Order Entry: prepare and review a ticket

Use the standalone Limit, Market and Conditional ticket, understand its fields, and inspect a confirmation.

Order Entry is the standalone ticket opened from PANELS → Order Entry. Choose the instrument in its panel header before entering an order. Trading uses that instrument’s selected connection; there is no independent account dropdown in this ticket. The screenshots show an illustrative simulated account and draft only; the final order was not submitted.

Filled Limit ticket with the instrument, Buy side, quantity, limit price and Preview Order control visible

Prepare a limit order

Choose Limit at the top, then BUY or SELL. A buy limit specifies the highest acceptable purchase price; a sell limit specifies the lowest acceptable sale price. Execution depends on the available market.
Enter QTY in the instrument’s native order unit and PRICE on its valid tick increment. Do not interpret a derivative quantity as the same number of coins without checking contract metadata in Symbol Info. The example is a quantity of 2 at 84,700.
Click the Advanced row directly below quantity and price. Review validity, flags and protection before collapsing it again. Hidden fields retain their saved settings.
Keep Preview Order checked. Click the wide CONFIRM button below it to open the review dialog; with Preview Order disabled, this button submits immediately.

Choose the order type

Tab	Behavior
Limit	Uses the entered price and quantity. A limit may rest, partially fill or fill immediately when it crosses available liquidity.
Market	Replaces PRICE with At market. The requested quantity executes subject to liquidity and provider rules; no fixed execution price is promised.
Conditional	Arms exactly one above/below trigger and then places a limit order using PRICE. Use the trading sidebar for a dedicated stop-market ticket.

Advanced fields

Expanded Advanced section showing validity, trigger fields, protection and flags

Tab	Behavior
Time In Force	Only provider-supported choices appear. GTC remains working until cancelled; DAY follows the provider’s trading-day rule; IOC cancels an unfilled remainder; FOK requires the whole quantity immediately or no fill.
Trigger Execution	Internal (this terminal) monitors a local trigger while the terminal remains running. Exchange sends a provider-held trigger when supported. These fields affect Conditional orders.
Trigger Price Source	For supported exchange triggers, choose last, mark or index price. A local trigger uses the last trade.
Above / Below	Choose one positive trigger price and its own Buy/Sell side. Set the unused field to zero. Filling both is invalid and does not create a bracket or OCO pair.
Stop Loss / Take Profit	Absolute protection prices, available only where the provider and market support attachments. Reduce-only orders cannot add new entry protection.
Post only	Requests maker-only behavior for a supported limit order; it may be rejected if it would take liquidity. It does not force an otherwise invalid price to be accepted.
Reduce only	Requests a reduction of an existing position rather than increasing exposure. Provider and position rules still apply.

Cost is a notional estimate when the necessary price and contract metadata are available; Fee uses the available taker-fee metadata. Neither is a final fill statement. A dash means the estimate is unavailable, as in this screenshot, not zero cost or zero fee. Market tickets also leave these estimates blank.

Configure a conditional limit

Choose Conditional, open Advanced, and set QTY.
For the illustrated upward trigger, enter 85,000 in “price rises above” and select Buy beside it. Leave the below field at 0.
Set the ordinary PRICE field to 85,010. The trigger threshold and limit price serve different purposes: one activates the order, the other limits its purchase price. Reaching the trigger does not guarantee a fill.
Choose local or supported exchange execution and the applicable trigger source. Review the draft with Preview Order. A local trigger restored after a restart needs explicit rearming; check Orders: quantities, status and cancellation and Trading sidebar: sizing, protection and strategies.

Conditional ticket with an above trigger at 85000 and resulting limit price 85010

Read the confirmation and follow the result

Order confirmation with live quote context, draft quantity and price, Cancel and final Confirm buttons

The dialog shows current quote context and the side, quantity, instrument and price of the prepared order. It does not repeat every advanced field, so review those on the ticket before opening it. Cancel closes the review without placing the order; the dialog’s final CONFIRM sends the prepared request.

After an actual submission, inspect Orders: quantities, status and cancellation for working quantity and status, Trade History: executions and fees for executions, and Positions: inspect and close an open holding for the resulting holdings. An accepted request is not the same as a fill, and a partially filled order can still have a cancellable remainder.

The bell at the right of the order-type tabs opens a price-alert editor; an alert is separate from a Conditional order. Alerts explains notifications. For quantity conversions, stop-market, brackets, execution strategies and position-management buttons, see Trading sidebar: sizing, protection and strategies. Practice only on a supported instrument in Paper trading: practice a cash-account workflow.