Automated orders

Automated orders – set your best or worst case rate

Automated orders are a way to make your currency trade at the time the exchange rate hits your chosen level. You choose a rate with your Currency Consultant and the currency exchange will go through automatically when it hits your desired rate.

✔ Protect and improve your exchange rate
✔  Flexible – can be modified or cancelled
✔  Monitored by professionals – 24/7
✔  Free of charge

Take the hassle away from your currency exchange

If you’re buying a property abroad, making international investments, or running a business, you will probably have a thousand other things on your mind; exchanging currency may be at the bottom of a long list. We appreciate you don’t have the time to think about that – let alone enough time to monitor exchange rates – but we’re here to take care of that for you. Automated orders keep you in control of your currency exchange.

How do Automated orders work?

This type of currency trade is popular because they allow you to take advantage of currency volatility without having to monitor the exchange rates all the time. They can help you use currency volatility to your advantage; protecting you against losses from a worsening exchange rate movement and maximising your money when the rate is good.

They are “good till cancelled”, so they sit in the market until the exchange rate is triggered, or until you cancel the order. Alternatively, the Automated order can be set with an expiry date.

24/7 control and peace of mind

Automated orders can be can used for both Spot and Forward trades. Operating 24 hours a day, your currency will be automatically bought or sold if your pre-determined exchange rate is achieved. They provide significant advantages over your bank’s limited opening hours and inflexible solutions. Automated orders can also be modified or cancelled prior to the transaction taking place.

By using Automated currency orders, you can be confident that the exchange rates that matter to you are monitored at all times, your money is protected, and you will not miss any exchange rate opportunities.

What types of Automated orders can you use?

We offer three types of Automated orders.

Limit orderStop loss ordersCombination

Limit orders

- Control: buy and sell at the rate you want
- Certainty: currency professionals monitoring the exchange rates for you 24/7
- Flexibility: you can modify or cancel your order at any time

A Limit order enables you to target a better exchange rate than is available at the time of placing the order. It is an instruction to buy or sell currency at a predetermined ‘best case’ exchange rate, which if achieved, will go through automatically. By exchanging at a better exchange rate, you will receive more currency for your money.

Stop loss orders

- Protection against exchange rate losses
- Budgeting control: provide a minimum exchange rate you can budget against
- Professional guidance: rates monitored by professionals - 24/7
- Flexibility: your order can be modified or cancelled if needed

A Stop loss order enables you to protect yourself against the exchange rate moving against you. It is an instruction to buy or sell currency at a predetermined ‘worst case’ exchange rate, which, if achieved, will complete your instruction automatically.

Combining Limit and Stop loss orders

You get greater control over exchange rate uncertainty by using both Limit and Stop loss orders together. By setting both upper and lower exchange rate levels, you control the range within which the currency can move, providing you with a guaranteed exchange rate and making your currency trades far more predictable.

This helps you to budget more effectively, protects your money from exchange rate movements that are not in your favour and maximises your money when the exchange rate moves in a more positive direction.

Settling your payment when using Automated currency orders

If you have instructed us to try to achieve a target exchange rate with automated Stop Loss and/or Limit Orders, then we don’t require any funds from you until your Automated currency order has been achieved. (If you are a non-UK based resident, a deposit may be required – please ask your Currency Consultant.) If your exchange rate is achieved, we’ll contact you to discuss the details of your trade and settlement procedures and will send you a Trade Confirmation.

Find out more about how this could work for you today –
get in touch with a qualified Halo Currency Consultant.

How automated orders work in practice

Example One

This fictitious example shows how Stop loss orders could be placed into the market so that they go through when the best rate can be achieved.

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Example 2

In this example, the currency market is falling, so the Stop loss order trades before the rate falls, saving the client from currency losses.