Each subscription is either automatic or manual. Automatic routes the order as soon as the signal clears those checks — the account's lock, its trading window and its age limit for signals. Manual parks it and waits for you.
- 1The signal is parkedIt is recorded as pending rather than routed.
- 2The count appearsThe number beside Strategies in the sidebar is how many orders are waiting for you.
- 3You submit or discardSubmit routes it as it stands. Discard drops it. Both are final. While the account is locked or the kill switch is on, Submit of an entry is refused and the order stays parked; an exit still goes through. Pressing the kill switch discards every order that is parked at that moment — see The kill switch.
- 4If it may have gone throughA submitted order that went through in part, or that the broker never confirmed, is taken out of the queue instead of waiting for another click — sending the same size again could double it. The log says which. Pressing Submit twice sends it once.
A parked order is not a resting order
The market keeps moving while it waits. Manual mode is for supervising a new strategy, not for holding a signal until it looks better.