What We Need To Access the Market and Trade It - Part V

There are four types of pending orders available on the terminal:

Buy Limit - Buy provided the future "ASK" price is equal to the pre-defined value. The current price level is higher than the value of the placed order. Orders of this type are usually placed in anticipation that the security price, having fallen to a certain level, will increase.

Buy Stop - Buy provided the future "ASK" price is equal to the pre-defined value. The current price level is lower than the value of the placed order. Orders of this type are usually placed in anticipation that the security price, having reached a certain level, will continue to increase.

Sell Limit - Sell provided the future "BID" price is equal to the pre-defined value. The current price level is lower than the value of the placed order. Orders of this type are usually placed in anticipation of that the security price, having increased to a certain level, will fall.

Sell Stop - Sell provided the future "BID" price is equal to the pre-defined value. The current price level is higher than the value of the placed order. Orders of this type are usually placed in anticipation of that the security price, having reached a certain level, will continue to fall. Stop Loss and/or Take Profit orders can be attached to a pending order. After a pending order has triggered, its Stop Loss and/or Take Profit levels will be attached to the newly opened position automatically.

Stop Loss - A Stop Loss order is used to minimize losses if the security price has started to move in an unprofitable direction. If the security price reaches this level, the position will be closed automatically.

Such orders are always connected to an open position or a pending order.

The brokerage company can place them together only with a market or a pending order. The terminal compares long positions against the ASK price and short positions against the BID price.

There is also an automated Stop Loss order called a Trailing Stop which continuously adjusts its position to a fixed distance from the current price while a trade is increasing in profit but holds its position if the current price starts to move against the trade, thus locking in profits.

Take Profit

The Take Profit order is intended for automatically exiting with a profit when the security price has reached a certain level. Execution of this order results in closing of the position.

It is always connected to an open position or a pending order.

The order can be requested together only with a market or a pending order. The terminal compares long positions against the ASK price and short positions against the BID price.

Important: Execution prices for all trade operations are defined by the broker; Stop Loss and Take Profit orders can only be executed for an open position but not for pending orders.