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Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) : Quick Links

The document discusses Interactive Brokers' Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) orders, which allow customers to purchase large blocks of a stock at the average price of trades in that stock over the course of the trading day. VWAP orders are calculated based on all transactions from a cutoff time until market close. Interactive Brokers offers VWAP orders with cutoff times every minute from market open to close. The order will be executed at the next minute's VWAP price. VWAP orders cannot be cancelled once accepted and have daily volume limits.

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Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) : Quick Links

The document discusses Interactive Brokers' Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) orders, which allow customers to purchase large blocks of a stock at the average price of trades in that stock over the course of the trading day. VWAP orders are calculated based on all transactions from a cutoff time until market close. Interactive Brokers offers VWAP orders with cutoff times every minute from market open to close. The order will be executed at the next minute's VWAP price. VWAP orders cannot be cancelled once accepted and have daily volume limits.

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Volume Weighted

Average Price (VWAP)


P R O D U C T H I G H L I G H T S

Interactive Brokers • The Choice of Professional Stock Traders


Quick Links†
To assist customers in reducing execution risk, IB supports guaranteed Volume
Available Products Weighted Average Price (VWAP) orders for large cap stocks. The VWAP for a
• Trading/Product Listings/ stock is calculated by adding the dollars traded for every transaction in
VWAPs that stock ("price" x "number of shares traded") and dividing by the total
shares traded.
Commissions
• Fees/Commissions/Stock A VWAP is computed from a cut-off time to the market close, and is calculated
ETFs and Warrants by volume weighting all transactions during this time period. VWAP prices are
computed by Bloomberg, displayed after market close, and are guaranteed to
Margin be executed.
• Trading/Margin/Stocks
VWAP cut-off times are every minute from market open to market close. A
† Link names are the navigation VWAP order will automatically be submitted for the next minute cut-off. TWS
sequence through the IB will automatically submit your VWAP order for the next minute cut-off, or you
website menu bar located at can elect a different cut-off time using the Time in Force dropdown field. VWAP
the top of every IB web page. orders will be accepted up until 30 minutes before the market close. Any VWAP
order accepted after that time and up until one minute before the open will be
applied to the market open cut-off.

VWAP sell orders entered at any time and VWAP buy orders entered before the
market open cut-off will be accepted for all available minute VWAP stocks dis-
played on our website. VWAP buy orders entered after the market open cut-off
will only be accepted for symbols on the short sell list available on our website.

VWAP order size limits are the lesser of 8% of the average daily volume of the
symbol or the amounts in the table below. The limit is applied against the
accumulated order size for a symbol during the trading day. Long and short
executions will be netted.

VWAP Time Millions $


before 9:30 10
9:30 - 10:00 9
10:00 - 10:30 8
10:30 - 11:00 7.5
11:00 - 11:30 7
11:30 - 12:00 6.5
12:00 - 12:30 6
12:30 - 13:00 5.5
13;00 - 13:30 5
13:30 - 14:00 4.5
14:00 - 14:30 4
14:30 - 15:00 3

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Volume Weighted
Average Price (VWAP)
P R O D U C T H I G H L I G H T S

VWAP Example

You want to buy 500,000


shares of large cap stock
XYZ. At 9:00 a.m. you enter
the order and select VWAP
as the order type. The order
destination is automatically
changed to VWAP and
prices are no longer dis-
played. After the market
closes, the VWAP order with
the executing price is
available via the Executions
window.

PLEASE NOTE that once your VWAP order is accepted you CANNOT CANCEL YOUR ORDER. There are important differences
between VWAP transactions and ordinary trades. For more information and to learn about applicable limitations go to:
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/vwapNotice.php?ib_entity=llc

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