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Market or limit? Designing a deliberate order

Order type answers when to participate. Configuration answers how much risk to carry if the order becomes a position.

Market or limit? Designing a deliberate order — Madai Signal

A market order prioritizes immediate execution and accepts the best available price. A limit order names the highest buy price or lowest sell price you accept, but it may remain open or never fill.

Madai shows the current price, pre-fills it when you choose limit, and keeps the active trading configuration visible. You can switch configurations before submission instead of leaving the order detached from its stops and sizing logic.

Before confirmation, read the estimated position value, account-at-risk, reward-to-risk, and liquidation distance. Estimates are not guarantees, but they force the size and downside assumptions into view.