Stop Loss To The Rescue
To avoid unnecessary losses on cryptocurrency trading, it is a very good idea to set a Stop-Limit order on the exchange you’re trading on. This post is a short guide on how to set up a Stop-Loss order using Binance Exchange.
In a bid to help traders cut short losses or trade even when they are practically offline, a few exchange site like Binance has set up something called “Stop-Limit order” which a lot of us call Stop-Loss. A lot of rookies in crypto trading settle for the basic and default mode which is the ordinary limit order, but there are times when you might not be online or be away for a number of days. The only trusted feature to implement in order not to get bashed by any dump is the Stop-Limit.
What is a Stop-Limit order
A Stop-Limit order let you create a certain order which will only trigger when a certain price is met. For example, if you have recently bought into a new cryptocurrency and it’s price goes up by 20% and you want to ‘lock in’ some profits you can set up a Stop-Limit order at 15% profit, which is 5% less than where it currently is at. If the price should then fall back down below the 15% profit threshold that you set, your Sell Limit Order will be placed on the Order book and trigger to avoid losing more of your profits. The 15% threshold that you created with the Stop-Limit order prevents you from that.
Similarly, if you just bought in and want to protect your investment, you may set a Stop Limit order just below your buy-in price so that if the price should fall you can mitigate the damage and keep your losses to a minimum.
Stop-Limit on Binance
On the Binance Exchange, you can find the option for the Stop Limit order on the Tab illustrated below. It will take you to the screen shown in the picture below:

There are three parameters that we need to enter:
- The ‘Stop’ price
- The ‘Limit’ price
- The amount of tokens we want to sell
For the Stop Price: Under Stop price we enter the price at which we want our Limit order to appear on the order book.
For the Limit Price: Under Limit price, we enter the price at which we actually want to sell our token.
For Amount: For amount, we simply enter how many tokens we wish to sell.

The Stop-limit order allows for a lot of flexibility. You can also use the same mechanism to buy. Perhaps you are waiting for a coin to break out of a channel. You could then identify at which price you consider it a buying opportunity and then set a buy price at the break-out level. Similarly, if your investment trends downward you can automatically react to it through the Stop Loss.
Especially with Bitcoin going up and down it is usually quite easy to recognize critical support levels. When the BTC value goes down, Stop-Limit orders let you sell when the support breaks and buy back in at a lower support at the same time.
PS: Very few exchange site as the Stop-Limit Order features so always check out the details of the exchange before you transfer your funds.
You can contact me for any issues faced with implementing Stop-Limit order.

