when the market price touches or goes through the Buy Stop leve. Sell stop order is used to sell when a specified price is reached. The selection of order types is based on a trader's trading style. Let me know in a comment section which order types do you apply in your trading! Please, like this post and subscribe to our tradingview page!
Education
by UnitedSignals
11
Order box trading This is educational :) You can see that the price is a bit "blurry" at the first order box. Why is this? Financial institutes never invest their whole money at the same time to get "stopped out" or "margin called". They do this to check how the price is reacting to their orders. For example, if they want to invest 100 million euros in a long position; firstly 20m, then 30, and then 50. This "blurr" will form what we call the order box. Now, what happens? All of the orders will not go to reality. maybe only 70% will. Then, when the price touches this order box area, the price will bump again as a consequence of all the underlying orders. This is what you see at the "support order box". Same thing at the top. Steps to spot these: 1, find the "blurr" 2, watch for confirmation (aka = second time it touches) 3, trade the 3rd, or 2nd if u are brave, it touches this box. 4, place stop loss just above the box But what for take profit? Place it in either the other side of the box, or eventually, at 0,618 of Fibonacci. I use this to trade with the trend and not against it. Questions? Ask them in the comment area :D
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by Spketss
4
2 TARGETS EXPLAINED - POSITION SIZING - BANKING PROFITS Hi All, I recently have been asked to publish this diagram for executing a 2 target order. I have labeled the diagram with order sequence in a perfect world scenario. Steps below relate to numbers on chart I am not telling you this is how everyone does it and this is only based on the questions I have been asked, every strategy has its own order entries stops and targets. 1. Price action comes down to hit your Limit Order Entry/Entries - when we find the reason for entry in this case we have identified this as an advanced pattern. When price action has at least past the B leg and we anticipate that price will continue downwards towards our D completion and predict where the Market is most likely to go after this, we then decide on our entry type and execute the order - The most important thing is to know where your entry stops and targets go before the entry level is reached. We mark these area's out and place 2 Order Entries @ Half position size. So let's say you would like to buy 20k EURUSD and the spread was 2.3 pips with a pip cost of $1 per 10k (minilot) trade. The cost would be: 2.3 pips * $1 per minilot * 2 minilots = $4.60 Now let's say you bought 20k in EURUSD, but this time, you bought two separate minilots, 10k and 10k. The cost for this would be Position #1 - 2.3 pips * $1 per minilot * 1 minilot = $2.30 Position #2 - 2.3 pips * $1 per minilot * 1 minilot = $2.30 The 2nd scenario costs the same as the 1st but allows two different sets of stops and limits (one set per ticket). So now we have the Order in Place with your target 1 and 2 and only exposing you to a stop loss of your original 20k After D has completed you need to make sure to bring your targets down until D has completed. 2. Now you have your order filled, based on historical data and forward testing results in the most likely of places price will retrace to being the 38.2% for T1 and 61.8% for T2 - now in your testing results you may just take one position and use the 50.0% for your one target. Keep in mind this is just an example. We have already banked our target 1 with 43pips - Price can do 3 things Go up Sideways or down. We hope price would just continue to hit our T2 - in this case price will retrace when sellers have their orders in at the 38.2% 3. We then move our stops up for position 2 to break even. 4. Price action usually will retrace and can indeed come back down to stop you out for a break even trade on position 2 but this has already banked 43 pips at 10k Half Position. 5. Price action doesn't stop us out and we are looking for Target 2 to be acquired, when T2 is obtained we have completed a perfect trade. And target 2 has banked 69 pips You can also trail a stop when the price action hits T1 if you need to sleep or leave for some reason and don't want to leave the position exposed to loss if it turns in the wrong direction. You can take step number 4 after the retrace and use the LLLC candle wick and trail the stop 5 pips below or above the HHHC candle wick depending on bearish or bullish. Note: some brokers or platforms do have the feature to have two limits on the one order. Also note the dollar figure is great that's what we all want is to make money in the market, the most important thing though is to not go broke, protect capital, dont expose yourself to too much risk, bank profits and don't be greedy. Being a consistently profitable trader putting yourself in the highest probable trades, Like Warren Buffett Says The stock market is a device of transferring money from the impatient to the patient. Their are a million ways to make and lose money in Forex - good luck I hope this helps for all those who asked to post it
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by Oztrade
2