# Market order is slow

**URL:** <https://forums.collective2.com/t/market-order-is-slow/3228>\
**Category:** C2\
**Created:** [September 6, 2007, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/market-order-is-slow/3228 "2007-09-06T10:01:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![PedroPannon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/pedropannon/32/238_2.png) [@PedroPannon](https://forums.collective2.com/u/PedroPannon)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/market-order-is-slow/3228/1 "2007-09-06T10:01:11Z")

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The market order executes in 10 or more seconds, that is way too slow. I wouldn’t mind let’s say 3 seconds delay, but in 10 I get a full ES points worse fill, than when I pressed the button…

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**Author:** ![MatthewKlein](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/matthewklein/32/21382_2.png) [@MatthewKlein](https://forums.collective2.com/u/MatthewKlein)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/market-order-is-slow/3228/2 "2007-09-06T11:03:11Z")

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If there’s a particular order you want me to look at, please tell me the system and which specific signal it was. - MK

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**Author:** ![PedroPannon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/pedropannon/32/238_2.png) [@PedroPannon](https://forums.collective2.com/u/PedroPannon)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/market-order-is-slow/3228/3 "2007-09-06T11:13:56Z")

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Pretty much every order is slow. Half of the trades executes 5 seconds or more and the other half takes 10 seconds.  
  
 Quite often I even get the note that my order got lined up at the execution engine and will be filled soon. Now, that is with a market order…

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**Author:** ![PedroPannon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/pedropannon/32/238_2.png) [@PedroPannon](https://forums.collective2.com/u/PedroPannon)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/market-order-is-slow/3228/4 "2007-09-13T10:14:50Z")

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Whatever you did Matt since yesterday, don’t change it, because suddenly I am getting instant fills on my market orders!

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**Author:** ![MatthewKlein](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/matthewklein/32/21382_2.png) [@MatthewKlein](https://forums.collective2.com/u/MatthewKlein)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/market-order-is-slow/3228/5 "2007-09-13T10:19:35Z")

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Ah, so you noticed. Thanks. Yes, I have done some rejiggering on the server and I, too, have noticed a big improvement in order-processing speeds.

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**Author:** ![LewPayne](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/lewpayne/32/238_2.png) [@LewPayne](https://forums.collective2.com/u/LewPayne)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/market-order-is-slow/3228/6 "2007-09-13T12:54:07Z")

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I’m glad to hear you got to the bottom of this. This delay made auto-trading day-trading systems (some of which round-turn within a minute or two) impractical.