Limit Orders on Padre: Every Type, Every Field
The order panel is where a terminal earns its keep over trading from a chat window. This is every order type Padre offers, what each field actually does, and the one setting that decides whether your take-profit covers your whole position or half of it.
The order types
| Type | Side | What triggers it |
|---|---|---|
| Market | Buy / Sell | Nothing — it fills now at the available price |
| Buy Dip | Buy | Price falls to or below your stop price |
| Stop Loss | Sell | Price drops to or below your stop price |
| Take Profit | Sell | Price reaches or exceeds your target |
| Trailing SL | Sell | Price falls your trailing delta below its peak |
All five come from one dropdown in the trading widget. A market order can also carry take-profit and stop-loss levels attached at entry through the TP/SL checkbox — which is the habit worth building, and the reasoning behind it is on the page about exits.
Buy Dip — a buy that waits
Set a stop price below the current price and the order sits until the market comes to you. Amounts have quick-select buttons (0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1 of the base currency) and the panel previews roughly how many tokens the fill would return.
The field worth slowing down for is Target FDV. Next to your trigger price, Padre shows the fully diluted valuation that price implies. A token at "a nice dip" is a different proposition at a $2M valuation than at $200M, and the price alone hides that. It is the rare interface detail that makes a worse decision harder to make.
Stop Loss and Take Profit
Both are sell limits and both are entered in the Stop Price field — including take-profit, which surprises people expecting a separate "target" box. Sell amounts have percentage quick-selects (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%) rather than base-currency buttons, because you are sizing out of a holding rather than into one.
Active orders are drawn on the candlestick chart, and you can move a level by dragging the order line. Faster than retyping a price, and it keeps you looking at the structure you set the level against instead of at a number in a box.
Trailing stop loss
A trailing stop follows the price up and never comes back down. You set a trailing deltaas a percentage below the peak, and the trigger ratchets upward as new highs print.
Padre's own documented example: a 5% delta on a token that peaks at $1.00 puts the stop at $0.95. If the price runs to $1.20, the stop moves to $1.14. A fall back to $1.14 executes. You captured the move without choosing a target in advance and without watching the screen.
The trade-off is honest: a 5% delta on a token that routinely swings 15% intraday will stop you out of a position that then continues. Delta is a volatility decision, not a preference.
The expensive one: fixed size vs position-based
This is the part of the old documentation most worth rescuing, because it is a trap you only find by losing money in it. Padre's own worked example:
You buy 1,000 tokens at $0.005 and set a take-profit at $0.01. Later, before the target hits, you buy another 1,000 at $0.006. Your position is now 2,000 tokens.
| Order style | What happens at $0.01 |
|---|---|
| Fixed size | Sells the 1,000 it was created with — half your position rides straight through the target |
| Position-based (%) | Scales with the holding and sells all 2,000 — the percentage stays constant, the amount follows |
A fixed order keeps the token amount you gave it. Add to the bag and your exit silently covers a smaller share of it. Setting the order as a percentage of position instead means averaging in never quietly dismantles your exit plan.
If you take one thing from this page: if you ever add to positions, use position-based orders.The failure mode is not an error message — it is a target that hits, a partial fill, and the rest of the bag still exposed while you assume you are out.
Exit Strategy: up to five exits on one buy
Separate from the single TP/SL checkbox, Padre documents an Exit Strategy panel available on both market buys and Buy Dip limit orders. Enable it when placing the order and you can define up to five independent exit conditions, each with three values: trigger type (TP or SL), the percentage price change that fires it, and the percentage of the position to sell.
Padre’s own example: TP +20%, 30% amount sells 30% of the position if price rises 20%; SL -10%, 40% amount sells 40% if it falls 10%. Each condition executes on its own, you may combine TP and SL freely, overlap them, or leave part of the position unallocated. Exits are submitted as market sells when the condition is met.
Two constraints that cost money if you learn them late. The strategy attaches to that specific buy order only — it is not a position-level rule, so a second buy needs its own. And once the order is confirmed the exit settings cannot be edited. Review them before confirming, because afterwards the only way out is a manual sell.
Sell Initials — taking your stake off the table
On Solana, Sell Initials is a one-click sell that recovers your original investment and leaves the rest of the position running. Padre’s documented example: buy a token for 1 SOL, price doubles, click Sell Init, and roughly 50% of the tokens are sold — returning your 1 SOL while you keep the remainder.
It only works while you are in profit; if price is below your entry the holding cannot cover the initial, and the action is unavailable. As a habit it is the cheapest discipline in low-cap trading: once the stake is back, what remains can go to zero without costing you anything you started with.
Before you confirm
- Check the wallet in the dropdown — orders are placed from a chosen wallet, and Padre uses one wallet per chain.
- Read the gas, priority fee and slippage shown at the bottom of the panel, not after the fill — those values come from the preset in force.
- On a sell, read the estimated receive amount — that is where thin liquidity shows itself.
- Decide the trailing delta against the token's actual volatility, not a round number.
- If the position came from a copy-trading automation, remember the exit is still yours unless Copy Sells is on.
Orders are where the terminal earns its keep — the trade padre gg overview has the wider picture.
Limit orders on Padre — questions
What order types does Padre support?
Market, Buy Dip (a buy limit), Stop Loss and Take Profit (both sell limits), and Trailing Stop Loss. All of them are chosen from the order-type dropdown in the trading widget, and market orders can carry a TP/SL attached at entry.
What is Buy Dip on Padre?
A buy limit order. You set a stop price below the current price and the buy executes automatically if the price falls to or below it. The panel also shows the target FDV for that price, so you see what valuation you would be buying at rather than just the number.
How does the trailing stop loss work?
You set a trailing delta as a percentage. The trigger price follows the peak price upward at that distance and never moves back down. The documented example: a 5% delta on a token peaking at $1.00 sits at $0.95; if the price rises to $1.20 the stop moves to $1.14, and a fall to $1.14 executes the order.
Can I edit a limit order after placing it?
Yes, and the fastest way is on the chart. Active limit orders are drawn on the candlestick chart and you can change the level by dragging the order line rather than retyping a price.
Why did my take-profit only sell half my position?
Almost certainly because it was a fixed-size order and you added to the position afterwards. A fixed order keeps the token amount it was created with. A position-based order is set as a percentage of the holding, so it scales when the holding does. This is the single most expensive detail on this page.
How many take-profit levels can I set on one order?
Up to five. The Exit Strategy panel takes as many as five independent conditions on a single buy, each with its own trigger type, percentage price change and percentage of the position. You can mix TP and SL, overlap them, or leave part of the position unallocated.
Can I change an exit strategy after placing the order?
No. Padre’s documentation is explicit that exit settings cannot be edited after the order is confirmed, and that they apply only to the specific buy they were attached to. Check them before confirming — afterwards the only route out is a manual sell.
Do limit orders on Padre cost gas even if they never trigger?
The panel shows gas and transaction details for the order before you confirm it, and execution is what puts a transaction on chain. Padre does not publish a fee for an order that never triggers, so treat the displayed cost as the cost of the fill and check the panel rather than trusting a number from a third party — including this one.
Order types, field names, quick-select values, the trailing-delta example and the position-based comparison are as published in Padre's own app guide — archived copies ofapp-guide/trading/limit-orders (16 July 2025) and market-orders(12 March 2026), since that documentation site went offline in September 2026. Nothing here is trading advice, and no fee or cost figure is quoted that Padre does not publish.