| ALL or NON (AON) - a directive to execute an order in it's entirety or not at all. |
| Day Order or Good for Day - if the order can not be executed as directed, it expires at the end of day. |
| Do Not Reduce (DNR) - this
type of order prevents the exchange from reducing the price on the ex-dividend date. ( stock prices are generally reduced by the amount of the dividend ). |
| Good-Till-Canceled (GTC) - the order remains active until it is executed or canceled by the trader. |
| Limit Order - an order to buy or sell a stock at a specific price ( limit ) or better. |
| Market order - an order to buy or sell at the current market price when it is traded. |
| Open order - an unexecuted order that is still pending. The same thing as a GTC order. |
| Partial Fill order - an instruction to spread the execution over a period of days. |
| Stop order - the order
becomes a Market Order only when the Stop price is hit. The order will be filled only AFTER the Stop price has been hit. |
| Stop-Limit order - this is
triggered to execute in the same manner as a Stop order, but will NOT fill trade at a price in less value than the Limit order. |