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  "title": "Take-profit orders: triggers, partial fills and an open remainder",
  "description": "Read a take-profit trigger, choose between a market-style and limited exit, and track the position left after a fill.",
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    "text": "A take-profit order activates an exit when its chosen price condition is reached. For a long position the target is normally above the entry price; for a short it is below. A take-profit market order seeks matching when triggered, while a take-profit limit order retains a price bound and may not fill.",
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        "Suppose a long position entered at 100 has a take-profit trigger of 110 and a sell limit of 109. After triggering, only the quantity that finds buyers at 109 or better can execute. A reversal to bids below 109 can leave some or all of the order unfilled.",
        "A market-style take-profit trades execution urgency against less precise pricing, subject to the venue’s protections. Neither version guarantees net profit after all costs."
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        "If a trader manually closes half the position, an older exit instruction may be too large. Reduce-only constrains the resulting exposure. The cited dYdX implementation resizes conditional reduce-only orders at triggering; other venues can reject or handle them differently."
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        "Read trigger status, executed quantity, average fill price and remaining position separately. Multiple take-profit and stop orders also need explicit cancellation or linkage behavior; the mere existence of two orders does not establish that filling one cancels the other."
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      "question": "Can a take-profit order be set for a short position?",
      "answer": "Yes. A short normally takes profit by buying back exposure at a lower price, so its trigger direction differs from a long’s sell exit.",
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  "citation": "Degrees of Satoshi editorial project. “Take-profit orders: triggers, partial fills and an open remainder.” Published 2026-10-02; updated 2026-10-02. https://degreesofsatoshi.com/encyclopedia/take-profit-orders/"
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