Reliable, rapid execution 

How a trade gets executed depends on the market you’re trading and the derivative you’re using to trade it. But essentially, when you confirm your trade, we’ll instantly check whether your specified price is still available. 

Once we’ve confirmed that we can execute your order according to your specifications, we’ll let you know that the trade is live in our platform. Over 99% of the time, this will happen in less than a second. 

Learn more about the platforms you can trade on with StoneX Trading. 

With StoneX Trading, the average trade will execute in just 0.05 seconds – that’s the time between us receiving your order and opening the trade on your behalf. We execute 99.83% of trades in less than one second, and 99.99% of all trades are processed successfully. 

Slippage is when an order is executed at a worse price than where you specified. If you place a buy order in the UK 100 at 10,500, but it executes at 10,502, for example, slippage has occurred – because you’ve bought the underlying market at a higher price than your order. 

Slippage can occur in fast-moving markets, when prices move beyond the level you can see on our platform before we’re able to execute your order. There are a few different ways of limiting the risk of slippage in your trading, including using limit orders or guaranteed stop loss orders. 

Learn more about the types of orders you can use when trading.