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Risks of
After Hours Trading
There are unique risks associated with trading in securities
at times that are outside the ordinary trading hours for the
exchange(s) ("Extended Hours Trading"). Customers must
familiarize themselves with these risks and determine
whether Extended-Hours Trading is appropriate in light of
their objectives and experience. Customers are responsible
for familiarizing themselves with the hours of the relevant
markets upon which they trade and for determining when to
place orders for particular securities, how they wish to
direct those orders, and what types of orders to use. NWT
Financial Groups’ offer of Extended Hours Trading does not
constitute a recommendation or conclusion that Extended
Hours Trading will be successful or appropriate for all
customers or traders.
During Extended
Hours Trading, NWT Financial Group may provide quotations
from and execute Customer trades through various Electronic
Communications Networks ("ECNs"), exchanges or other trading
systems. Quotations provided during Extended Hours Trading
may be different than quotations provided during exchange
trading hours. There may not always be a current quotation
for every security, and a quotation may represent only a
single market participant that is ready to trade a limited
quantity of a security at a particular price. Prices and
available quantities may be less favorable in Extended Hours
Trading and prices may fluctuate more widely. The bid-ask
spread may be wider during Extended Hours Trading because of
lower liquidity and higher volatility.
News stories,
earnings and other company press releases and other
information may be released during Extended Hours Trading
and may cause increased price volatility. Markets may be
substantially less liquid during Extended Hours Trading and
quotations may reflect only the pending orders of other
After-Hours market participants, rather than prices at which
exchange specialists, market makers or other professional
liquidity providers are willing to trade with the public.
Closing prices from the regular market session can and often
are different from the prices quoted during the extended
hours market sessions. Therefore prices received in the
extended hours market sessions may be inferior to prices
during the regular market session.
NWT Financial
Group may not have access to every Extended Hours Market
Center. Thus, the bids and offers displayed by NWT Financial
Groups’ systems may not reflect the best bids and offers
available on every Extended Hours Market Center. The prices
offered and bid in the extended hours market sessions can be
and often are very different from the prices offered during
the regular market session. It is also possible that the
quotations displayed by NWT Financial Group from Extended
Hours Market Centers on which NWT Financial Group can
execute Customer trades may be less favorable than those on
other Extended Hours Trading Centers to which NWT Financial
Group does not have access. Last sale information provided
by NWT Financial Group may not reflect the prices of the
most recent trades on all of the various Extended Hours
Market Centers.
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Pre-market
session orders are accepted from 8:00 am ET to 9:30 am ET
and Post-market session orders are accepted from 4:00 pm
to 6:00 pm ET.
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NWT Financial
Group offers access to the extended hours market sessions
via direct connections to Archipelago ECN ("ARCA") and
Island ECN ("INET").
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Only limit
orders are accepted in the extended hours market sessions,
no other order types will be accepted, such as market,
stop, trailing stop, etc.
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To place an
order during the extended hours sessions, the order must
be placed as a "Day + Extended Hours" order. Additional
ECN charges will be incurred upon any executions in the
extended hours market sessions.
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Orders for
securities that have been halted by either the SEC or the
NASD will not be accepted during the regular market
session nor during the extended hours market sessions.
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The actual
date of a transaction will be the trade date for all
transaction whether in the regular market session or the
extended hours market sessions.
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