0.2 NVIDIA Trade Walkthrough: From Entry to Exit
A short position on NVDA in the Mochatrade terminal, from opening it to checking the order history.
About this lecture
What does a trade look like from opening a position to closing it? Follow an NVIDIA (NVDA) short-position demonstration in the Mochatrade terminal.
Pratham walks through the trading screen, opens a position using leverage and isolated margin, and follows it through to closing and checking the order history.
You'll see:
- Market and limit order controls
- Bid and ask prices, the spread, order book and depth
- Position size, entry price, mark price and liquidation price
- Margin, leverage, profit and loss (P&L), and funding fees
- Closing a position and reviewing the wallet and order history
Use this lesson as a first look at the full workflow. Later lessons explain the mechanics behind the controls and numbers you see here.
Educational demonstration only. Not investment advice or a recommendation to trade NVIDIA.
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Key takeaways
- A trade has four stages: open, watch, close, review. The order history is where you review.
- A market order takes the price on offer; a limit order waits for yours.
- Bid, ask and spread describe the market; entry price, mark price and liquidation price describe your position.
- Margin, leverage, P&L and funding fees are the numbers that keep moving while the position is open.
Terms in this lecture
- Brokerage accountA brokerage account is an account with a registered broker that records the securities you own while a custodian holds…
- Buying powerBuying power is the position value your free margin can open at the allowed leverage: ₹20,000 at 10x is ₹2,00,000. It…
- Cost of carryCost of carry is what it costs to hold a position over time: storage, insurance and interest, minus any income. It is…
- ExpectancyExpectancy is the average result per trade: win rate times average win minus loss rate times average loss, usually…
- Funding rateThe funding rate is the periodic payment between longs and shorts that keeps a perpetual near the real price: above…
- Isolated marginIsolated margin ties a fixed amount of margin to one position, so that position can only lose what you gave it and the…
- Last traded priceThe last traded price is the most recent trade on the venue's own book, the one the chart shows. You never trade at…
- Leverage in tradingLeverage is controlling a position bigger than the money you put up. At 5x, ₹10,000 of margin controls ₹50,000, so a…
- Limit orderA limit order buys or sells only at your price or better. You control the price, the market decides whether you trade…
- Liquidation / forced square-offLiquidation, or forced square-off, is the venue closing a leveraged position because the margin can no longer cover…
- Liquidation priceThe liquidation price is where the venue closes your leveraged position, computed from entry, leverage and margin…
- Long and short positionA long position profits when the price rises; a short position profits when it falls. On a contract on the price…
- Maker and taker feesA maker fee is charged when your order rests on the book and adds liquidity; a taker fee when it fills against a…
- Margin callA margin call is a broker's demand for more funds when your account falls below the required margin; ignore it and…
- Margin interestMargin interest is what a US broker charges, daily, on cash it lends you to buy shares. A perpetual contract has no…
- Margin tradingMargin trading is taking a position larger than your deposit, the margin. A US broker lends you cash at interest; on a…
- Mark priceThe mark price is the price a venue judges your position by, for unrealised profit and liquidation, built from the…
- Market orderA market order buys or sells immediately at the best price available. It always fills, but at the ask if you buy and…
- Notional valueNotional value is the full size of a position, price times quantity, whatever margin backs it: ₹50,000 of exposure on…
- Open interestOpen interest is the total size of all open positions in a contract, how much money is in the trade. Rising open…