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ArcaEdge allows you to control your orders through a wide variety of order types. Following is an overview of the order types we support.

Order Type Description
Market Order An order to be executed at the best available market price.
Limit Order An order to buy or sell a security at or better than a specified price.
Reserve Order Size (RSV) A reserve order that replenishes the displayed order size as executions are received, up to the total order quantity; away markets are routed at their quoted size or larger (if applicable) when hitting the bid or taking the offer.
Stop Market An order to buy or sell that becomes a market order once a specified price is reached or penetrated. The order is stored, held and not displayed until the strike price is at or inside the NBBO.
Stop Limit An order to buy or sell at a specified price or better after a given stop price has been reached or passed. The order is stored, held and not displayed until the strike price is at or inside the NBBO.
PNP + A limit order to buy or sell that is to be executed in whole or in part on NYSE Arca. The portion not executed is posted in the Arca Web Book without routing any portion of the order to another market center. PNP+ orders will be restricted by the NBBO (when quotes are greater than or equal to quotation tier size) and may not lock or cross the NBBO, instead they will micro penny back.
Time In Force
Fill or Kill (FOK) An order that requires the immediate execution of the entire share quantity at the specified price or cancel the order.
Immediate Or Cancel An order that requires the immediate execution of as many shares as can be filled against resident ArcaEdge liquidity at a price up to and including the limit price; with instructions to cancel the remaining unfilled shares. To protect the subscriber, market IOC orders will not be accepted.
Good for the Day An order to buy or sell; if not executed will expire at the end of the trading day.
DAY+ An order to buy or sell that will be eligible for display and execution during the pre-market (8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET) and core trading (9:30 a.m. to 4:01 p.m. ET) sessions.
Short Sale Processing
Sell Short (SS) An order to sell short is the sale of securities that are not owned by the seller. The short sale rules apply to all traders using this function.
Sell Short Exempt (SSX) A short sale that is exempt from the short sale rules. This order type is available only to registered Market Makers.