Order Types

What is Limit Order?

Limit Order is an option for a buy/sell trade that enables users to set the price per coin by themselves. Users can enter the amount of coin/fiat to spend from the account balance or the amount of coin/fiat they wish to acquire in the toolbox as shown in the picture.

After submission, the order will be open and queued in the order book for order matching.

• For a limit buy order, the order will be matched when the market price equals the set limit price or lower.
• For a limit sell order, the order will be matched when the market price equals the set limit price or higher.

For example, ETH was worth about 33,000 baht in the Bitkub market at that time. Mr. A wanted to buy ETH at a lower price and expected that the coin's price would drop to 30,000 baht. He created a limit order of 30,000 baht / ETH and 30,000 baht spend. Later, the price of ETH dropped to 30,000 or lower. The system then would match the sell order in the market to Mr. A’s limit buy order immediately.

After Mr. A. received 1 ETH for 30,000 baht, he thought that the price of ETH would go up and wanted to sell it to make a profit. Therefore, he created a limit order to sell 1 ETH coin at 34,000 baht/coin. A few days later, the price of ETH rose to 34,000 baht and more. The system then started matching Mr. A’s limit sell order immediately.

From time to time, you may find that your order has more than one match because the buy /sell volume in the market at the set price is insufficient to meet your order quantity. You can check the waiting list of your buy/sell orders at "MY OPEN ORDERS"

What is Market Order?

Market Order is an option for a buy/sell trade that enables users to auto-choose the best available price rate from the market while users only have to enter their spending amount of coin/fiat from the user's balance.

After submission, the system will automatically choose the best available buy/sell rate from the order book to match your order. This process is an instant trade unless there is no resting order from the order book.

For example, Mr. B wanted to sell ETH immediately without going through the market price. At that time, the market price of ETH was 40,000 baht/coin. Mr. B, therefore, created a market order to sell 1 ETH. The system will immediately sell his ETH coin at a price of 40,000 baht.

From time to time, you may find that your order has more than one match because the buy /sell volume in the market at the set price is insufficient to meet your order quantity.

What is Stop-Limit Order?

Stop Limit Order allows you to pre-set the price condition. Once the price condition is met, the system will generate a buy/sell order automatically. 

There are 2 types of stop-limit orders: Stop-Limit Buy and Stop-Limit Sell.

Stop-Limit Buy is a pending buy order that will be triggered when the market price meets the price condition set.

- Stop is a price condition

- Limit is the price of the buy order you want the system to create after the price condition is met.

For example, Tether (USDT) current price is 33 baht. A trader wants to buy USDT at a lower price, so he creates a stop-limit buy by setting the stop at 32.5 baht and setting the limit at 32 baht. When the USDT price drops to 32.5 baht, the system will create an order to buy USDT at a price of 32 baht immediately.

Stop-Limit Sell is a pending sell order that will be triggered when the market price meets the price condition set.

- Stop is a price condition

- Limit is the price of the sell order you want the system to create after the price condition is met.

For example, the current price of Ethereum (ETH) is 30,000 baht. A trader thinks the market is going to be in a downtrend and the price of ETH could fall a lot. Hence, he creates a stop-limit sell by setting the stop at 28,000 baht and the limit at 25,000 baht. When the price of ETH drops to 28,000 baht, the system will immediately create an order to sell ETH at 25,000 baht. After that, the price of ETH continues to drop to 20,000 baht. With a stop-limit sell, he is able to cut loss at 25,000 baht

Currently, stop-limit orders are only available for BTC, ETH, and USDT on the Bitkub exchange.

Remark: 

• Normally, the system will choose to match orders from the order book according to this priority: (1) best price and (2) the order sent earliest
• The example above is just to help you understand better. The company reserves the right to disclaim any responsibility in the event that you follow the example mentioned and experience losses due to the market mechanism.

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