{"id":431,"date":"2025-04-14T14:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/?p=431"},"modified":"2025-10-27T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:24:20","slug":"how-do-i-place-a-pending-order-on-mt4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/faqs\/how-do-i-place-a-pending-order-on-mt4\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I place a pending order on MT4?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pending order is an instruction to open a position when an instrument reaches a certain price pre-defined by you.<\/p>\n<p>You can place a pending order via the main <strong>&#8220;Order&#8221;<\/strong> window.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-432\" src=\"https:\/\/OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1192\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-1.png 1192w, https:\/\/www.OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-1-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-1-1024x519.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-1-768x389.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simply change the \u2018Type\u2019 from \u2018Market Execution\u2019 to <strong>&#8220;Pending Order&#8221;<\/strong>. A drop-down menu will then appear that will allow you to specify whether the pending order you are about to place is a Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Buy Stop, or a Sell Stop Order. It will also allow you to set a limit price and expiry date and time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-433\" src=\"https:\/\/OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1192\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-2.png 1192w, https:\/\/www.OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-2-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-2-1024x527.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.OneRoyal.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/how-place-pending-order-2-768x396.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Bear in mind that Buy stops &amp; Sell limits must be placed above the current market price while Sell stops and Buy limits must be placed below the current market price.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pending order is an instruction to open a position when an instrument reaches a certain price pre-defined by you. You can place a pending order via the main &#8220;Order&#8221; window. Simply change the \u2018Type\u2019 from \u2018Market Execution\u2019 to &#8220;Pending Order&#8221;. A drop-down menu will then appear that will allow you to specify whether the [&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":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs","category-metatrader-platform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}