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Orders and finding your coins
At the buying stage, a few questions tend to come up: which order type to choose, what to do when a limit order sits there unfilled, where the coins appear afterwards, and whether a mistaken purchase can be undone. Open the guide that matches what you are seeing on screen.
- Market order or limit order: which should you use first?Explained from what the exchange actually does when you press the button. Once you understand the order book, the choice answers itself rather than needing a rule.
- I bought bitcoin but cannot find it. Where are my coins?Six possible causes, from display settings to an order that never filled. Start with the first two: small balances hidden, or the wrong account.
- I bought the wrong amount. Can I undo it?A filled order cannot be reversed. An unfilled one can be cancelled. What is actually recoverable, what is not, and the right order to handle a mistake in.
- How to check your crypto trade history and feesTrade History carries the price you paid, the quantity and the fee actually deducted; Order History tells you whether an order filled at all. Web and app routes, why one order can show up as several rows, and how to export anything older than six months.
- Limit order not filled? How to check, edit or cancel itOpen Orders carries the status and the filled quantity. What has to line up before a limit order executes, where the reserved money sits while it waits, and how editing a price differs from cancelling and starting again.
- Funding account vs spot account: check where your coins are before you transferThe trading page spends from Spot, while Funding used to catch P2P and Pay money. How to tell which account holds a coin during Binance’s migration, the app and web transfer steps, and the low-balance cases a transfer will not fix.
- How to read a crypto spot trading page: the pair, the order book and the order formA block-by-block tour of Binance’s public trading page: base and quote asset in BTC/USDT, the lowest red row in the order book, the Spot tab and the percentage bar in the order form, and the difference between Market Trades and My Trades.
- How to read your crypto asset page: balance, available funds, PnL and average costCheck the quantity and available balance of each coin first, then the reference figures: estimated value, daily profit and loss, and average cost. How each number is calculated, and where to look when available is lower than the quantity or a fresh purchase shows a loss.