What is Difference between Sell Stop Order & Buy Stop Order?
What's Sell Stop?
What Does Sell StopMean?
A Sell Stop Order authorizes the sale of gold once the price reaches a predetermined sell stop level.
The sell stop pending order is always set to open a sell below the present market prices.
What is Sell StopExample?
In the example provided below, a sell stop order was configured to sell at a price below the current market price.
The financial instrument's price then dropped, triggering the sell stop order, and then the price kept going in a downward direction.

Positioning a Sell Stop Order Below a Resistance Level - What is the Definition of a Sell Stop Order?
A sell stop order is a tool used to create a pending order when a chart shows a pattern of stability. The sell stop helps set a sell order just below that stable pattern, like shown below. If the price breaks downward after being stable, a new sell order will open as soon as the price hits the sell stop level.

Placing Sell Stop Order in a Break out
A sell signal was created from the sell stop order described earlier when the price went below a support level in the first case, and when the price broke downwards after a period of market stability in the second sell stop order example.
What is Buy Stop ?
What Does Buy Stop Order Mean?
A Buy Stop Order is an order to purchase XAUUSD after the price ascends to the designated buy stop price level.
A buy stop order places a purchase above the current market price.
What is Buy Stop Order Example?
In the examples detailed and visualized below, a buy stop order was configured to initiate a purchase at a price level exceeding the prevailing market price.
The price of that financial tool went up to activate the buy stop order that was waiting, and after that, the price kept going up even more.

Placing Buy Stopabove Resistance Area - What is Buy Stop?
Buy stop order also is used to set a pending order when there's a consolidation setup pattern on a chart. Buy stop order is used to set a buy trade order just above the consolidation pattern just as is illustrated below so that if there a price break out upward after the consolidation pattern then a new buy order is opened - by buy stop order once the buy stop price set is reached and attained.

Placing Buy Stop Order in a Break out
A buy signal came from the buy stop order. It triggered when price broke resistance in the first case. In the second, it hit after a consolidation and upward breakout.
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