best type of orders?

[schizo]

That's just not true. Slow and fast markets are very different, when you want to enter a popular level then you want to send MKT and choose routing carefully (differences are significant), putting a limit means you will never get anything. Personally I prefer algo orders that are split into smaller parts. Also, typically stop orders are just market orders, nothing else.

Even when the market is moving fast, you need only enter LIMIT just a tick or two above your desired entry. For example, if your entry was for 3120, then you enter LIMIT for 3120.25 or 3120.50. Here I'm speaking of equity futures, but this would work for stocks as well. BTW do that for STOP LIMIT as well.

Edit: I suppose what I'm really saying is that you should know when and where to get in and out BEFOREHAND and not have to chase the market.

 

[maxinger]

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That;
+Fed days seem to lag more. Including focus on a few+ many times you can guess, the way its going because of trends.[ Faster countertrends + early morning + last half hour tend to be wilder/reversals , for sure.
Nice liquid/ nice volume stuff helps. NOT sure this would apply to options. But this is a trading/investing rule of IBD + mine .Never quibble over a quarter + miss the move.

right mister. never quibble over a quarter and miss a move.


lately, something very wrong with either
internet service provider,
my charting software or
my broker trading platform.
There have been quite a few cases of bad time lag
even though market was not that super hot,
and I missed quite a few good opportunities or got very bad fill.

 

[d08]

Even when the market is moving fast, you need only enter LIMIT just a tick or two above your desired entry. For example, if your entry was for 3120, then you enter LIMIT for 3120.25 or 3120.50. Here I'm speaking of equity futures, but this would work for stocks as well. BTW do that for STOP LIMIT as well.

That might be true for ES or some large futures contract but definitely not for equities or ETFs. I traded VXX, which is quite liquid and the price jumped quite a bit. There might have been a 100-200 share fill at a price but you as the retail rarely were the one to get it. Estimating liquidity and determining entry limits is not that straightforward at all.

 

[Arnie]

The best trade is a partial fill

 

[murray t turtle]

right mister. never quibble over a quarter and miss a move.


lately, something very wrong with either
internet service provider,
my charting software or
my broker trading platform.
There have been quite a few cases of bad time lag
even though market was not that super hot,
and I missed quite a few good opportunities or got very bad fill.

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Great general rule.
Even a fairly good broker platform [swing/ position/trade/investing] like IBKR; has been known to lag volume- but that was a consistant lag LOL.
I did miss a move in a good tech trending, 222K +wide bid/ask/volume ETF today ;
but that thing prints such low volume intra-day; i'm used to QQQ stuff.............