Market Orders
description: >- Market orders execute instantly against the best available price ticks in the order book.
Market Orders
Market Long
A market‐order buy that immediately opens a position at the best available price // use when you want instant execution.
- Market tab: Executes immediately at the best available price.
- Buy / Long (green): Opens a bullish position (you profit if price rises).
- Price 45.86: The current mark price of the contract.
- ↻ Last price button: Refreshes the price field to the latest mark.
- 50 vUSD: Collateral committed (out of your 100 vUSD balance).
- Half / All shortcuts: Fill the input with 50% or 100% of available collateral.
- Slider (0–100%) with 25 / 50 / 75% ticks: Adjusts the fraction of collateral deployed.
- Value 5,000 vUSD: Notional size (= Price × Quantity).
- Cost 50 vUSD: Collateral locked to support the position.
- Buy / Long button: Submits the market buy order.
Market Short
A market‐order sell that immediately opens a bearish position at the best available price // use when you want to short the asset right away.
- Market + Sell / Short (red): Immediate execution of a bearish bet (you profit if price falls).
- Price 45.86: Entry price field set to the mark price you’ll sell at.
- Collateral, slider, Value/Cost function identically to Market Long.
- Sell / Short button submits the market sell order.
