Wednesday, 19 November 2014

CHAPTER 4C : Trading Fundamentals - Types of Order

Order Matching Criteria

Order matching process is a price/ time priority order matching mechanism, where priority is given to price and then time. Ex: Trader 'A' enters an order of buying 100 shares of ABC @ 100 at 09:30 AM and Trader 'B' enters an order of buying 100 shares of ABC @ 100.05 at 10:00 AM.

Here the order of Trader 'B' will get the priority of execution over Trader 'A', but if the price of both Traders would have been equal the time priority would have placed Trader 'A' on top.      

Types of Orders

Limit Order - An order (buy/sell) which clearly specifies the price at which the trader wishes to trade is known as Limit Order. DreamGains suggests "Buy Above / Sell Below" (Limit Order) strategies.
Market Order - An order where trader doesn't specifies the prices, and wishes to buy/ sell at the current prevailing market price, is known as Market Order.
SL Order - A Stop Loss Order is used where the trader wishes the order to enter the system when a certain price level occurs on the trading system. Stop loss as the name suggests, is to stop or restrict the losses in a trade to a particular price point. Ex: A trader has bought a share @ 100 and decided 97 as a price point where he will exit, thereby stopping the loss per share to Rs. 3/share.
Trigger Price - Every stop loss order needs to put in a trigger price, which specifies the price point where the order will enter the system and not before that.
Buy SL Order - A stock is trading @ 100, a trader wants to buy the share above 103, he will be putting a SL order where the Trigger Price is 103 and limit price could either be 103 or 103.10
Sell SL Order - A stock is trading @ 100 and the trader wants to sell the share below 97, he would put the trigger price as 97 and limit price at 97 or 96.95.
Bracket Order - Bracket orders are designed to help limit your loss and lock in a profit by "bracketing" an order with two opposite-side orders.
  • BUY Order is bracketed by a high-side sell limit order and a low-side sell stop order
  • SELL Order is bracketed by a high-side buy stop order and a low side buy limit order


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