Plain-English Definition
What it means
Routing is the process of sending an order to a venue, market center, internal system, or execution pathway.
Order Lab Topic
Routing
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 execution quality by making the learner consider how the order reaches the market.
Mechanics
How it works
Review order type, venue behavior, liquidity, price improvement possibility, market hours, and best execution considerations.
Order Context
How it shows up
A client asks why the fill differed from a quote. Routing and market condition may be part of the answer.
Review Action
What to do
Check routing status, execution report, and order conditions before explaining the result.
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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