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Buying and selling shares

How do I buy and sell shares on Stake?

  1. Log into your Stake account 

  2. Find the security you’re interested in 

  3. Select Buy 

  4. Choose your order type, the number of shares or dollar amount and your desired price (if applicable)

  5. Review your order 
  6. Submit your order by following the prompts

How to sell shares

  1. Log into your Stake account 

  2. Find the security in your Holdings 

  3. Select Sell 

  4. Choose your order type, the number of shares or dollar amount and your desired price (if applicable)

  5. Review your order 

  6. Submit your order by following the prompts

Before you place an order

Before trading, it’s important to understand a few basics:

  • You must have enough Buying Power available to place a buy order
  • Brokerage fees and foreign exchange (FX) fees may apply depending on the market and product
  • Orders may remain pending until matching buyers or sellers are found on market
  • Some securities may become temporarily sell-only or unavailable for trading
  • Market hours differ between Stake AUS and Wall St

How to check your order status

You can monitor your orders in the app or on web by navigating to your Orders section.

Common order statuses include:

Status Meaning
Pending / Open Your order is waiting to execute
Partially filled Part of your order has executed
Filled Your order has completed
Cancelled Your order has been cancelled
Rejected Your order could not be accepted

Amending or cancelling an order

Open orders may be amended or cancelled before execution completes.

Depending on the order type and market conditions:

  • only certain fields may be editable
  • partially filled orders may have limited amendment options
  • some amendments may be rejected if no details were changed

If an order has already fully executed, it cannot be cancelled or amended.


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