Use the Tradovate Order Ticket to Place Orders
The Order Ticket is the most direct way to put an order into the market in Tradovate. No dragging on a chart, no clicking a price on the ladder, you type exactly what you want and send it.
The Order Ticket is the most direct way to put an order into the market in Tradovate. No dragging on a chart, no clicking a price on the ladder, you type exactly what you want and send it. It's a small panel, but every field matters: get the direction, quantity, order type, or price wrong and you can end up in a position you didn't intend. This guide walks through placing a market, limit, or stop order from the ticket, plus what to check before you hit Send.
If you'd rather click price levels directly, the SuperDOM ladder is the other common way to enter orders. The Order Ticket is the better fit when you know your price and want to type it in cleanly.
Add the Order Ticket to Your Workspace
Open the New + menu at the top of the platform and drag the Order Ticket module onto your workspace. It docks like any other panel, so you can size it and park it next to your chart or DOM. On mobile, the equivalent is the order entry screen you reach after selecting a contract.
Pick the Account and Contract
Before anything else, confirm which account the ticket is pointed at. If you run a personal account and one or more evaluation accounts, the ticket trades whatever account is selected, an easy thing to overlook when you're moving fast. Then click the instrument name in the top-left of the module tab and type a symbol (for example MNQ, ES, or CL). A dropdown lists the available contracts; pick the current front-month unless you're deliberately trading a later expiration.
Set Direction and Quantity
Choose Buy or Sell, then enter the Quantity, the number of contracts. Keep an eye on your risk limits here. If you're on a funded or evaluation account, the maximum contracts you can hold is capped, and that ceiling varies by firm and account size, so check your firm's current rules before sizing up. Overshoot it and the order comes back rejected.
Choose the Order Type and Price
Open the order type selector and pick how you want the order to fill. Tradovate also offers a Stop Limit (a stop that becomes a limit instead of a market order) and other advanced types, but market, limit, and stop cover most day-to-day entries and exits. Type your price carefully, a mistyped limit or stop is one of the fastest ways to get a fill you didn't want.
Set Time-in-Force and Send
Pick a time-in-force so the platform knows how long the order should live: Day expires at the end of the session if it hasn't filled, GTC (Good-Til-Canceled) stays working across sessions until it fills or you cancel it, and GTD (Good-Til-Date) works until a date you set. A market order fills right away, so time-in-force matters most for limit and stop orders that may sit in the book. Do a last read of the whole ticket, account, contract, Buy/Sell, quantity, type, price, then click Send. That single review habit catches the mistakes that hurt most. Want stop-loss and take-profit to attach automatically when your entry fills? Flip the ticket from Simple to Advanced View and build a bracket.
Track, Modify, or Cancel the Order
Once you Send, a market order should fill in a moment and show up as a position. A limit or stop order sits as a working order in the Orders module. From there you can change the price if the market moved past you, adjust quantity, or cancel it outright. If an order won't modify or cancel during a platform hiccup, flattening the position manually is the safe fallback.
| Order type | What it does | Price you enter |
|---|---|---|
| Market | Fills immediately at the best available price. Fast, but the fill can slip in a fast market. | None |
| Limit | Fills only at your price or better. A buy limit sits below the market; a sell limit sits above. | Your limit price |
| Stop | Rests until the market trades through your trigger, then fires as a market order. Common for stop-losses and breakout entries. | Your stop (trigger) price |
A Few Things Worth Remembering
Double-check the account selector every session, sending to the wrong account is the classic order-ticket mistake. If a market order rejects, it's usually risk limits, margin, or a data agreement rather than the ticket itself. And if you place a lot of the same setups, save an ATM profile so your quantity, type, and protective orders are one click away instead of five fields to fill each time.
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