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Enhanced Web Trading: Risk Management

Monitor positions with real-time streaming updates and create advanced conditional orders and alerts, including trailing stops and brackets.

Conditional Orders and Alerts

Conditional Orders and Alerts

  • Help protect profits before the order has been placed using a variety of conditional criteria.
  • Platform alerts notify you when certain market conditions are met.
  • When you're offline, you can choose to have orders placed automatically.

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Bracket Orders

Bracket Orders

  • Enter brackets and special conditions on trade orders at the same time and in the same menu.
  • Use brackets to easily add a profit exit, trailing stop exit, or stop loss exit before the order is placed.

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Trailing Stops

Trailing Stops

Trailing stops for stocks and options allow you to potentially let your profits run while cutting losses at the same time.

  • Trigger prices automatically readjust when a security makes gains or experiences losses.

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*Free trades expire 180 days after account approval, up to 250 trades total.  Applies to base online equity, ETF, and option commissions only. Option per-contract and foreign transaction fees still apply. To qualify, call 888-245-6864 and commit to making a minimum of 36 online equity or options trades per year and deposit $50,000. Other commission-free trade offers may be available if you deposit less than $50,000 -- call 888-245-6864 for terms. Commission-free trades will be assigned following determination of eligibility by Schwab. Account and assets deposited must be new to Schwab. Assets transferred from optionsXpress, Inc. or other Schwab affiliates are excluded. Current Schwab clients and households are not eligible. Offer valid until 12/31/2012. Offer is nontransferable, limited to one per household, and may not be combined with other offers. Accounts ineligible for this offer include, without limitation: 401(k), 403(b), Custodial, 529 Plan and Estate accounts.  Only trades placed through Schwab.com, Schwab trading platform applications and Schwab Wireless are eligible for free trades. No credit will be given for unexecuted trades. Domestic, nonprofessional accounts only. Schwab, Schwab-affiliated, broker-dealer and exchange employees are not eligible. Other exceptions may apply. Schwab reserves the right to restrict this offer at any time.

Schwab’s StreetSmart tools are available for Schwab Active Trading clients. To qualify as a Schwab Active Trading client, you must commit to making a minimum of 36 online equity or options trades per year. Call 888-245-6864 to qualify. Access to Nasdaq TotalView® quotes is provided for free to non-professional clients who have made 120 or more equity and options trades in the last 12 months, or 30 or more equity and options trades in either the current or previous quarter, or who maintain $1 million or more in household balances at Schwab. Schwab Active Trading clients who do not meet these requirements can subscribe to Nasdaq TotalView quotes for a quarterly fee. Professional clients may be required to meet additional criteria before obtaining a subscription to Nasdaq TotalView quotes. This offer may be subject to additional restrictions or fees, and may be changed at any time. The speed and performance of streaming data may vary depending on your modem speed and ISP connection. Access to electronic services may be limited or unavailable during periods of peak demand, market volatility, systems upgrades or maintenance, or for other reasons.

Options carry a high level of risk and are not suitable for all investors. Certain requirements must be met to trade options. Multiple-leg options strategies will involve multiple commissions. Please read the Options Disclosure Document titled Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options before considering any option transaction.

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