Plain-English Definition
What it means
Time in force controls how long an order remains active before it expires or is canceled by rule.
Order Lab Topic
Time in Force
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 order intent by matching the order duration to the client’s timing goal.
Mechanics
How it works
Review day, good-till-canceled, immediate-or-cancel, fill-or-kill, extended-hours, and any platform-specific limits.
Order Context
How it shows up
A client expects an order to remain open, but it expires at the end of the day. The learner should identify the time condition.
Review Action
What to do
Confirm duration, expiration behavior, trading session, and whether the client wants the order monitored.
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
Complete this short quiz to save your score on this device and update your Order Lab progress. Scores are stored in this browser, so clearing site data or switching devices may reset them.
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