Trading
Updated 7 October 2026, 5 min readEvery order in eTrader starts in one of two places: the New Order ticket, or the chart itself. The ticket is the full form. The chart is faster once you know it. Both send the same order to your Broker's Server, and both show you the margin the order needs before you commit to it.
Open the ticket
Press New Order in the toolbar, or choose an instrument in Market Watch and pick New Order from its menu. On the phone, tap the instrument and then the Trade button. The ticket opens on the instrument you had selected.
In the web terminal, the Symbol field at the top holds every symbol the Server offers, not only the ones in Market Watch. Click it and a search box opens over the list, grouped by category:
- Search by symbol or by name.
- A sleep icon marks a closed market. A tick marks the symbol you are on.
- Type a letter on the field to open the search with that letter in it.
- Arrow keys move through the list. Enter picks.
The ticket has two modes, side by side at the top:
- Market Execution fills at the current price the moment you press Buy or Sell.
- Pending Order waits on the Server until the market reaches the price you set.
Under the mode you set the volume in lots. The ticket reads the instrument's minimum lot and its step from the Broker, so a volume the Broker cannot fill is refused before it is sent.
A market order
Type the lots, add a stop loss and a take profit if you want them, and press Buy or Sell. The two buttons carry the live ask and bid so you can see the spread you are paying. The order is filled at the price the Server has when it arrives, which in a fast market can differ slightly from the one you saw.
Before you press either button, look at the two lines under the Sell and Buy buttons. Required Margin is what this order locks up. Free Margin After is what you will have left to hold it and to open anything else. If the second number is small or negative, reduce the lots. A position that leaves you with no free margin is the first one to be closed when the market moves against you.
A pending order
Switch the ticket to Pending Order and choose the type:
| Type | Sits | Use it when |
|---|---|---|
| Buy Limit | below the market | you want to buy a dip |
| Sell Limit | above the market | you want to sell a rally |
| Buy Stop | above the market | you want to buy a breakout |
| Sell Stop | below the market | you want to sell a breakdown |
Type the price, the lots, and any stop loss and take profit, then press PLACE. The button shows your order price under the word. It is red for Sell Limit and Sell Stop, green for Buy Limit and Buy Stop. The order appears in the Pending Orders list and as a line on the chart. It stays on the Server until it fills or you cancel it, so the terminal does not have to stay open.
To change a pending order later, open it from the list or double click its line and choose Modify Order. To remove it, Cancel Order. To remove every pending order at once, press Cancel All Pending on the Pending Orders heading in the web terminal.
Straight on the chart
The chart toolbar has a pending order tool and a price alert tool. Pick the pending order tool, click the chart at the price you want, and a ticket opens with that price already filled in. Once the order exists, its line is yours to drag. Drag it to a new price and the order is modified on the Server when you let go.
The type follows the price. Drag a buy limit above the market and it becomes a buy stop. Drag a sell stop above the market and it becomes a sell limit. You never have to cancel and re-enter an order because you changed your mind about the level.
The same is true of an open position. Its entry, its stop loss and its take profit are drawn as lines, and each one drags. Move the stop loss line and the new stop is sent the moment you release it. The label on the line shows the distance in pips and what that distance is worth in your account currency, so you can set a stop by the money at risk rather than by guessing the pips.
Stop loss and take profit
You can add them on the ticket when you open the order, or afterwards from Edit Position. Either way they are stored on the Server with the position and close it without the terminal's help.
Two shortcuts are worth learning:
- Set SL to Entry Price moves the stop loss to the price you opened at, so the trade can no longer lose. It is in Edit Position.
- Trailing Distance makes the stop follow the price at a fixed distance, moving only in your favour. Set it as a price distance on the position, for example 0.00050 on EURUSD. See trailing stops.
A stop loss or take profit on the wrong side of the price is refused: on a buy the stop goes below and the target above, on a sell the other way round. The ticket tells you which level is wrong.
Closing
From the Positions list or the position's line on the chart:
- Close Position closes all of it at the market.
- Partial Close asks for a volume and closes only that much.
- Close All Trades flattens the whole account in one confirmation. In the web terminal it is on the Open Positions heading; in the phone apps it is in the bulk close menu next to Open Positions. See closing positions.
Every close shows in History with its open and close price, its swap and commission if the Broker charges them, and its profit. In the web terminal you can export any date range as a CSV file from the History tab.
One-click trading
The SELL and BUY buttons on the chart send a market order at once, with no confirmation. The first time you press one, eTrader asks you to enable one-click trading. Enable turns it on for that browser or phone. Cancel leaves it off, and the New Order ticket still works. A stray tap with it on is a real order.