The Trading Center give you real time quotes for various stocks. It includes Positions, Order Status, Execution, Stock, and Option.

Trade Pages

Place your mouse over Trading Center and select Stocks for the stock trading or Options to place option trades.

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Stocks

The Stocks page is used to trade ONLY STOCKS. Option symbols will not work on this page. To place a trade, follow the instructions below.

To Place a trade:

1. Type the symbol of the security in the blank field next to Symbol.
2. Choose your action Buy, Sell, Short, or Cover.
3. Type the quantity you wish to purchase in the Quantity field.
4. Choose an order type Limit, Market, Stop, Stop Limit.
5. Once an order type is chosen, limit or stop fields will either be grayed out or white allowing you to enter in a price. For example if Market is chosen both the limit price and stop target price fields will be grayed out. This is due to the fact that when doing a Market order there is no limit price or stop target price used for that type of order. If a limit order is chosen then only the limit price field will be white allowing for you to assign a price to the order. Click on the down arrow to display all your options Grayed out
6. Choose your Duration: Day, GTEM (Good Til Extended Market), or GTC (Good Til Cancel). Refer to the Definitions section if your not sure what kind of order you want to send.
7. If you require a quote click on the RTQ button, a window will appear

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8. Look over your order to see if there are any mistakes then click Preview Order to continue.
9. Finally look at the Confirm Order page one last time to see if any mistakes have been made. If a mistake has been made, click on the Edit Order button to make a correction. If no mistake was made then click Send Order, this will send the order to the market.
10. Click Order Status to check the current status of your orders.

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Options

The Options page is used to trade OPTIONS ONLY. Stock symbols will not work on this page.

There are two differences when placing an option trade compared to a stock trade. So you can follow the same basic steps as you explained for stocks.

1. Enter the quantity in # Contracts field.
2. Transaction Type is now Buy To Open, Sell To Close, Sell To Open or Buy To Close.

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Order Status

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The Order Status page will display all orders done today. For historical orders view the History Page. Click Refresh button to receive the most current status of your order.

To see more detail about the order click on the Detail link to get an Order Detail window.

To see a Real Time Quote for this symbol click the RTQ Link. A window will appear with the information of this symbol.

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To place a cancel for this order, click on the Cancel link. Once clicked you will see the Cancel Confirmation window. This window is to confirm you want to cancel the order once Cancel Order button is clicked a cancel message is sent to the market. This window DOES NOT CONFIRM THE ORDER IS CANCELLED. To see if the order is cancelled check your Order Status page.

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Executions

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The Executions page displays all you execution for the day. For historical orders view the History page.

To see more detail about the order click on the Detail link to get an Order Detail window.

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