The exchange already shows "filled," and the position appears in your holdings list, but a USDC transfer has been stuck for half an hour without confirmation. When you open your wallet, the balance ha

You open the Polymarket page and notice that a position you had yesterday is gone today. Your first reaction may be "the market settled," but it could also be that the frontend data just did not load.

You bet on "Party A wins" in an election market and wait confidently for settlement. Then you discover that the same person, on the same platform, betting on the same event, faces completely different

You excitedly check the weather forecast, think you have a sure win, and bet on a weather market. Then the official data comes out, and it is different from what you saw—or was even revised later. Doe

You find a prediction market and think your odds are strong. But just before placing an order, you hesitate—what if you get burned at settlement? The truth is, many settlement disputes can be avoided

You are staring at the candlestick chart. The price has clearly touched your stop-loss level, but the order did not trigger, and your position is gone. Do not rush to blame the platform. In most cases

Have you ever experienced this: the price on the K-line chart clearly broke through your stop loss level, but your order just sat there motionless, and you ended up watching helplessly as your positio

The screen says "Triggered," but your position hasn't moved, and the price keeps falling. You stare at the word "Triggered" with a million questions in your head—it triggered, so why hasn't it filled?

"Isn't a stop market order supposed to fill at my stop price? Why is the final fill price so far away?" — This is the most common question from people who have just been burned by slippage. The answer

"I've set my stop limit order. How much distance should I leave between the trigger price and the limit price? Too close and I'm afraid it won't fill. Too far and I'm worried about slippage." Many tra

"I set a stop-loss, so why was my position liquidated before the order even triggered?" — If you've ever said this, chances are you placed your stop price "behind" your liquidation price.{loadposition

"I have three stop-loss orders triggered at the same time. Will the order of execution cause the later ones to fill at worse prices?" This worry is actually unnecessary. The short answer is: when trig

After you close a position, the price moves around again, and your old stop-loss order suddenly triggers — directly opening a new position in the opposite direction for you. This sounds crazy, but som

"I clearly set my stop-loss quantity to only half of my position. Why did the system close my entire position when it triggered?" — You probably ran into the hidden logic of the Reduce Only option. Be

A trader originally held a long position and wanted to set a stop-loss to protect it. But after the order was triggered, it opened a new short position instead. The position became hedged immediately.

If you apply a 2% stop-loss per trade directly to both isolated and cross margin, the results are completely different. The core difference is not the percentage itself, but where the liquidation pric