Trading Ladder

A concise area to view market liquidity.

How does the trading ladder work?

The ladder is a concept common to traditional market execution platforms. Commonly used, it allows a trader to view real-time market liquidity. The ladder works by showing current bids and offers in a given market visually.

How does executing through a ladder provide edge?

The ladder allows a trader to view comprehensively the current market state of a given trading pair. Being able to see the current market flow gives opportunity to a trader to capitalise on market inefficiencies.

The ladder can be used to place limit orders at given prices simply by clicking a given price. If a trader wishes to 'go to market' and sweep the bid or offer they can click above the best price bid/offered and execute an order straight to market. Managing risk is a key factor to consider, you are able to place stop losses on the bid and offer instantly to reduce upside and downside risk.

Point and click trade execution greatly improves your ability to take the first liquidity before others.

You can open the Trading Ladder widget as follows:

  • Select Ladder from the Add Item menu.

  • Select an Exchange to trade on in the header bar.

  • Search for a Product or Instrument in the header bar.

  • Select an account to trade on the selected product with.

Ladder Guides:

pageHow To: Place Market OrderspageHow To: Place Limit OrderspageHow To: Cancel OrderspageHow To: Place Algo Orders

Ladder Explained:

pageExplained: Ladder HeaderpageExplained: Ladder DOMpageExplained: Ladder ButtonspageExplained: Ladder Footer
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