What Is a Conditional (Trigger) Order and How Automation Uses It
You set up a strategy that should only act when the market reaches a specific level — buy if price breaks above resistance, or exit if it falls through support....
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Mark Price vs Last Price: What It Means for Automated Futures Orders
If you automate futures trading, you have probably noticed something confusing: your chart shows one price, but your position's liquidation level and profit-and...
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What Is an OCO Order and How Automated Traders Use It
You set a take-profit and a stop-loss on the same position, walk away, and expect the exchange to close the trade at whichever level hits first. On most exchan...
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Bid-Ask Spread Explained: How It Affects Automated Order Fills
Your strategy fires a buy signal, the order goes in, and it fills a few ticks above the price you saw on the chart. Nothing broke. That gap is the bid-ask sprea...
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Order Rounding and Step Size: Why Automated Trades Get Rejected
You automate a strategy, the signal fires, and the order comes back rejected. No fill, no position, just an error code to decode after the moment has passed. Mo...
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Exchange Minimum Order Sizes Explained for Automated Trading
Your TradingView alert fires, the webhook reaches your exchange, and then nothing happens. The order comes back rejected. One of the most common reasons is the...
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WebSocket vs REST APIs on Crypto Exchanges: What's the Difference
If you are wiring a strategy up to an exchange, one of the first technical forks you hit is WebSocket vs REST APIs on a crypto exchange. Both let your code talk...
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How to Handle Partial Fills in Automated Crypto Orders
You send an order to buy one Bitcoin, and the exchange fills 0.4 of it. The rest sits open, or gets cancelled, or fills seconds later at a worse price. If your...
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Iceberg Orders Explained: How Large Orders Hide in the Order Book
Watch a crypto order book long enough and you will see something odd. A price level shows only a modest amount of size, you send orders into it, and yet the le...
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