LESSON 12. Transaction, profit, loss. Types of orders
The decision to buy or sell the currency pair depends on your expectations of the future price…
The decision to buy or sell the currency pair depends on
your expectations of the future price.
If you think that EUR/USD will rise, you buy the pair or, in
other words, open a long position on this pair.
If you think that the EUR/USD will fall, you sell the pair
or, as traders say, open a short position on this pair.
As some time passes and the price of EUR/USD changes, you
close the position and get the profit if the price changed in line with your
expectations.
If the price moved in the opposite way, you have a loss on
this transaction.
To perform these operations, you need to place orders – give
special commands to your broker in the trading terminal.
There are several different types of orders, the main are
market orders, pending orders, take profit orders and stop loss orders. Let’s
see what are their functions.
Market orders – buy and sell – are designed to open
positions at the current market price.
The position will be opened immediately after you place such
order.
Pending orders, on the other hand, allow you to choose entry
levels in advance. In this case, the trade will open automatically
once the price level that you have chosen is reached, and
you won’t need to be in front of the monitor when it happens.
If you think that the price of the currency pair will rise
and then reverse to the downside, place Sell Limit above the current price.
If you expect the currency pair to decline and then reverse
to the upside, place Buy Limit below the current price.
If you think that selling will intensify once the price
breaks a certain level on the downside, place Sell Stop below the current
price.
If you expect that buying will intensify once the price
breaks a certain level on the upside, place Buy Stop above the current price.
In order to close profitable positions, use an order type
called Take Profit.
In order to close unprofitable position use Stop Loss order.
For example, you enter a Stop order 50 pips away from your
entry point. As soon as the market moved 50 pips against you,
your stop order would automatically close you out of that
trade protecting you from losing more than 50 pips.
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