Post Trade Allocation

Instructions

The Post-Trade Allocation tool lists all the day's unallocated trades, and provides customizable template-based functionality to easily allocate all or some of your trades to multiple pre-approved clearing brokers.

Post-Trade Allocation offers the following benefits:

  • Allocate trades any time of day:
    • Up until 6:00pm ET for equities.
    • Up until 15 minutes after the allocation was made (or 5:15 PM ET, whichever comes first) for options.
  • View and select average price trades by order and combine multiple orders into a custom average price.

  • Allocate by percentage or share size.

  • Configure allocation settings and display preferences and broker settings.

To use this tool, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Trade tab followed by Post Trade Allocation.

    • Alternatively, click Menu in the top left corner > Trade > Post Trade Allocation

  2. Select the accounts from the left side.

  3. View client account information in the columns on the right side.

    • Select Configuration in the top right corner to configure the layout.

    • Select Allocation Summary to see a summary of allocations.

    • Select Unconfirmed Allocations to view any unconfirmed allocations.

  4. Select the Allocate button at the bottom of the page.

    Image of the post trade allocation panel in portal.

 

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