A fill far from your price on a release: what do you do next?

Slippage happens when an order fills at a different price from the one requested. It is more common around releases, when prices move quickly and liquidity thins. A fill far from your price changes the risk of a trade you had planned carefully. MetaTrader 4 vs MetaTrader 5 vs cTrader vs TradingView compares the platforms members use to place orders, and the order types each one offers matter when a fill goes wrong.

What you do when it happens matters more than the cause. Members who have had a bad fill often change one thing: they reduce size around releases, use limit orders in some cases, or stop placing new orders in the first minutes after a release. Each choice has a trade-off, because a limit order can go unfilled when the price moves away. How to trade the news covers planning around a release, which is where the order rules should be written down.

We would like to hear your experience:

• Have you had a fill far from your price on a release? What was the difference?
• Does your broker's execution policy say how slippage is handled? Did you read it?
• Do you use limit orders around news, and what trade-offs have you found?
• What would you check on a broker's execution before you trust it on a release day?

Please share your own approach and reasoning, not calls for others to copy. Posts that promise a direction or sell signals will be removed.