Forex Signals

Entry Limit Orders

An entry limit order is an order for a currency pair that is away from your broker’s bid/ask price. In other words, your limit order to buy is not your broker’s ask price, or your order to sell is not your broker’s bid price.

Your order does not compete with any other orders. Only your broker sees your order—no one else. So there is little point in trying to place an order inside the spread, where the transaction price—either a buy or a sell—is between the bid/ask price. Many trading platforms do not even allow such an order to be entered, but even if they did, the broker probably won’t complete the transaction unless the market moves enough in the direction of your order.

There are some forex brokers who are advertising a no dealing desk, where your order is shown to some banks that are in the broker’s network, and, in these cases, the trading platform does allow you to place an entry limit order inside the spread, but even this is not really effective, because only a few big banks see your order, and if it is a small order, they probably won’t have much interest. This is in contrast to an American stock exchange, where the best bid/ask prices from all participants is displayed in the system, allowing just about anybody to see those stock prices.

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