# Execution lag/delay at start of trading?

**URL:** <https://community.trading212.com/t/execution-lag-delay-at-start-of-trading/4215>\
**Category:** 🤝 Help\
**Created:** [April 10, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/execution-lag-delay-at-start-of-trading/4215 "2020-04-10T08:47:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Brian](https://community.trading212.com/u/Brian)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/execution-lag-delay-at-start-of-trading/4215/1 "2020-04-10T08:47:33Z")

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Each day at 14:30 when the US stock market opens orders seem to take forever to execute…  
A couple of days ago I tried to purchase Walmart: after about 2 minutes, when the stock was $2 higher my purchase order was still sat in Pending. I cancelled it.  
Each day, I notice this happen, orders are taking wayyyy longer than later in the day.  
Does anyone else experience this problem? Is there any solutions?

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**Author:** ![Vedran](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/vedran/32/182_2.png) [@Vedran](https://community.trading212.com/u/Vedran)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/execution-lag-delay-at-start-of-trading/4215/2 "2020-04-10T09:14:28Z")

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Using Limit buy solves the issue 🙂 Problem however this days is price jumps 5-10% right on open, so I don’t even try to buy on green days.

But anyway using limit buys, which you can set in advance , you avoid traffic jam which happens on market open.

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**Author:** ![Brian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Brian](https://community.trading212.com/u/Brian)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/execution-lag-delay-at-start-of-trading/4215/3 "2020-04-10T11:39:28Z")

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Thanks for the reply and advice, shame you cannot use these with Fractional shares yet: I’m still learning so not investing big amounts 😕

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**Author:** ![Vedran](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/vedran/32/182_2.png) [@Vedran](https://community.trading212.com/u/Vedran)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/execution-lag-delay-at-start-of-trading/4215/4 "2020-04-10T12:02:45Z")

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It should happen in next major release due in April. Along with many other great features.

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