Limit Orders
description: >- Limit orders let you specify a target price tick and wait for the market to reach it.
Limit Orders
Limit Long
A resting buy order that only fills at or below your specified price. Use when you want to enter a long position only if the market dips to your target.
- Limit tab: Posts a resting order that executes only at your trigger price.
- Buy / Long (green): Places a limit‐buy.
- Execute when price is 45.87: Your chosen limit price.
- Last price button refreshes to current mark.
- Collateral, slider, Value/Cost work as in Market, but the order only fills at ≤ 45.87.
- Buy / Long button places the limit order.
Limit Short
A resting sell order that only fills at or above your specified price. Use when you want to open a short position only if the market rallies to your trigger.
- Limit + Sell / Short (red): Posts a resting ask at your trigger price.
- Execute when price is 45.87: Your chosen limit‐sell price.
- Collateral, slider, Value/Cost mirror the Limit Long setup.
- Sell / Short button places the limit‐sell order.
