Lightspeed Trader Tip of The Week

Did you know that you can configure a trailing stop custom order to be assigned via Hot Key or Hot Button?

Lightspeed Trader Tip
Written byLightspeed
Published on03 May, 2022

You can easily configure an order with a trail amount which will be based off the Last Traded Price to close a full or portion of a position.

 

  1. Choose Buy or Sell
  2. Select Trailing Stop as the Instruction
  3. Input your desired Trail amount (example here is .10 cents)
  4. Set your desired quantity or closeout amount (example here is for a Full position closeout)


Contact our service desk to enable trailing stop orders.

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