The Most Useful Instruments on The Crypto Market

Valeriya Kolomiychenko
exmo-official
Published in
6 min readAug 28, 2019

The detailed Trading Orders overview.
Bonus case: How to get the best from Margin Trading

Successful Trading is a synergy of knowledge, understanding when to trade, and optimizing the process with additional “trader’s helpers”.

Speaking of crypto trading, the first associations are “money”, “risks” coins”, “profit”, “orders”, and the “market trends”.

The first questions arise:
1. What are the Trading Orders and how to figure out which one is suitable right now?

2. Technical Analysis Basics, and whether is it necessary.

What are the Trading Orders and how to figure out which one is suitable right now?

The cryptocurrency market is very unstable, which causes both tremendous pros and cons. Understanding when to trade is only part of the process — successful traders need to know how to trade, and which order is suitable for a particular situation. The guide below will help you to understand the different types of orders.

Let’s figure out the basic work principles and existing types of exchange orders:

Order is an instruction to enter or exit a position.

The simplest Buy & Sell orders are available on every crypto-platform, but traders who use only the buy and sell options may suffer losses due to the price slippage or trading without a protective Stop-Loss function.

The Market is the main type of order — a broker makes a purchase or sales at the best currently available price. The order includes the “buy” and “sell” buttons, which makes its use easy and fast. The main advantage of a market order is a guaranteed transaction. A market order is the most reliable option if needed to enter or exit a position.

Slippage is the difference between the expected price and the price in the final transaction. At high market rates, slippage can be significant and cause both successful or a failure transaction. Certain types of orders allow traders to indicate the exact prices for trading, thereby minimizing the risks associated with slippage.

Limit Order is an instruction to Buy (or Sell) at a certain, more favorable price. The Buy Limit order can be executed only at a specified maximum price or lower.; Sell Limit will be executed at a specified maximum price or higher. Unlike a Market one, where you can simply click the “Buy” button allowing the market to “choose” a price, Limit Order works via specifying the desired price.

Stop Order is an ideal tool for placing a market or limit order when the specified price is reached, it is very convenient to use it when you need help to understand market trends before entering a position. The Buy/Sell Stop Order becomes active only after the specified price level has been reached. Stop orders work in the opposite direction from the Limit one.

Stop Loss and Take Profit are probably the most important words and instruments in every trader’s life. Of course, you have probably heard about these vital for traders tools, but let’s now examine them closer:

Stop Loss is a protective order that limits trade losses by drawing a border beyond which the trader will not risk money. Such orders automatically close losing trades at predetermined levels. There are 2 main types of transactions: Long Term — with a profit from market growth, and Short Term with a profit from the market decline.

Short positions are an important part of active trading, as it allows traders to take advantage of both rising and falling markets. Unlike long positions where losses are limited, short one has unlimited potential for losses. Trading with a Stop-Loss allows taking this risk under control.

Bonus usability: Benefits while using with Margin Trading

Margin Trading is a practice of using borrowed funds when the trader’s own money being used as collateral. Margin Trading gives users an ability to trade with leverage, open long and short positions, allowing them to profit from the market, whether the trend is bullish or bearish, BUT such trading operations are high-risk, so applying Stop Orders can seriously save your money, do not forget about the crypto market’s volatility.

One-day Order: the daily order automatically expires at the end of the exchange session (if it has not been used). Many platforms use this option as a bonus order. The duration “Day +” is valid until the end of the extended trading session.

Fill Or Kill (FOK) — is an order with a condition, it must be executed immediately in full, or it will be canceled. Partial execution is not possible in this case.

As in the case of FOK, the All Or None (AON) order will be canceled if it is impossible to use it fully by the end of the trading session. In the case of this order, partial execution is unacceptable.

Immediate Or Cancel Order (IOC) implies an immediate execution of an order, partial or complete; otherwise, the order (or its unfulfilled components) is canceled.

The Good Til Date/Time (GTD) order remains active until the specified date if it has not been executed or canceled.

The Good Til Canceled (GTC) order is valid until the transaction is completed or the order is canceled.

Technical Analysis Basics, and whether is it necessary

Please, notice that I do not impose my views on anyone, and I do not insist on their authority, the main idea of this article — is to share the experience I have. All the conclusions and decisions about your personal investments should be made according to your OWN decisions. The analysis is a very important process of anything as for your funds. Do your own researches and use ready crypto-analytics like an additional opinion, for those who do not want to make decisions on their own, hundreds of chats and crypto signal pools are available on the market, both paid and free. The choice is always up to you: think by yourself or lean on someone’s advice. EXMO Cryptocurrency Platform offers an every week free analytics (EN, RU) on their TradingView profile page, and also publishes it in the News section of the exchange.

Everything about Bulls, Bears, Market Trends and the Crypto analysis basics outlined in my previous article:

I will take EXMO platform — the largest in Eastern Europe as an example.
As the exchanges TOP-management noted -

It’s important to study and analyze the current market situation:

“EXMO team is working to see the result. Our goal is EXMO’s independence and being up-to-date as a TOP-crypto platform; Therefore, over the past months, we have been actively working on the exchange’s upgrade. After the Pre-Sale and the I Public Round of EXMO Coin IEO, we decided to tie the next 2 rounds to the improvement of the platform’s technical part. So, the next stages of sales will take place after the Stop Orders and IOS/Android App implementation. Also, in the nearest future Margin Loans and other important perks for our users would be already available. We understand the importance of these updates and really value our users and try to provide them with the greatest convenience while working with EXMO.”

We remind you of the already realized ЕХМО improvements:

  • The NEW “Тrading” page with 3 types of the grid;
  • IEO Support;
  • Redesigned Main Page;
  • EXMO Coin with benefits for tokenholders*;
  • Personal/Name EX-Codes;
  • Nigth Mode;

and more.

The more detailed overview is here

Please, share your experience! I would be grateful if you could answer 3 simple questions in comments:

  • How long are you with crypto?
  • What is the most used order for you?
  • Have you ever tried crypto Margin Loans/Margin Trading? Was it profitable?

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Valeriya Kolomiychenko
exmo-official

PR representative, Content creator, IT-girl blogger, Blockchain & Crypto enthusiast