Stop loss orders may protect an investment from potential losses, while trigger buy orders may help to take advantage of share price movements without having to constantly monitor share prices yourself.

If the trigger price is met, your stop loss or trigger buy order becomes a market order and is placed in a queue to be filled. From this point, typical market order processes and timing apply.

Stop loss and trigger buy orders are currently only available for US investments.

When you set up a stop loss order, you choose:

When you set up a trigger buy order, you choose:

For step-by-step guidance on placing an order for US investments, check out our article for buying investments.

A stop loss or trigger buy order is placed as a market order when your trigger price is reached during regular trading hours—usual market order processing applies. Price changes during extended trading hours won’t trigger a market order.

You can cancel a pending trigger order, but you won’t be able to edit it (you’ll need to cancel it and place it again). If your trigger price isn’t reached within 30 days, your trigger order will be automatically cancelled and the money returned to your Wallet (if a trigger buy).

There’s no way to confirm when (or if) your order will fill, and it’s possible that your shares will be bought or sold at a higher or lower price than the trigger price.

Stop loss and trigger buy orders may be cancelled by our executing broker in certain circumstances, including where an investment is subject to a corporate action such as a dividend, share split or consolidation, or for other reasons at their discretion.