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Moving your stop-loss to the entry price once the trade is in profit — risk-free from that point on.

A private trading venue where large orders execute away from public exchanges, hiding size and price until after the fact.

An order that must fill entirely and immediately, or be cancelled — no partial fills allowed.

An order that remains active until it fills or you manually cancel it.

A large order that displays only a small portion to the market at a time, hiding the true size.

Fill as much as possible immediately at the specified price; cancel whatever isn't filled.

An order to buy below or sell above the current price — fills only at your specified price or better.

A venue or aggregator that gathers buy/sell interest from multiple participants, providing tighter spreads and deeper books.

An instruction to buy or sell at the best available price right now.

A pair of orders linked so that when one fills, the other is automatically cancelled.

The real-time stream of buy and sell orders hitting the market — used to read short-term supply and demand.

When only part of an order's requested size is executed because not enough liquidity was available.

An order set to trigger when price reaches a specified level in the future — limit and stop orders are...

When a broker rejects your order at the requested price and offers a new price to accept or decline.

The difference between the price you expected on an order and the price it actually filled at.

A pre-set order that closes a losing trade automatically at a maximum acceptable loss.

An order that triggers a market order when price crosses a specified level — used for breakouts and stop-losses.

A stop order that converts into a limit order instead of a market order — caps your worst-case fill price.

A pre-set limit order that closes a winning trade automatically when price reaches your target.

A stop-loss that automatically follows price in your favour, locking in profit as the trade moves.