Mastering Quick Trading: Streamlined Order Execution Tools

Quick trading capabilities represent a significant advancement in how traders manage their positions during volatile market conditions. These streamlined tools enable market participants to execute complex trading strategies with minimal clicks, directly from their chart interface. Whether you’re looking to open positions rapidly, close them efficiently, or reverse direction entirely, understanding these functions is essential for modern trading.

Understanding the Quick Trading Toolkit

The platform offers five distinct quick trading functions designed to accelerate your order placement process. Each serves a specific purpose in your trading workflow, from initial position entry to sophisticated directional reversals. These tools are accessible through different interfaces depending on your platform choice—desktop or mobile app—allowing seamless execution regardless of where you trade.

Rapid Position Opening with Market and Limit Orders

Market Orders for Immediate Entry

Once you’ve established your desired contract quantity, the market order feature lets you initiate a buy or sell position instantly. Located in the upper right corner of your trading chart, this function executes at the best available price currently displayed in the order book, though the actual fill price may vary slightly from the quoted entry price shown on screen.

When you activate the buy or sell option through this quick method, the system opens a new position or adds to an existing position in that direction. It does not automatically close opposing positions—those must be managed separately through the Position tab, Order Zone, or the Quick Close function described below.

Important consideration: The execution price at market conditions may differ from the displayed price in the quick entry zone due to market movement.

Limit Orders for Strategic Entry

For more precise entry pricing, limit orders are accessible directly from your chart’s price scale. Hovering your mouse over the chart reveals a “+” button that activates the limit order interface. Here, you can specify your contract quantity and set your desired entry level.

The system intelligently determines order direction based on your price placement:

• Orders placed above the last traded price generate limit Sell orders
• Orders placed below the last traded price generate limit Buy orders

This feature eliminates the need to manually select buy or sell; the platform recognizes your intent from your price level.

Currently, limit order quick entry is not available on the App version, with desktop access only.

Immediate Position Closure Features

The Quick Close function provides one-click position liquidation directly from your chart display. On the left side where your current position appears, a simple X button initiates an immediate market order to close your entire position at prevailing market prices. This is the fastest way to exit a trade without navigating to additional menus.

Please note that the Quick Close button is currently accessible on desktop platforms only and is not yet available on the mobile app.

Reversing Positions Efficiently

The Quick Reversal tool handles a common trading scenario: reversing your directional bias without the extra steps of closing and reopening positions. This function automatically closes your current position and simultaneously opens a new position of equal size in the opposite direction.

How Position Reversal Works in Practice

Scenario 1 - Simple Reversal: Imagine you hold a 0.1 BTC long position with no existing short position. When you activate Quick Reversal for that long position, the system submits a 0.2 BTC short market order. This order first liquidates your 0.1 BTC long, then opens a fresh 0.1 BTC short position. Your final status: 0.1 BTC short.

Scenario 2 - Reversal with Existing Opposite Position: Suppose your account contains both a 0.2 BTC long position and a 0.1 BTC short position simultaneously. Triggering Quick Reversal on the long leg submits a 0.4 BTC short market order. The system closes the 0.2 BTC long and adds 0.2 BTC to your existing short, resulting in a combined 0.3 BTC short position.

The Quick Reversal function operates across both desktop and mobile environments, providing consistency in your trading experience.

Accessing Position Reversal Across Platforms

Desktop Environment: Look for the ↑↓ button displayed on your chart position indicator. Alternatively, navigate to your Position tab and select the Reverse button.

Mobile App: Access your derivatives position section, then tap the ↑↓ button on your specific position to trigger reversal.

Platform-Specific Access and Technical Constraints

Quick trading functions operate across PC and App platforms, though certain features show platform-specific availability. Market orders and Quick Reversal function universally, while Quick Open and Quick Close remain desktop-exclusive at present.

Order Size Limitations and System Behavior

All quick trading operations comply with maximum order size restrictions established for Perpetual and Futures Contracts. Should you attempt an order exceeding this limit through Quick Open, the system automatically adjusts your quantity downward to the maximum permissible size per order.

For Quick Reversal specifically, if your current position size surpasses the maximum order quantity threshold, the system executes a complete position closure without initiating the intended opposite position. You’ll need to manually open a new position to proceed. Reference the official Trading Data documentation for the precise maximum order sizes applicable to each specific trading pair.

Default Confirmation Settings

By default, quick trading functions include an order confirmation window before execution. Should you prefer streamlined trading without confirmation prompts, adjust this setting through your Preferences page:

Desktop: Navigate to Preferences and disable the confirmation window toggle App: Access your app settings and modify confirmation window preferences

These settings let you balance execution speed with execution certainty according to your personal trading style.