Stop-loss order

A stop-loss order turns into a market order when the price reaches a trigger, to cap a loss. It is a request, not a guarantee: in a gap it fills wherever the book is, which the Monday open tests. On a leveraged position your real stop is the nearer of your stop and your liquidation price. Stop 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…
  • Liquidation priceThe liquidation price is where the venue closes your leveraged position, computed from entry, leverage and margin…
  • 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…
  • Trailing stop orderA trailing stop moves the stop trigger behind the price by a fixed amount or percent as a trade goes your way, and…
  • Partial fillA partial fill is when only part of a limit order executes because not enough size sat at your price; the rest keeps…
  • Liquidation / forced square-offLiquidation, or forced square-off, is the venue closing a leveraged position because the margin can no longer cover…

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