The interface of Trading212 seems different to all the training videos on youtube and even the layout and button seem to be different. I cant find any videos in the current format to explain the use of Stop, Limit and Stop limit functions. Can some one please provide assistance in explaining how to…

@awaisjd Have you read these pages? They may help. [image] Stop Orders A Stop Order is an order to buy or sell a stock once it meets the stop price. When the stock hits your stop price, the Stop Order becomes a Market Order. It then executes the order at the best pric... …

Thanks Richard. I do understand the concept of these functions i just was wondering how about to do it in the trading platform. It seems a bit confusing to me, so was hoping for a video instruction of sort.

[image] awaisjd: was hoping for a video instruction of sort You can support a new video on this idea and maybe it can get done.

The app and desktop have descriptions when you click into the sections. Basically a Market and Stop which will just try and get the best price. A limit or a Stop limit allows you to specify the max or min price per share you are willing to do the deal at depending on buy/sell. The limit can save …

Hey Phil, Can you explain to me what I have done wrong with the above screenshot? as you can see my stop limit is set to 1.89 and 2.00, but the price has dropped to 1.86. Have I got them the wrong way round or something? [image]

You are saying you don’t want to sell for less than 2.00. You should have put the limit at less than 1.89. If you put stop at 1.89 and limit at 1.85, you would create a sell when the price drops to 1.89, but be protected against selling at a very low price, were it to jump down to below 1.85.

Hey Richard, thanks for the reply. Just to confirm I have understood you correctly: If I had put the limit at 1.89, it would have sold, however, if the price had dropped too much, i.e. to 1.85, it would not have sold and I would have kept my shares? And: if this is correct, what is the function to…

You can create both limit sell at 3 and stop sell at 1.

Okay, so when I do that, the second I try to set up shows this: I set up the high sell first using the limit tab. [image]

Sorry about that. It seems you cannot have both orders pending at the same time. I tried it in my account and saw the same. Perhaps just set some alerts and be ready to do manual trades. I wonder if anyone has a better idea.

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