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1 Saxo Academy SaxoTraderGO Placing Forex Trade Orders Please note, these notes are transcripts of the videos on Saxo Academy and are designed to accompany the SaxoTraderGO video series.

2 Placing FX Trade Orders In this tutorial we ll show you how to make a typical FX trade using trade orders. I am interested in trading 500,000 USDCHF, I think this cross is going to rise today. So maybe I have been looking at the chart and have identified an area of interest let s say around If USDCHF falls again to this level, I want to get in and hope to gain from a raise up to a level or support at say So I am going to place a limit order to buy 500,000 US Dollars by selling Swiss Francs if the market price falls to If my entry order get executed, I want to add a limit order to close the position to take profit at I will also add a stop loss to limit my losses if the price does not rebound from but continues down 50 pips below. If you have an FX Trade Board with the FX Cross in it, select the cross. The Trade button on the Overview pane will open the Trade Ticket for the FX Cross.

3 If the FX Cross is not in your Trade Board, the Instrument Finder at the top of the platform makes it easy to find and select any by just entering a few letters of the instrument s name or symbol. USDCHF is now selected in the Overview Panel, and I can add it to my Trade Board from here if I want to, or I can just trade it by clicking the Trade button. USDCHF is selected in the Trade Ticket and the trade types available are available from the Trade Selector. In this example we are going to place an Order so we will select Limit Order from the Trade Selector which is the order to use if you are waiting for the market to fall to a level before you buy.

4 If we wanted to place a Spot trade on Live prices, we would select Trade. I could also select a Stop entry order if I wanted to enter if the market starts trending upwards. If you have multiple trading accounts, you first need to select the account you want to place the order on. I want to trade 500,000 so I will enter 500,000 for the amount. I will enter the entry price of for the Price. The Duration sets how long the order is valid for. By default this is G.T.C. or Good Till Cancelled and that means the order will never expire unless I cancel it manually. If my strategy doesn t execute before the end of the day, I want to cancel it so I will select Day Order. You can also select other timescales but Day Orders and Good Til Cancelled are the most commonly used. Now I am going to add the related Take Profit and Stop Loss orders I talked about by first clicking the Add Take Profit / Stop Loss link. (see next page)

5 First I will select Limit to add a Take Profit Limit Order. I want to place my order at a fixed price level so I will enter a Limit Price of And I add a stop loss to protect my position. A number of stop orders are available, triggered on the Bid or the Ask price if I want to eliminate spread effects on my strategy, and Trailing Stop orders which trail the market price and lock in profit and close the position if the market reverses. But I will use a Stop if Bid to trigger on the sell price.

6 I want to place my order at 50 pips below the entry so I will enter 50 in the pips field. Note that I can add related orders at a fixed price, a number of pips or a percentage distance away from the entry price. Click Apply to apply the related orders to the main order when I place it. Before I place the order, I might just want to uncollapse the info panel here by clicking Show more. What this shows me is the change in my available margin if I buy or sell this instrument and if I have sufficient margin to cover the trade, in which case the impact bar would be red. But this trade is well below my available margin so no problems there. So let s go ahead and make our trade. Now I have to confirm the orders are correct, I ll double check these. If I don t want to confirm orders and trades every time, I can change this under Trade Settings. The Trade Confirmation appears to confirm the orders. Note that I am seeing 3 orders because we placed the entry order, a take profit order and a stop loss order. I will just acknowledge that. -And now I can see my USDCHF order in the Open Orders list. -As you can see I have a limit order to buy 500,000 at I can also see my related limit order at and my stop order at (See next page)

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