Order Type

Limit Order Limit Order allows your order matching only at the input price. The unfilled Limit Order will be put in the price queue of the input price.
Enhanced Limit Order Enhanced Limit Order allows your order matching up to 10 price queues at a time provided that the traded price is not worse than the input price. The unfilled Enhanced Limit Order will be converted to Limit Order and put in the price queue of input price. The default setting in our Online / Mobile Banking is "Enhanced Limit Order".
Special Limit Order Special Limit Order allows your order matching up to maximum 10 price queues at a time provided that the traded price is not worse than the input price. A Special Limit Order has no restriction on the input price as long as the order input price is at or below the best bid price for a sell order or at or above the best ask price for a buy order. Any unfilled Special Limit Order will be cancelled by the market immediately after matching.
At Auction Limit Order At-auction Limit Order is a limit order with a specified price of which the input is allowed only during Pre-opening session, The Bank only accept the At-auction Limit Order with input price that does not deviate 200 spreads or 9 times from the prevailing nominal price or previous closing price (whichever is lower), The unfilled At-auction Limit Order in Pre-opening session will be converted to Limit Order at the input limit price and carried forward to the continuous trading session.
Stop Loss Order A Stop Loss Order will only be carried out during Continuous Trading Session on a trading day.
The Stop Loss Price and the Lowest Selling Price could only be specified within the price ranges determined by the Bank.
A Stop Loss Order will only be triggered if the nominal price of the relevant stock is equal to or lower than the specified Stop Loss Price during trading hour on the relevant trading day. Please be reminded that the Stop Loss Order may be fully executed, partially executed or unexecuted by one time at a price not lower than the Lowest Selling Price on the relevant trading day. Market conditions may make it impossible to execute your Stop Loss Order.
Regardless of the final execution result (partially executed or unexecuted) at the end of a trading day, the Stop Loss Order will lapse and be cancelled at the end of that trading day.
Market Order Please note that Market Order cannot be amended or cancelled after the order is placed.
A Market Order shall only be given to the Bank during Continuous Trading Session on a trading day.
Market order is an order which you do not set a limit price. Such order will be executed at prevailing market price at time of execution. Please be reminded that the executed price may deviate (mildly, significantly or dramatically) from your expected price due to market fluctuation.
The Bank will submit your Market Order to the market (in a number of tranches) for auto-matching and execution by matching it up to a maximum of 30 spreads from the prevailing nominal price (as the case may be). Any unfilled quantity of your market order will be automatically cancelled.


Order Status

Order Status Explanation
Received The order is received by the bank, and pending for submission to the Market/Exchange.
Queued The order has been submitted to the market and pending for execution in the Market/Exchange.
Partially Executed The order has been partially filled. Please go to “Order Status / History” or “Portfolio” page to view the execution records.
Executed The order has been fully filled.
Rejected The order has been rejected by the Market/Exchange. You can call our Hotline for the reject reason of your order.
Cancelled The order has been cancelled successfully in the Market/Exchange according to your instruction.


Remarks:

1. For “Amend” or “Cancel” instruction, the original order status and details will be shown (i.e. “Received”, “Queued” or “Partially Executed”)
if the order amendment or cancellation instruction is still pending for execution in the market.
2. For “Cancel” instruction submitted between 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., the order status will be updated after 9:30 a.m.
For more details, please visit HKEx website at:
https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/global/faq/securities%20market.htm