Order Types & How to Use Them
Market, limit, stop — the small choices at the order window that change your outcome.
Lessons
- Market Orders vs Limit OrdersTake any price right now, or name your price and wait. The first trade-off every trader makes.
- Stop-Loss OrdersThe order that gets you out before a small loss becomes a portfolio-wrecking one.
- Stop-Loss Market vs Stop-Loss LimitA subtle difference that decides whether your stop actually fills in a fast-moving market.
- Order Validity: Day, IOC & GTTHow long an order stays alive, and how to set orders that wait for weeks.
- Bracket & Cover OrdersOrders that bundle your entry, target, and stop into one — automating discipline.
- After-Market Orders (AMO)Placing orders when the market is closed, and what really happens to them at the open.