Sounds convenient. Fewer apps, less moving money around.
Would you actually want that, or are there things you’d still keep separate?
What would you happily leave in one account — and what would you never put there?
Convenience, security, fees, whatever matters to you.
You place a limit order.
The chart hits your price.
You check the order… and it’s still sitting there.
That doesn’t necessarily mean something went wrong.
At the same price, earlier orders fill first.
If a lot of size is already waiting at your level, those orders are ahead of you.
The market can trade at your limit price and still not get far enough through the queue to fill yours.
A candle touching your level only means something traded there. It does not tell you how much.
If only a small amount traded at that price, it can fill orders ahead of you and never reach yours.
That’s why the order book matters more than just seeing a wick touch your level.
Also make sure you’re looking at the same market and trading pair. A price move on another exchange or a different market doesn’t mean there was enough matching volume to fill your order here.
The market can reach your price and only fill part of the size.
The rest stays open until more matching liquidity shows up — or until you cancel it.
Check the filled amount before assuming nothing happened.
Price can trade at your level for a moment, fill part of the queue, then move away.
Seeing the price touch once does not mean every order at that level gets filled.
A limit price means:
“Trade me at this price or better.”
It does not mean:
“Fill me the moment the chart touches this number.”
There still needs to be enough matching volume, and your place in the queue still matters.
Have you ever watched the chart hit your price, assumed you were filled, and then realized the order was still open?
A lot of people know the basic definition.
The part that actually causes confusion is this:
Why did one order fill immediately while the other just sat there?
Use a market order when getting the trade done matters more than the exact price.
A market order tries to fill immediately against the best available prices in the order book.
That makes sense when you want to get in or out quickly, or you don’t want an order sitting unfilled.
It doesn’t mean you’ll get one exact price.
If the order is large or the book is thin, different parts of the order can fill at different prices. In some cases, the remaining portion may not go through if the price moves too far.
Use a limit order when price matters more than speed.
You set the price you’re willing to buy or sell at.
If nothing matches that price, the order stays open and waits.
That’s useful when you don’t want to buy above a certain level, or sell below one, and you’re willing to wait.
The tradeoff is simple:
the order may never fill.
One thing that confuses people:
A limit order doesn’t always wait.
If you place a buy limit above the current market, or a sell limit below it, the order can fill immediately against the best available prices.
So “limit order” doesn’t automatically mean “sit in the order book.”
Simple way to think about it:
Market order: I want this trade done now.
Limit order: I want this trade done at this price or better.
Neither is always better.
It depends on what matters more for that trade:
speed or price control.
Have you ever watched the price hit your limit, but your order still didn’t fill?
That’s the next post.
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