Order Type Helper
Binance's order ticket is crammed with market, limit, stop-limit, OCO and more, and beginners often can't tell which one the moment calls for. Answer the three questions below and it gives you a starting point for common cases, with the reasoning. It won't read the market for you and it isn't investment advice — it just translates "what I'm trying to do" into "which order to use."
How it works: this is a suggestion for common scenarios, not the only answer, and not investment advice. The same goal can often be reached more than one way, and Binance's futures and spot screens offer slightly different order types — go by what's actually available on your order screen. For how each order type behaves, see order types explained. This tool runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent, uploaded, or saved.
How the helper decides
There's nothing mystical to it — it just turns a few of the most common judgment calls into rules. Should the stop move with the price? If so, a trailing stop fits best: as price moves in your favor the trigger follows it up, and it only closes once price pulls back by a set amount. Want a take-profit and a stop-loss both resting, whichever hits first executes and the other cancels? That's the standard use for OCO (one-cancels-the-other). Just waiting for a better price, no rush to fill? Place a limit order. Need to fill immediately and aren't fussy about price? A market order — but accept the slippage, especially on thin coins or large orders, where the fill can land a good bit off what you saw.
There's no separate question for "wait until price reaches a level before the order goes live," but that's exactly what a stop-limit is for: once price hits your trigger, it posts at the limit you set. If it shows up in your result, it's usually because you want to wait for a price and don't want to babysit the chart.
A few things people trip on
A market order is fast, but when liquidity is thin the slippage bites — check the order-book depth before a big one; limit, market, and slippage covers this in detail. With an OCO, once one side fills the other cancels automatically — don't assume both are still resting. Set a trailing stop's pullback too tight and normal noise knocks you out; set it too wide and it doesn't protect your profit — tune that number to how volatile the instrument is.
This isn't investment advice. Reference: Binance Help Center (order types). The availability and behavior of each order type follow whatever Binance's official page shows for the current period.