Limit order

A limit order buys or sells only at your price or better. You control the price, the market decides whether you trade, and it can fill partly. In one full NVDA trade it sits at the top of the book; the trade-off against a market order comes from how the book works. Limit orders on Mochatrade.

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In the help centreSee the order types available on Mochatrade
  • Market orderA market order buys or sells immediately at the best price available. It always fills, but at the ask if you buy and…
  • SlippageSlippage is the gap between the price you expected and the price you got. It comes from the spread, from a thin book…
  • Partial fillA partial fill is when only part of a limit order executes because not enough size sat at your price; the rest keeps…
  • Stop-limit orderA stop-limit order becomes a limit order, not a market order, at its trigger. It refuses a bad fill in a gap, and that…
  • Take-profit orderA take-profit order closes a position automatically when the price reaches your target, usually as a limit order so…
  • Max slippageMax slippage is the setting that caps how far from the quoted price a market order may fill; beyond it the order is…

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