Placing Trades
Buy and sell with confidence — orders, smart positions, take-profit and stop-loss explained in plain words.
36 articles
Your First Trade 3
Order Types 7
A quick tour of the trading widget order form
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How do I place a market, limit, or stop order in Altrady?
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How do OCO and trailing stop orders work in Altrady?
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How do I place ladder orders in Altrady?
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What do Post Only and Time in Force do?
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How do I create and use order presets in Altrady?
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Available Balance vs your Assets: what you can trade with
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Smart Orders 11
How do I set up a smart position with take profit and stop loss?
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How do I create a DCA position?
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Trailing take profit on a smart order
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Stop loss and protection modes on a smart order
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Stop loss cool-down and Emergency SL on a smart order
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Smart order stop loss and protections: an overview
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Trailing stop loss (Follow Price) on a smart order
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Smart order timing: Start position at, expiry, and auto-close
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Risk controls: sizing your stop loss by account risk
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How to Set or Adjust Take Profit and Stop Loss on an Open Position
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How to Edit or Scale Into an Open Position (Increase Size / DCA)
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Positions 12
Understanding your position numbers: break-even, average entry, invested, and net PnL
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Converting between smart and manual positions
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Creating a position from existing orders
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Viewing your open positions and orders
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Viewing your closed positions and orders
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What do the position controls do?
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How to share a trade or position
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An overview of positions in Altrady
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How do spot short positions work in Altrady?
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How do I close, exit, or cancel a position?
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Managing an open position: all the guides
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Market order price protection: why a market order can leave a remainder
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