KuCoin Limit Order: Setting Your Price Instead of Chasing It

What a Limit Order Does

A limit order only fills at your chosen price or better. It can rest on the book for minutes, days, or until you cancel it, instead of executing immediately like a market order.

Limit Orders and the Maker Fee on KuCoin

When your limit order rests on the book and someone else's order fills against it, KuCoin bills that fill at the maker rate — usually cheaper than the taker rate charged on a market order. KCS holding or fee payment trims the maker rate further.

Place a Limit Order on KuCoin

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Time-in-Force Options Worth Knowing

GTC (good-till-cancelled) is the default on most pairs; IOC (immediate-or-cancel) and FOK (fill-or-kill) exist for traders who want to control partial fills. A post-only option, where available, guarantees maker-side treatment by rejecting an order that would otherwise fill immediately.

Order Types Available on KuCoin

Market, limit, and stop-limit orders, plus bot-driven orders that execute automatically inside a configured range.

The Limit-Order Habit Worth Building on KuCoin

A trader who automates a simple grid bot on a range-bound pair instead of watching charts all day tends to default to limit orders on KuCoin specifically because kucoin's top pairs are reasonably deep, but altcoin breadth means many pairs carry thinner books than a trader coming from a larger exchange might expect.

• Set the price a touch inside the spread, not chasing the last trade
• Cancel and replace instead of leaving a stale price resting for days
• Compare the maker fee saved against the time spent waiting for a fill