Market Hours & Order Queueing

Queued for the open

When a signal arrives while its market is closed, the trade isn't sent to the broker overnight. It's queued, shown as Queued on the signal's page, and sent automatically when the market opens.

• Each subscription keeps one queued trade per ticker. A newer signal for the same ticker replaces the older queued one.
• cancel signals are never queued: they cancel right away.
• With Auto Submit off, the trade first waits for your approval. The wait for the open starts once you approve it.
• Whether a trade queues depends on its first order. For a flip (close a long, then open a short), the exit's extended-hours setting decides.

Cancelling a queued trade

A queued trade shows a Cancel button in its status on the Trades list and on the signal's page. Cancel it if you no longer want it sent at the open. Nothing has been sent to the broker yet.

Sessions

All times are US Eastern (ET).

Extended hours

Stocks can also trade 4:00–9:30 and 16:00–20:00 ET (to 17:00 on early-close days). Turn on Allow entry extended hours and/or Allow exit extended hours in the subscription, or send "extendedHours": true with signal override allowed.

An order goes out in extended hours only when:

• the broker supports extended hours for stocks (see Broker Support);
• the order type is Market or Limit, with time in force Default, DAY or GTC;
• it's not an entry with a take profit or stop loss attached. Those wait for the regular session.

Outside the regular session, a Market order is sent as a Limit order, because brokers only take limit orders then. It needs a price, from the signal or a quote. If there's neither, it's skipped.

Futures and crypto have no extended-hours setting.