Guaranteed stop loss orders

Guaranteed stop-loss orders (GSLOs) protect your positions from market gapping and slippage, providing you with margin relief by reducing your risk exposure.

We offer GSLOs on indices, gold and forex CFDs^*.

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^*GSLOs and margin relief on all stop order types are not available on cryptocurrency CFDs.

Unlike stop-loss orders, GSLOs protect your positions by guaranteeing to exit your trades at the exact price you specify, regardless of market volatility.
If your GSLO is triggered, we will charge you a fee (or premium) for the GSLO on your trade. If your GSLO is not triggered no fee is applied.

What is gapping?

Market gapping occurs when prices move instantaneously from one price level to another, without trading at the levels in between. This can happen during periods of high market volatility and in between sessions of continuous trading. On weekends and public holidays when markets are closed for trading, for example.

As a result of this gapping, when the markets re-open, your stop-loss orders may be filled at a worse price level than the one you may have requested. This is known as “slippage”.

If a GSLO is placed far enough away from the market price so that the margin requirement of the GSLO would be greater than the standard margin (5% on FX CFDs), then the standard margin requirement is used instead.

GSLOs can protect your trades from this slippage. As seen in the chart above, the market gapped but the GSLO was still filled at the requested price level. Since the GSLO was triggered, a GSLO premium was charged.

If you had placed a stop loss-order, your trade would have been closed at the next available price when the markets re-opened for trading.

Access higher leverage with GSLOs

GSLOs can free up your capital by lowering the margin requirement of a position more so than a standard stop-loss order.

With a standard stop loss order (SL) (for all assets except cryptocurrencies^{^}) your margin requirement will be limited to the amount at risk plus 30% of the standard margin. For example, if you place a trade of EUR/USD for 100,000 units with a SL 20 pips away from the market, your margin required would be $1700 ($200+ (30% x $5000)).

A position protected by a GSLO however will have a margin requirement limited to the amount of capital at risk, plus a 10% buffer and any fees. For example, if you place a trade of EUR/USD for 100,000 units, your margin required would typically be $5000 (5%). If you add a GSLO to the trade, 20 pips away from the market, your margin required would be reduced to approximately $230 ($200 risk amount + 10% of $200 + 1 pip premium). In this example, 1 pip is equal to $10 when you trade 100,000 units of this instrument.

^{^}For cryptocurrencies CFDs standard margin applies

Place a guaranteed stop-loss order on the OANDA mobile app and web platform

To add a GSLO to an order, simply tap the stop loss button and set your GSLO level either by price or select the level by the number of pips away from the entry price at which you would like your GSLO to be triggered.

A GSLO must be placed a 'minimum distance' away from the entry price. This minimum distance is displayed on the ticket.

The GSLO will be selected automatically here when adding a stop.

Portfolio screen

If a trade has a GSLO associated with it, this is displayed on the portfolio/trades screen like a normal stop loss, with an additional “G” next to the stop loss level.

Platforms and GSLOs

GSLOs are available on the following platforms:

Platform	GSLO	SLO
OANDA Web	Available with margin relief	Available with margin relief
OANDA Mobile	Available with margin relief	Available with margin relief
MT4	Unavailable	Available without margin relief
MT5	Unavailable	Available without margin relief
TradingView	Unavailable	Available without margin relief

Key information and restrictions on GSLOs

Stop loss is now the default on all trade orders. GSLOs can be selected from the drop-down order list.

GSLOs can only be placed (or added to a position) during market hours. They can be added to an order (or existing position) by toggling the stop loss button on the order ticket.

A GSLO must be placed further than the ‘minimum distance’ from the entry price. This minimum distance is displayed on the ticket.

The GSLO premium, which is only charged if the GSLO is triggered, is displayed below the stop loss entry field.

During market hours, a GSLO can be modified so long as it meets the minimum distance criteria, while outside of market hours, you can only move a GSLO further away from the current market price.

The GSLO will remain until you close the trade out or the GSLO is executed. A GSLO attached to a limit or stop order can be cancelled.

If you hold an open trade with a GSLO attached to it on an index CFD when dividend adjustments are applied, your GSLO will be adjusted to offset the effect of the dividend adjustment. For example: if an index dividend adjustment moved down ten points, your GSLO would be adjusted ten points.

Please note: Successful adjustment to a GSLO will impact the amount of margin required to hold the position. This will be reflected on the Trades tab under ‘Margin’.

Other restrictions

If you have multiple trades open on the same instrument with multiple GSLOs, the minimum distance applies between each GSLO as well as with the market price.

You cannot place GSLOs on instruments where you have both long and short positions at the same time (hedged trades).

If you attach a GSLO to an order or trade on the OANDA platform, you will not be able to modify this on MT4 and it will appear as a normal stop loss within the MT4 platform.

Orders submitted via MT4 will perform a margin check using the standard margin requirement, even if a stop loss is attached.

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How is a GSLO differently from a standard stop-loss?

Let’s say you open one unit of a long CFD position on the Australia 200 Index at 7000 and place your guaranteed stop 50 points away at 6950 as you are concerned about market volatility.

1. The premium being charged if the GSLO is triggered is 2 pips.

If the index gaps down 100 points to 6900, your position would automatically be closed out at your GSLO level of 6950 and you will realise a loss.

(order size x stop distance) + (order size x premium fee) = loss

(1 x 50) + (1 x 2) = AUD52

If you hadn't placed the guaranteed stop on your position, but instead used a standard stop loss at 6950, your trade would have closed at 6900, resulting in a loss of AUD100.

2. Using the same example, the GSLO for Australia 200 index is at 6950. Let’s say there was a dividend adjustment of 2 points, the GSLO price will then be adjusted by 2 points to 6948.

Margin used before dividend adjustment:

(order size x stop distance between market price and GSLO price) + 10% buffer + (order size x premium fee) =

(1 x (7000 - 6950)) + 10% + (1 x 2) = AUD 57

Assume price of Australia 200 goes to 7050

Margin used after dividend adjustment: