You got your <a href="http://tradinghubonline.com/blog/tip-off-signals-to-identify-a-possible-trade/">Tip Off</a> for an Instrument, done you Analysis and Trade Planning (<a href="http://tradinghubonline.com/blog/?p=899">Trading Blue Print</a>) and decided on your <a href="http://tradinghubonline.com/blog/teaching-modules/module-7-buy-and-sell-signals/">Trigger Signal</a>.

Now you must have patience to wait for your Trigger Signal to kick in and to and execute the trade.

But, it is not always possible to watch a market 24/7. This might be the case for Intra Day as well as End Of Day trading.

Often, if your trigger is a breakout of some strong support or resistance lines, the breakout may be volatile. You might be to slow to enter your trade and may then enter to late at a bad price, or not at all.

This is a good time to make use of a Forward Order. Some forward orders can be quite complicated and may be called different names on the different trading platforms. I will just discuss a simple forward order setup that I use frequently.
<h2>How a Forward order work:</h2>
The idea of a forward order is to have a <a href="http://tradinghubonline.com/blog/market-orders-limit-orders-and-stop-orders/">Stop </a>or <a href="http://tradinghubonline.com/blog/market-orders-limit-orders-and-stop-orders/">Limit </a>order in the market that will trigger if the price break a line, or touch a line, depending on your Trade Planning. You can also enter your Initial Stop Loss level and set your first Profit Taking target. It is often possible to make a Trailing Stop Loss part of the order.

If you entered this whole order structure <a href="http://tradinghubonline.com/blog/trade-without-fear/">you can walk away</a> and know what your risks are if the trade is executed.

Most forward orders have 3 actions you may take.
<h3>Stop Order:</h3>
If you expect prices to break a certain level before you enter you can use a Stop Order that will trigger if prices trade through your level. Remember that if price only touch the level it will not trade.

You Stop Order price should be a few pips/ticks below a support breakout, or a few pips above a resistance breakout.

Remember that your chances of getting a fill is good if price trade through your levels, but you might get a worse price than what you entered if there is a gap open or some slippage due to other volatility in price movement.

Be careful of using this order before an important market announcement.
<h3>Limit Order:</h3>
If you would for example expect price to retrace back to a certain strong support or resistance level before you enter you will use a <a href="http://tradinghubonline.com/blog/market-orders-limit-orders-and-stop-orders/">Limit Order</a>.

If price retraced as you expected and touch your level you should get a fill.

<strong>In the example below</strong> you will use a Stop Order for a breakout at <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">1</span></strong> and <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">4</span></strong>. It would have been difficult to enter these trades without a forward order.

At <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">2</span></strong> and <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">3</span></strong> you would use a Limit Order to enter when price touch the 100 mva. In <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">2</span></strong> prices just briefly touched the 100 mva, without the forward order you would probably have bought at a higher price.

<a href="http://tradinghubonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Forward-Order-example-1-5oct15.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1807" src="http://tradinghubonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Forward-Order-example-1-5oct15.jpg" alt="Forward Order example 1  5oct15" width="818" height="544" /></a>

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