#OrderTypes101
Learn about the most common order types and how to use them. 👇
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🟢 1. Market Order
✅ Instant Buy/Sell at the best available price.
⚠️ Useful for getting in or out quickly, but with less price control.
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🟡 2. Limit Order
📍 You define the price.
✅ Total control, ideal for waiting for the best moment.
⚠️ May take time or not execute if your price is not reached.
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🔵 3. Stop-Limit Order
🚨 Uses an "activation price" + a limit price.
🛡️ Perfect for protecting profits or limiting losses.
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🔴 4. Market Stop Order
🚨 Activated with a stop price and executed as a market order.
💨 Fast, but without price precision.
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🟣 5. Trailing Stop
🔁 Your stop moves with the price.
📈 Ideal for following the trend and securing profits.
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⚫ 6. OCO – One Cancels the Other
🎯 Combines a limit order and a stop-limit order.
🔒 Place your take profit and stop loss at the same time.
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🟠 7. Post-Only
🧱 Only published in the order book.
🏦 Useful for being a "maker" and paying less fees.
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🟤 8. Fill or Kill (FOK)
💥 Executes everything instantly or cancels completely.
🎯 Precise and fast use.
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⚪ 9. Immediate or Cancel (IOC)
⚡ Executes what it can instantly, and cancels the rest.
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🧠 Final Tip:
👉 Understanding order types gives you control, reduces risks and improves your strategy.
📊 Do you already use any of these? Which is your favorite?
