Log in to myDavy and go to the trading section

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When you click on the Trading tab, the trading page is displayed where you see MyWatchlist/Alerts, My Orders, My Holdings and Cash Account Balances.

To sell shares in a company that you already hold shares in

The shares that you currently hold are listed on the trading page. To trade a share/stock that you currently hold, click the Sell button. This will enter the name into the Share Name field, and you can proceed to choosing the type of order you wish to place.

Once you have selected your shares, the indicative price and the currency are displayed

The indicative price is an initial estimate of the price based on the last recorded trading price of the shares. This is provided for information purposes only, as the reporting of market prices is delayed by 20 minutes. This price is not guaranteed, and the quote that you receive for the shares will probably differ from the indicative price.

The currency that the share is traded in is displayed beside the Indicative Price, and beside the price that you will set for the shares.

The number of shares available for you to sell is displayed in the quantity field

If you want to sell your full holding of the selected stock, do not edit this number.

If you want to sell only a portion of your holding of this stock, enter the number of shares that you want to sell.

Order type: Limit or quote?

You now need to choose the type of order you want to place.
 

Quote order

A quote order is a quote on the highest price that these particular shares are available to trade at through myDavy. You can decide whether to accept the quote and deal at the quoted price, or reject the quote. If you reject the quote, your order will not be placed.

Quote orders are only available on myDavy for Irish and UK stocks during market hours. For all other markets and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), you will have to select “place limit order”.

Limit order

A Limit Order means that when you place an order, you set the lowest price that you are willing to take for the shares at this time. You must set a time limit on the order, known as the duration.
 

Your duration choices are:

  • “Good for Today Only”:  your order expires once the Market closes. If you input the order after market close for the relevant Exchange, the order will be treated as Good for Next day and will expire when the market closes the next day.
  • “Good Until Friday Week”: If you input your order 'Good until Friday week', your order expires Friday of the following week.

If you wish to place a quote order:

  • Enter the number of shares that you would like to sell
  • Choose your settlement currency
  • Click Request Quote

Settlement currency

The currency that you wish to receive payment in.

Quickly review the quote

Once you place your quote order, you will have 10 seconds to accept or reject the quote. In this time, you must review the quote and choose to accept or reject the quote.

Accept the quote

If you accept the quote, your order will be placed on the market at once.

Reject the quote

If you reject the quote, your order will not be placed. You can either cancel the order and return to the Trade Shares page, or choose to place a limit order.

If the quote expires

If you neither accept nor reject the quote within 10 seconds, the quote will expire. At this point you can cancel the transaction and return to the Trade Shares page, or choose to place a limit order for the shares.
 

If you wish to place a limit order:

  1. Enter the lowest price that you are willing to take for the shares at this time.

  2. Enter the number of shares that you would like to buy.

  3. You can choose the Quantity OR Net Value (in settlement currency) of what you wish to buy.

  4. Choose your duration: Good for Today Only or Good Until Friday Week (explanation of duration).

  5. Choose your settlement currency.

  6. Click Calculate to see a breakdown of the charges on the trade. Calculate allows you to see how much each trade will cost or recoup for you. It gives you a breakdown of the charges on the trade in both the settlement currency and the transaction currency. The settlement currency figures are an estimate, as a currency deal may be required.

  7. If you are happy to proceed with the trade, click on Preview Order to review the details of your order before placing it.

Preview order

On the Preview Order page you can review the details of your order.

  • If you are happy with the order and want to proceed, click Place Order.
  • If you would like to change the details of your order, click Edit Order to return to the Trade Shares page and change your order.
  • If you have changed your mind and do not want to complete the trade, click Cancel Order.

View open orders

Once your order has been placed:

  • Click on the Trading Dashboard
  • In the My Orders section, you can view Open, Executed, Cancelled and Expired orders.

    Open orders are those currently working in the market and which have yet to be dealt in the market. Open orders can be valid for up to 14 days inclusive of weekends. Open orders include those partially executed where the order is partially dealt but not completely executed, or the order can be partially executed but where the remainder of the order is pending cancellation.
    You can chose to Cancel Order in the Open order section.

Confirmation of trade

If you have signed up to receive confirmation of your trades via email (My Profile section), you will receive an email when your trades have execute