Order Type

Perpetual contract trading offers six order types: Market, Limit, Post-Only, Plan, Trail, and TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price).

1. Limit Order

A limit order allows you to place an order at a specific price or a better price. However, limit orders are not guaranteed to execute, as they will only be filled when the market reaches your desired price. Buy limit orders will only execute at the limit price or lower, while sell limit orders will only execute at the limit price or higher.

Advanced Limit Order Conditions

Time-in-force options to specify the order's expiration:

Fill or Kill (FOK)

This order must be filled immediately in its entirety; otherwise, it will be canceled.

Good-Till-Canceled (GTC)

This order remains active until it is either filled or manually canceled.

Immediate or Cancel (IOC)

This order must be executed immediately at the limit price or a better price; otherwise, it will be canceled.

Execution Conditions

Post-Only

Ensures your order is posted to the order book without immediate matching, guaranteeing it will only be executed as a maker order.

Reduce-Only

Dynamically reduces or adjusts the contract quantity of the limit order to ensure your position is not inadvertently increased.

2. Market Order

A market order is a buy or sell order that is executed at the best available price in the market upon submission. The execution of a market order depends on available liquidity, meaning the order will be filled based on existing limit orders in the order book.

Key Characteristics

  • • Market orders are guaranteed to be executed
  • • You cannot specify a price - execution happens at best available market price
  • • You can only specify the contract type and order amount
  • • All time-in-force and execution conditions are preset for market orders
3. Plan Order

A plan order involves pre-setting trigger conditions, along with the delegated price and quantity. When the latest market price reaches the trigger condition, the system will place an order based on the pre-set delegated price and quantity.

Important Notes

1.Plan orders support both "Limit Order" and "Market Order" types. The order quantity and price must comply with existing trading restrictions.
2.Before the plan order is triggered, the assets corresponding to the order are not frozen. Once triggered, the corresponding assets will be frozen.
3.Plan orders may not always trigger due to price limits, account balance, delisting of trading pairs, network abnormalities, or system upgrades.
4.Triggered plan orders may not always be executed due to market conditions, especially during high volatility periods.

Triggered Limit Order

Functions like a regular limit order, placed at the user's pre-set delegated price. Execution depends entirely on market conditions at the time.

Triggered Market Order

Functions like a regular market order, executed at the current market price. Execution depends entirely on market conditions at the time.

4. Post-Only Order

A Post-Only order will not be immediately executed in the market. If the order would immediately match with an existing order, it will be canceled, ensuring the user always acts as the maker.

5. Trail Order

A trail order is a strategy that places a pre-set order into the market when the price experiences a significant pullback. When the contract market price meets the user-defined activation condition and pullback ratio, the strategy is triggered, and a limit order is placed at the user-specified delegated price.

Primary Use Cases

  • • Buy during a bottom rebound
  • • Sell during a pullback after a peak
6. TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price) Order

A TWAP order is an automated tool designed to optimize the average execution price and reduce market impact. It is particularly suitable for traders with large capital who seek steady position building/liquidation or wish to avoid timing risks.

Essentially, it breaks down a large total order into many smaller orders based on your specified time intervals and quantities, which are then submitted to the market in batches continuously for execution.

💡 Think of it as: A future-set, automatically executed "batch position building/liquidation" plan.

Configuration Parameters

Total Quantity

The total number of contracts (or coins) you ultimately wish to buy or sell.

Order Type

Usually "Limit Order" (specified price) or "Market Order" (executed at the current best market price).

Number of Splits / Quantity per Order

• You can specify how many splits the total order should be divided into (e.g., 20 splits), and the system will automatically calculate the quantity for each split.

• Alternatively, you can directly specify the quantity for each individual order (e.g., 2 contracts per order).

Time Interval

The duration between each order submission, such as every 30 seconds, every minute, or every 5 minutes.

Validity Period

The total execution duration of the TWAP strategy or until the total quantity is fully executed.

Order Type Selection Guide

For Immediate Execution

  • • Use Market Orders for guaranteed fills
  • • Consider slippage in volatile markets

For Price Control

  • • Use Limit Orders for specific prices
  • • Add Post-Only to ensure maker fees

For Large Orders

  • • Use TWAP Orders to minimize market impact
  • • Spread execution over time

For Conditional Trading

  • • Use Plan Orders for trigger-based execution
  • • Use Trail Orders for momentum strategies