Gate.io Conditional Futures Orders and Order-Type Troubleshooting

Summary

This brief post asks whether a sample API request creates a conditional Gate futures order. The snippet specifies a BTC contract, a short opening direction, a trigger price, limit pricing, and a good-till-cancelled time policy. The author reports that live use instead produced an ordinary buy order and asks why.

The post provides a concrete order-submission example and a practical execution question, but it does not include an answer, exchange response, or diagnosis. As a result, it does not establish which fields or parameter combinations are valid, nor why the observed order differed from the intended conditional short. Readers can learn which order attributes the author attempted to set, but should not treat the snippet as verified API guidance. The exchange’s contract conventions and current API requirements would need to be checked before relying on this request in live trading.

Key ideas

• The post concerns conditional futures orders on Gate.io.
• The example attempts to open a short BTC contract position using a trigger and limit price.
• The author reports that live submission appeared as an ordinary buy order.
• No diagnosis or confirmed correction is provided.

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