I. INTRODUCTION
EzStopLoss is an instrument enabling customers to place an order in advance to sell securities to lock in profit, or stop loss, or to purchase at a predetermined price. Using this service, customers can place buy/sell orders at predefined conditions. When expected stocks reach predefined prices, the orders will be automatically activated by the FPTS system before being forwarded to the stock exchanges.
II. SCOPE OF APPLICATION
EzStopLoss is available for customers registering to use the FPTS EzTrade Online Trading Service.
III. GENERAL REGULATIONS
- Stop-Loss orders will be activated when they satisfy following criteria at the same time:
· Reference prices of the stocks satisfy conditions predefined by customers;
· Predefined prices are in the range from the floor to the ceiling prices.
- Customers can places Stop-Loss orders at anytime but their orders will be only checked and verified by the FPTS system when it is open for regular online trading orders (usually at 7:00 p.m. of the preceding trade date).
- The order will be executed only once and be voided after three months dating from the date of placing the order. This means that after the order is activated but, for any reason, the order is not matched as predefined conditions, the predefined order is annulled.
- The predefined order can be cancelled before it is activated. After it is activated by the FPTS system, it will be treated as regular buy/sell orders and customers can modify/cancel it (if not fully matched).
Order-activating conditions and predefined prices will not be adjusted in case stock prices are adjusted on ex-date.
IV. INSTRUCTIONS TO EZSTOPLOSS SERVICE
1. Place an EzStopLoss order
- Log in EzTrade
- Select menu "Special Transaction" and then "Place orders":
- A pop-up window will turn up. Select Buy or Sell, securities symbol, quantity, order-activating conditions, and prices.
- Click Register to continue or click Cancel to cancel the order.
- Enter the transaction password for the registered order
- Check the Status column to check whether the order is placed successfully or not.
Note:
· For HOSE-listed securities, customers can choose LO (limit order) with predetermined prices, ATO order, ATC order, or set upper limit price or lower limit price.
· For HNX and UPCoM-listed securities, customers can choose LO orders with predetermined prices or set upper limit price or lower limit price.
· If the upper limit (ceiling) price is chosen, the system will take the upper limit price of the defined date when the order is activated. Similarly, the system will take the lower limit price (floor) of the defined date when the order is activated if you set lower limit price.
· The order is activated when the predefined price matches conditions.
Example:
A customer currently holds 5,000 shares of FPT Corporation and the market share price is VND70,000. He can place a sell order to lock in profit or stop loss or a buy order as follows.
· Order 1 (Profit-taking): Sell 5,000 FPT, price: VND77,000, conditions: Reference price equals or exceeds VND76,000
· Order 2 (Stop loss): Sell 5,000 FPT at ATO price, conditions: Reference price is equal to or lower than VND63,000
· Order 3 (Buy): Buy 5,000 FPT at VND56,000; conditions: Reference price is from VND56,000 downwards
The above orders will be activated whenever a condition is met. The validity is three months.
2. Query
- Log in EzTrade.
- Select “Special Transaction”/StopLoss Order History
- Choose the time for checking; click Update to finish
3. Order cancellation
- Orders which are not activated can be cancelled. Please navigate StopLoss Order History
- Orders which have been activated but not matched can be modified or cancelled as ordinary orders.