{"id":408,"date":"2025-04-14T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/?p=408"},"modified":"2025-05-26T06:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:50:48","slug":"why-was-my-take-profit-not-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/faqs\/why-was-my-take-profit-not-executed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was my Take Profit not executed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Take Profit is usually not executed for two possible reasons:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. When there is not enough liquidity in the market to fill your order.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you may already know, a Take Profit is a Limit Order and by nature it cannot be executed at a worse price.<\/p>\n<p>However, when the market is extremely volatile or\/and there is thin liquidity at the time of execution, it is possible that your order will be partially executed or not executed at all.<\/p>\n<p>This is rare because it mostly concerns larger trades and happens during illiquid times.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible though to affect smaller trades if there are abnormal market conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The market is yet to reach your Take Profit Level (even though you can see the price on the Chart).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this event, your order must be a Sell Order.<\/p>\n<p>Sell Orders open on the BID price and close on the ASK price.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, it could be possible that you can see your TP level on the Chart, but the ASK price was higher at that time.<\/p>\n<p>To find the ASK price, you must add the spread that existed at that time, but in all cases, the ASK price will be higher than the BID price.<\/p>\n<p>An easy way to identify the ASK price based on what you see on a Chart is by adding the average spread. This will give you an indication, whether the ASK price hit your TP or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Take Profit is usually not executed for two possible reasons: 1. When there is not enough liquidity in the market to fill your order. As you may already know, a Take Profit is a Limit Order and by nature it cannot be executed at a worse price. However, when the market is extremely volatile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs","category-trading"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}