By default your trading is open to quickly place and remove orders but should you decide to take a break and prevent any miss clicks there is a platform wide lock on trading by navigating to the upper right of your toolbar and finding the Lock icon
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Once pressed the icon will go from white to Red and a message should appear below it to confirm
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Hovering back over the red icon will highlight the red Lock icon and will display you’ll be able to unlock when pressed
![](https://b3421171.smushcdn.com/3421171/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-55.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Clicking into the red Lock icon will unlock across your platform the ability to once more place trades confirmed by a message below the icon to confirm
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Navigating to the upper right of your DOM and Charts we have similar functionality though this will only lock trading from that specific DOM or Chart
![](https://b3421171.smushcdn.com/3421171/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-58.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
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