Perpetual Trading
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Tutorial Contents:
Market Selection: Switch markets.
Market Info Bar: Information about the selected market.
Chart Styles: Choose your favourite chart style
Price Chart, Market Depth, Funding: Use the toggle to change views.
Orderbook & Trades: View the open order and executed trades for the market.
Tables: Your positions, balances, orders, and history.
The trading console is where you place trade orders.
Leverage Slider: Adjust leverage from 1x to 50x.
Order Type: Decide the order type for your trade: Market/Limit/Stop Limit/Stop Market/Post Only
Input Token Selector: Use various tokens as collateral to open positions.
Order Details: The amount of the asset you want to buy / sell
Slider & Shortcuts: Select a % of your max order size.
Reduce Only Checkbox: Tick this if you want to strickly reduce your open position
TP & SL Checkbox: Tick this if you want to set a corresponding TP / SL.
Advanced Drop-Down: Advance order settings depending on your order type.
Time in force Drop-Down: Choose your Time In Force option (IOC, FOK)
Execution Button: Click this to place the order: Buy / Long or Sell / Short
Switch: Switch flexible between acount
One Click Trading: Enable one click trading
Summary: Trade details and account impact.
Connect your wallet
Navigate to the Perpetual Trading page
Choose the Market you want to open a Leveraged position on
Set your Leverage
Choose the Order type you want to use: Market/Limit/Stop Limit/Stop Market/Post Only:
Market: Market order is immediately matched to the best available market price
Limit: The trade will fill at the specific price or better. Limit orders are not guaranteed to execute.
Stop Limit: Orders become limit orders when a specified stop price is reached. Specify a trigger price to activate the order.
Stop Market: Orders become market orders when a specified price is reached. Specify a trigger price to activate the order
Post Only: Post Only orders will be added to the order book and not execute with a pre-existing order.
Choose the token you want to pay in.
Enter the order details:
Amount of assets to buy.
Estimated total quote value.
Percentage of your max order.
Optional: Check the Reduce Only box if you want to
Optional: Check the TP / SL box if you want to add a Take Profit or Stop Loss order (info below).
Optional: use the advanced drop-down for more order settings
Choose Time in force type:
IOC (Immediate Or Cancel): Order will execute all or partial immediately and cancel any unfilled portion of the order.
FOK (Fill Or Kill): Order must be filled immediately in its entirety or not executed at all.
Review the summary below the submit button.
Click the Buy / Long or Sell / Short submit button to place trade.
If successful, you should receive an order placed notification.
You do not need to sign to place orders if you have enabled 1-Click Trading.
You can view Perp Positions via:
The “Positions” table underneath the chart on the trading pages.
The “Positions” table on the portfolio Accounts Page.
There are 2 ways to add a TP / SL to a position:
Check the TP / SL box of the order detail
Enter your take profit and / or stop loss order details.
Decide if you want to use Market Price or Last Price.
Market Price: The order will trigger if Market price hits the trigger price.
Last Price: The order will trigger if last traded price hits the trigger price.
Go to the the “Positions” table underneath the chart on the trading pages. Under the TP / SL column click on the [Add] button.
A pop-up will open.
Click on [Take Profit] and / or [Stop Loss]
Enter your take profit and / or stop loss order details.
The stop price.
The estimated gain or loss %.
Decide if you want to use Market Price or Last Price.
Market Price: The order will trigger if Market price hits the trigger price.
Last Price: The order will trigger if last traded price hits the trigger price.
Click on [Confirm]
If successful, you should receive an order placed notification.
Go to the the “Positions” table underneath the chart on the trading pages
Under the TP / SL column click the [Detail] button on your TP / SL.
Click the [Cancel] button.
Cancel All: If you wish to quickly cancel all your TP/SL you can do so by clicking the [Cancel All] button in the bottom-right of the positions table, which will fully cancel all of your positions.
Go to the the “Positions” table underneath the chart on the trading pages
Click on the [Close] button to the right.
A pop-up will open. You can elect the amount you wish to close.
Click [Confirm].
Alternatively, you can use the trading console to sell or buy the perp. For example, if you are long 100 BTC-PERP, you can close 50% of your position by selling/shorting 50 BTC-PERP.
Close All: If you wish to quickly close all your positions you can do so by clicking the [Close All] button in the top-right of the positions table, which will fully close all of your positions.
