How to Place a Trade on MT5 Mobile

The MetaTrader 5 mobile app allows you to open trades, set stop loss and take profit levels, and place pending orders from your phone or tablet. For traders who spend time away from the desktop, mobile order placement is the difference between catching a setup as it forms and watching it pass by.

This guide covers the two main ways to place a trade on MT5 mobile (market orders and pending orders), the order types available, how to attach stop loss and take profit at the moment of placement, and a few mobile-specific considerations such as one-click trading and the absence of Expert Advisor execution on the app. It applies to both iOS and Android.

Order Types Available on MT5 Mobile

MT5 mobile supports six order types in total: one market order type and five pending order types. (The pending category is sometimes listed as six pending types in MT5 documentation, including market execution as the sixth, depending on how the platform counts.) For practical purposes, the choices on a mobile trader's order screen are:

• Market execution: open the position immediately at the current bid or ask price
• Buy Limit: a pending order to buy below the current market price
• Sell Limit: a pending order to sell above the current market price
• Buy Stop: a pending order to buy above the current market price (typically used when expecting a breakout to the upside)
• Sell Stop: a pending order to sell below the current market price (typically used when expecting a breakdown)
• Buy Stop Limit and Sell Stop Limit: two-stage pending orders that combine a stop trigger with a limit entry; available on MT5 but not on MT4

The MT5 desktop platform also supports three order fill policies: Fill or Kill, Immediate or Cancel, and Return. The fill policy chosen affects how a market order is handled if it cannot be filled in full at the requested price. Most mobile order screens default to a sensible fill policy for the instrument; you do not normally need to change it.

Method 1: Placing a Market Order on MT5 Mobile

The most common kind of trade is a market order, which opens a position immediately at the current market price. From the bottom navigation bar, tap the Quotes tab. The list of symbols you are watching is displayed, with bid and ask prices updating in real time.

Tap the symbol you want to trade. A menu appears with options such as New Order, Chart, and Properties. Tap New Order. The order screen opens with the symbol's current bid and ask prices at the top, a Type dropdown (defaulting to Market Execution), a Volume field, and Stop Loss and Take Profit fields below.

Set the Volume to the lot size you want, in lots (for example, 0.10 for ten micro-lots, 1.00 for one standard lot). Optionally enter Stop Loss and Take Profit prices. Then tap the Sell (red) or Buy (blue) button at the bottom of the screen. The platform sends the order to the TIOmarkets server, and the position is opened at the next available market price. The newly opened position appears in the Trade tab a moment later.

If the trade is rejected (for example because the lot size exceeds the maximum, or because there is insufficient free margin), MT5 returns an error and the position is not opened. The Journal tab in the desktop terminal logs the exact reason; on mobile, the error message in the order screen usually summarises the cause.

Method 2: Placing a Pending Order on MT5 Mobile

A pending order is an instruction to open a trade when price reaches a specific level. The order sits at the broker's server, consuming no margin until it triggers. To place a pending order, follow the same path as a market order (Quotes tab > tap symbol > New Order), then change the Type dropdown from "Market Execution" to one of the pending types: Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Buy Stop, Sell Stop, Buy Stop Limit, or Sell Stop Limit.

When you select a pending type, the screen updates to show additional fields: a Price field for the trigger price (the price at which the pending order will activate and become a market order), and an Expiration option (GTC, Today, Specified, or Specified Day, depending on the build).

For example, to place a Buy Limit on EURUSD with the current price at 1.0900, you might set the trigger price to 1.0850, meaning the order will trigger and open a long position only if price drops to 1.0850. You would also set the Volume, the Stop Loss (for example 1.0820, 30 pips below the trigger), and the Take Profit (for example 1.0950, 100 pips above the trigger). Once the fields are set, tap Place. The pending order appears in the Trade tab under Pending Orders until it triggers, is modified, expires, or is deleted.

Pending orders do not consume margin while they wait. Margin is held only when the order triggers and an open position is created.

Setting Stop Loss and Take Profit at Order Placement

Both market orders and pending orders allow you to attach SL and TP at the moment you place the order. The fields appear on the same New Order screen below the Volume.

