Conditional Order Guidelines

Hours

You can set up and activate conditional orders at any time (including outside of standard market hours) and they will display in the Order Status tab.

However, because conditional orders require updated Level 1 quote information to function, they will not initialize until the next trading session.

After Hours

Conditional Orders become inactive at the end of the standard session (4:00 p.m. ET), but they remain in the Order Status tab pending further action such as editing, activation, deactivation or removal.

Indices

Conditional orders based on indices should only be set up using the variables Trade Price, Change from Open, and Change from Close variables. Although you can create conditional orders that use indices using other variables such as Bid or Ask, these alerts will never fire because that data does not exist for indices.

Wide Spreads

Conditional orders on symbols with wide spreads may not fire if the spread is too wide.

Quick Triggers

Conditional orders automatically cancel if triggered within 10 seconds of being set.

Position Quantities

When placing a conditional order where you are trading a securities in your account, if the tradable quantity of your position is less than the order quantity, the software will send the order for the lesser amount (as opposed to rejecting the order due to insufficient shares available to trade).

EXAMPLE

You have a conditional order to sell your 1000 shares of ABCD if Trade P&L loses 1%. At some point between when you established the conditional order and when it triggers, you sell 300 shares. When Trade P&L loses 1%, the software will adjust to the new quantity and send a SmartEx market order for 700 shares will be sent. The same would hold true if you were short 1000 shares of ABCD and you tried to buy 1500 shares using a conditional order.

P&L Alerts

If you have an active conditional order based on either the Share or Trade P&L of a position and you increase or reduce the position quantity, the software will ask you to decide what to do with the conditional order. You can tell it to:

• Keep the order as it is without recalculating the trigger price due to accommodate the updated position
• Change the order to include the new position and recalculate the trigger price
• Deactivate the order to change it to an Inactive state in the Order Status tab
• Remove the order to deactivate it and remove it from the Order Status tab

After a Conditional Order Triggers

• Conditional orders established with conditions that have already been met or are imminent will not activate and you will be presented with an opportunity to make changes to your order.
• After a conditional order is triggered and the order is sent, the conditions are deactivated. The same conditional order cannot trigger more than once without being reactivated first.
• If you are not logged on when a conditional order fires, a message indicating that the order triggered in your absence will display in the Messages and as a pop-up message at the bottom of your screen at login.