Plain-English Definition
What it means
Execution is the actual completion of an order in the market or through the relevant trading venue.
Order Lab Topic
Execution
Learn the order concept, apply the review habit, and complete the topic quiz to update your lab mastery score.
Order Protection
What it protects
It protects trading accuracy by separating order entry from completed fill. An entered order is not the same as an executed order.
Mechanics
How it works
Check order status, filled quantity, average price, remaining quantity, venue behavior, and whether execution matched the instruction.
Order Context
How it shows up
A learner sees an order submitted and assumes it is done. The correct move is to verify fill status.
Review Action
What to do
Confirm execution status before reporting results or taking follow-up action.
Common Mistakes
What to avoid
- Submitting before every ticket field is checked.
- Confusing order entry with execution.
- Promising a fill, price, cancellation, or correction before the system confirms it.
- Ignoring partial fills, rejected orders, timing rules, or open-order status.
Order Review Frame
Check the order before you react
A clean order review separates instruction, ticket, status, execution, and record. The learner should be able to say what the client wanted, what was entered, what the system shows, what has already happened, and what action is still available.
Topic Checklist
Before you mark this complete
- Define the order concept in plain English.
- Confirm account, authority, symbol, side, quantity, price condition, and time rule.
- Identify whether the order is pending, open, filled, partially filled, canceled, rejected, or expired.
- Separate client instruction from system result.
- Choose whether to continue, wait, cancel, replace, document, or escalate.
Ready Check
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