Stop Loss and Take Profit on MT5 mobile are entered as absolute prices, not as distances in pips. For a long EURUSD position at 1.0900, a 30-pip stop loss would be entered as 1.0870 (the entry price minus 0.0030); a 100-pip take profit would be entered as 1.1000. For a short position, the SL is above the entry and the TP is below.

The MT5 platform enforces a stops level distance, which is the minimum gap between the SL or TP price and the current market price. If the SL or TP is set too close, the order is rejected and the screen displays an error. Move the SL or TP further from the current price and try again. On mobile, the exact stops level distance for a given instrument is not always visible; the rejection message is the cleanest signal that you have hit it.

If you do not set SL or TP at the time of placement, you can add them later through the Modify dialog. From the Trade tab, tap the position and select Modify to enter or change the SL and TP values.

One-Click Trading on MT5 Mobile

For experienced traders who want faster order entry, MT5 mobile supports a one-click trading mode that places the trade immediately when the Buy or Sell button is tapped, without the intermediate confirmation step. The setting is typically available in the app's Settings or in the trade dialog itself, depending on the build.

When one-click trading is enabled, the Buy and Sell buttons in the New Order screen, and the buy and sell buttons that appear when you tap a symbol from the Quotes tab, send the trade as soon as you tap. SL and TP can still be added before placing the order or attached via Modify after the fact, but the platform does not pause for a confirmation prompt.

One-click trading speeds up entry but increases the risk of accidental orders, particularly on a touchscreen. Most traders leave it disabled by default and only enable it when they are placing many trades in quick succession.

iOS and Android Notes

MT5 mobile is functionally similar on iOS and Android, with small interface differences. On iOS, the New Order screen typically appears as a modal sheet, and the Buy and Sell buttons follow the standard Apple button styles. On Android, the screen often opens as a full-screen activity with Material Design controls.

The Type dropdown on iOS may appear as a tap-to-open picker that scrolls vertically; on Android it may appear as a dropdown menu or a list. The price input fields use the platform's native numeric keyboard on both operating systems. The exact wording of menu items can vary slightly between builds.

In both cases, the underlying actions (set Type, set Volume, set SL/TP, tap Buy or Sell) are the same. If a control mentioned here looks different on your device, check that the app is up to date and look for a similar element in the same area of the screen.

Practical Considerations

A few practical points are worth keeping in mind when placing trades on MT5 mobile.

The TIOmarkets MT5 platform uses hedging mode for position accounting, which means you can hold multiple positions on the same symbol in either the same or opposite directions. This is true on both desktop and mobile. Each position is tracked independently in the Trade tab, with its own entry price, SL, TP, and floating P&L.

Expert Advisors and strategy testing are not available on MT5 mobile. They require the desktop terminal. The mobile app supports the same set of order types and the same fill policies, but if your trading workflow includes automated logic, the desktop platform is the appropriate place to run it.

The mobile app limits the number of trades you can have open per client to 200 open and pending orders combined, in line with the TIOmarkets account rules. Each individual trade is also capped at 20 lots maximum on the platform side. These limits apply across desktop and mobile.

Finally, orders are executed at the best available market price, which may result in positive or negative slippage. Demo accounts often execute instantly and may not fully replicate live slippage conditions, so it is sensible to practise the order placement workflow on a demo account before placing live trades. The Trade tab supports pull-to-refresh on most builds, which is a useful way to verify that an order has been registered by the server after placement.

Trading at TIOmarkets

TIOmarkets offers MetaTrader 5 and MetaTrader 4 on desktop, web, and mobile, across four account types. The Standard account is created automatically on registration with a minimum deposit of $20 or currency equivalent. The Raw and VIP Black accounts are opened separately through the client area. The Nano account is MT5 only with a $20 minimum deposit, USD only. Hedging is supported on all accounts. A swap-free Islamic account is available; contact TIOmarkets for eligibility and instrument requirements. Copy trading is available on both MT4 and MT5.

Orders are executed at the best available market price, which may result in positive or negative slippage. Demo accounts often execute instantly and may not fully replicate live slippage conditions. Spreads are variable and are typically higher than minimum figures shown. Leverage on each instrument is subject to change depending on market conditions and applicable regulatory requirements. You can review the full list of account types on the TIOmarkets accounts page.