Sending Trades from the Investment Management Trade Desk tab is a straightforward process but contains a number of options and a significant amount of information presented. Use these tools to ensure you are sending your trades in the most optimal manner.

For an overview of all the functions of the Trade Desk tab, see Trade Desk Overview for details.

Sending Equity Trades from the Trade Desk

To send trades from Investment Management > Trade Desk > Equity Trades:

1. Navigate to the Equity Trades sub-tab of the Trade desk.
2. Check for any flagged trades (see Trade Desk Overview > Equity Trades > Flags for full details).
3. Each trade is for one symbol, and can contain multiple accounts. You can inspect each symbol trade prior to sending; customizing the included accounts and changing the Trade Routing if needed:
1. Click an individual trade to bring up the Select Account Trades to Send dialog.
2. Deselect any accounts you do not want included in the trade.
3. Set the Trade Routing type. The trader is responsible for setting the correct routing type. See below for Routing Type definitions.
4. Click Send # of # Account Trades when your selections are made.
4. Trades that do not need individual attention can be selected together using the checkboxes in the grid rows, or an entire page selected at once from the top left checkbox.
1. Set the Trade Routing type. The trader is responsible for setting the correct routing type. See below for Routing Type definitions.
2. Click Send # of # Trades when your selections are made.

Sending Mutual Fund Trades from the Trade Desk

To send trades from Investment Management > Trade Desk > Mutual Fund Trades:

1. Navigate to the Mutual Fund Trades sub-tab of the Trade desk.
2. Check for any flagged trades (see Trade Desk Overview > Equity Trades > Flags for full details).
3. Each trade is for one symbol and one account. Select the trades to send using the checkboxes in the grid rows, or select an entire page at once from the top left checkbox.
1. Set the Trade Routing type. The trader is responsible for setting the correct routing type. See below for Routing Type definitions.
2. Click Submit when your selections are made.

Trade Routing Types

The following trade routing types are available for selection:

• STP: Straight Through Processing
• This order leaves the system, goes to Co-Pilot, and out to the custodian as a market order.
• Trades that are sent STP can still be stopped in the Trade Compliance Engine (TCE) for review.
• HTE: High Touch Execution
• This order leaves the system, goes to CoPilot, and lands on the Staged Blotter. From there, the order can be modified a number of different ways (i.e. market not held, limit, etc.) before it is sent to the custodian for execution.
• Manual: Manually processed at custodian
• This process is used if the trader needs to bypass electronically sending the trade to the custodian.
• Once a trade is submitted as Manual, it is moved to “Manual Working” status and can no longer be routed to a custodian electronically.
• A Manual trade must be executed by calling in the order to the custodian.
• The trader can then use the Manual order to extract the allocations, and then “fill” the Manual working order so that the trade posts to the trade records.