Order Types*

FOREX.com's dealing platform provides sophisticated order entry and tracking. Orders may be entered at any rate - inside or outside the existing spread - using the following order types:

Market Order
A order is an order you use to get into a buy or sell position at the current market price. Market orders are handled systematically and filled at the best available rate - without human intervention. Most trades are filled instantaneously to avoid hanging trades or unnecessary delays.
Limit orders
An order with restrictions on the maximum price to be paid or the minimum price to be received.

If a trader is long USD/CHF at 1.4627¹, a limit order would be entered to sell dollars above that price, for example, at 1.4800⁰.
Stop Loss orders
Order type whereby an open position is automatically liquidated at a specific price. Often used to minimize exposure to losses if the market moves against an investor's position.

If the trader above is long USD at 1.4627¹, a stop loss order could be left at 1.4549¹, in case the dollar depreciates below 1.4549¹.

As a rule, sell stops are filled on our bid, and buy stops are filled on our offer. This allows FOREX.com to fill client stop orders at the rate they requested in almost every case. In the rare instance that the market gaps over a requested rate, the stop is filled at the best available price. This is an important point for traders who are accustomed to being filled on sell stops when the offer reaches the requested order rate. For example, if a stop order is placed to sell USD/CHF at 1.4549¹, the trader will be filled when the bid reaches 1.4549¹ (i.e. the bid/offer is 1.4549¹/54¹ ).
One Cancels Other orders (OCO's)
A contingent order providing that one part of the order is cancelled if the other part is executed. This is a particularly useful order type in that it allows traders to execute specific trading strategies based on technical analysis - without having to watch the market tick by tick.

As above, with the trader long USD/CHF at 1.4627¹, a typical OCO order would be a stop loss at 1.4562¹, and a limit (take profit) at 1.4700¹. If one part of the order is filled, the other is automatically cancelled.
If / Then Single
A conditional order providing that if the first order ("If" order) is executed, the second order ("Then" order) is activated as a live, single order.

In cases where the If order does not execute, the Then single order will remain dormant. When either part of an If / Then order is cancelled, all parts of the order are cancelled as well.

An example of an If / Then single order would be to first place an 'If' limit order to buy EUR/USD at 1.0690¹ fifty points below the current market rate of 1.0740¹. The 'Then' part of the order would be a limit sell order to take profit at 1.0770¹ (eighty pips above the 'If' order execution rate of 1.0690¹). If the market dips to 1.0690¹ the 'If' order will execute and the 'Then' leg of the order will become active. Note: the 'Then' order could also have been a stop loss order at 1.0650¹ (40 pips below the execution rate of 1.0690¹).
If /Then OCO
A conditional order providing that if the first order ("If" order) is executed, the second order ("Then" order) is activated as a live, One Cancels Other (OCO) order. Full description of an OCO order. The execution of either one of the two "Then" orders automatically cancels the other.

In cases where the 'If' single order does not execute, the "Then" OCO order will remain dormant. When any part of an If / Then OCO order is cancelled, including either leg of the OCO order, all parts of the order are cancelled as well.

An example of an If / Then OCO order would be to first place an 'If' limit order to buy USD/JPY at 118.80¹, fifty points below the current market rate of 119.30¹. The "Then" part of the order would be an OCO order: one leg of the OCO could be a limit sell order to take profit at 119.60¹, (80 pips above the execution rate of 118.80) the other leg a stop loss order to sell at 118.50¹ (30 points below the execution rate). If the market reaches 118.80¹, the "If" single order is executed, and the "Then" OCO order is activated. If activated, the execution of either leg of the "Then" OCO order automatically cancels the other.

For step by step instructions on how to place orders on the trading platform, see our User Guide.

All of the above orders may be entered as Day Orders, entered today and good until end of NY business day (1700 ET). Or, clients may choose to enter a Good 'til Cancelled Order (GTC), which is valid for 90 days or until the order is executed or cancelled. Orders remain open until they are triggered or cancelled. If you close out a position manually, you must cancel any order(s) relating to that position.

* Placing contingent orders may not necessarily limit your losses

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