The two basic instructions: a limit order names your price and waits; a market order takes whatever the book offers now. Limit orders risk missing the trade; market orders risk the price — in thin markets, badly.
Where Limit order / Market order is explained in depth
The definition above is the short version. These pages put it to work, in the order they use it most:
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